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By 3:06 a.m. on Thursday, December 16, the Four County Fire had reached a burned area of approximately 96,000 acres (39,000 ha) and satellites had detected heat from the wildfire seven miles away near Russell, Kansas. [11] Due to the wildfires and strong winds, 24 out of the 105 counties in Kansas issued local disaster declarations.
Large sections of other Western states, Texas and the Great Plains also have a high rate of properties at risk, as does parts of Florida. You can zoom in and hover over counties on the maps below ...
The winds caused the fire to grow rapidly and spread to Kansas. [3] More than one hundred state and local agencies responded. [1] The firefighting force consisted of 950 firefighters from three counties and two states, and four Natural Guard helicopters. [7] [8] [11] Kansas All Hazards Incident Management team set up a command center in ...
The first counties were established while Kansas was a Territory from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when Kansas became a state. Many of the counties in the eastern part of the state are named after prominent Americans from the late 18th and early-to-mid-19th centuries, while those in the central and western part of the state are named ...
A month-long burn ban begins Saturday in Sedgwick County.
A man and a juvenile died after a house fire in Louisburg, Kansas, Thursday morning, according to fire officials. The fire was reported at 11:01 a.m. Thursday in the 600 block of North 5th Street.
North Central Kansas is a tourism and geographical region of the state of Kansas. It consists of 15 counties, and has a population of over 150,000. The Salina micropolitan area is part of North Central Kansas. The region stretches from the Nebraska border in the north to Russell, Ellsworth, Saline, and Dickinson Counties in the south
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