wildfires

Summer is slowly fading, but it’s still hot. Especially in North Idaho.

A medida que comienza la temporada de incendios forestales en el estado de Washington, activistas están trabajando para asegurarse de que las personas que solo hablan español reciban información importante durante las emergencias.

As wildfire season begins in Washington state, advocates are working to ensure that people who speak Spanish get important information during emergencies.

Washington state has already declared some areas in drought. There’s not enough snowpack in many areas, and much of it is melting out faster than expected.

(Runtime 1:00)Jaelle Downs was a wilderness ranger for the Cle Elum Ranger District in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. Being out amongst the towering…

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As wildfire season winds down, crews around Washington and Oregon perform prescribed fires.

In the past, if a local fire department needed to use air support from the state, crews had to go through multiple agencies before resources would be deployed. But with legislation that passed unanimously last session, they can now call the resources directly.The legislation — House Bill 1498 — was called a success by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Crews kept most of the state’s fires under 10 acres with initial attack success from air support, according to the department.

Researchers from Idaho and Oregon participated in research to improve the Fire Program Analysis Fire Occurrence Database, or FPA-FOD, which contains historical data on more than two million wildfires in the United States. These improvements might be the key to better predicting wildfires in the Northwest.

Fire crews continue firing wildfires to keep on high alert in the Northwest.