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The wildfire destroyed five structures and cost approximately $46,000 (2021 USD). Another but smaller wildfire, the Wichita County Fire, was contained a day later on December 18 with a burned area of 782 acres (316 ha). The wildfire also destroyed five structures and cost approximately $25,000.
The Kansas fire marshal said a new law has derailed an update to the state fire code. Engholm was referring to House Bill 2648, which became law when the Republican-led House and Senate overrode ...
More than 110 active fires covering 2,800 square miles (7,250 square kilometers) were burning in the U.S. on Friday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Fires are becoming bigger ...
The building served as city hall, fire department, municipal auditorium, and meeting hall for the American Legion. 10 In the early 1980s, the city of Leoti gave the building to the Wichita County Historical Society, which has operated the Museum of the Great Plains out of this building since 1983. Due to its association with the New Deal, this ...
Commander Dave Gesser of the Southwest Area Incident Management Team #5, a multi-agency group, gives an update Thursday, June 20, during a virtual public meeting on the status of two fires burning ...
Leoti was founded in 1885 [4] by a company of men from Garden City, Kansas. Two years later, in 1887, it was involved in the bloodiest county seat fight in the history of the American West . The shoot-out was on February 27, 1887, when men—some [ who? ] say hired gunmen—from Leoti, went to the neighboring, rival town of Coronado and left ...
A Kansas fire marshal said Tuesday he's hopeful that fire crews supported by water-dropping helicopters can control a wood pallet fire at a Kansas recycling center that has been raging for days.
Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, are outlined in red. The first team of firefighters was deployed to the site at 06:16 p.m. The fire was so large that radar sweeps picked it up due to gusty winds. The winds caused the fire to grow rapidly and spread to Kansas. [3] More than one hundred state and local agencies ...