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The third squad was then called to assist an engine—which was now about 1 ⁄ 4 mile (0.40 km) down the road from the other two squads. Minutes after arriving, the fire began spotting near the road and Squad 3 retreated to the lunch site. Squads 1 and 2 attempted to escape, but were cut off by fire crossing the road. [23]
An extremely critical fire weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for wildfire events in the United States. On the scale from one to three, an extremely critical is a level three; thus, these outlooks are issued only when forecasters at the SPC are confident of extremely dangerous wildfire ...
After dropping his kids off at school around 8:15 a.m. on the day the Palisades fire started, Darrin Hurwitz drove to the area to hike. He did a five-mile loop that took him up above Skull Rock ...
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The South Canyon Fire was a 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1994. It is often also referred to as the "Storm King" fire. It was the subject of John Maclean's book Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire.
Truman C. Everts (c. 1816 – February 16, 1901) was an American government official and explorer who was the first federal tax assessor for the Montana Territory and a member of the 1870 Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition, which explored the area which later became Yellowstone National Park.
The studio zone was formally first established in 1934, originally defined as a 6-mile (9.7 km) radius from Rossmore Avenue and 5th Street. By 1970, the center of the zone became Beverly and La Cienega boulevards in the Beverly Grove, Los Angeles neighborhood, the then-headquarters of the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers ...
The evacuation radius was expanded to 1 mile (1.6 km) in case a second tanker exploded. [2] [4] By 7:00 pm the fires were under control, and a search for additional casualties began. It was later terminated because of visibility problems, but resumed at 5:30 am. on February 25.