Utah Settles With Scouts Over Huge Fire
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By DEBBIE HUMMEL  SALT LAKE CITY - A local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has agreed to pay $330,000 and plant 9,000 tree seedlings to settle a state lawsuit over a wildfire that burned 14,200 acres, officials said.
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Nearly 4,000 firefighters worked in blistering temperatures Saturday to corral a huge complex of fires in rugged wilderness as authorities found a body in a blackened part of the desert.
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OREM, Utah - An unlikely source is to blame for about $12,000 in fire damage to a home. Police speculate Landon Nielsen's pet boa constrictor wrapped itself around a heat lamp inside the cage and pulled the lamp down, which set the cage ablaze.
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Hunters and wildlife officers in Utah killed a black bear Monday believed to be responsible for a fatal attack on an 11-year-old boy on a family camping trip.  The boy was sleeping in one corner of a tent when family members heard him scream around 11 p.m.
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When Wally Danielson's pager started rattling at 4:54 a.m. last Monday to report a fire of an undetermined nature at Hunters Brooke, the volunteer fire chief in Marbury didn't think much of it.
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By Jessica Klipa, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 3--MANATEE -- On the same day that the state issued a heightened wildfire awareness alert, a controlled burn got out of hand in Parrish during a land clearing operation off Mendoza Road.
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Firefighters were in the final stage Sunday of surrounding one of the biggest blazes in state history, which has burned 254 square miles of brush and timber since erupting Labor Day.
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By JENNIFER DOBNER  SALT LAKE CITY - For nine years, the question has echoed across the high desert of southeastern Utah, hard against the corner where four states meet.
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Inquiries were being made about how the firefight has been coordinated and how resources have been deployed.
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Thousands of people evacuated because of a magnesium fire at a recycling plant were allowed to return home Saturday, but the blaze still could take days to burn itself out.
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By Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 21--A 4,000-acre wildfire burning three miles west of the Susitna River had reached Trapper Lake by midafternoon and had destroyed one structure, state fire officials said.
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A fast-moving wildfire burning in eastern Utah killed three men who were working in a hay field, authorities said.
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By Andrew Wellner, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 8--WASILLA -- A group of state and local firefighters that might have seemed larger than necessary stomped out a one-acre forest fire Tuesday in Big Lake.
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BIG TIMBER, Mont. - After being grounded by smoke for a day, firefighting helicopters returned to work Wednesday, pouring water on a nearly 290-square-mile wildfire that had destroyed 26 homes and forced hundreds to evacuate.
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The home to the San Diego Chargers was transformed overnight into the home for up to 10,000 people seeking shelter from wildfires that have swept through the region.
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CEDAR FORT, Utah County -- A wildfire burned 140 acres Sunday afternoon about half a mile east of town near state Route 73.  The fire started about 3:20 p.m. Because there was no lightning, firefighters believe the blaze was caused by humans. Utah County Sheriff's Lt.
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BIG TIMBER, Mont. - Crews battling an enormous wildfire braced for hot, windy weather Monday after hundreds of people were evacuated from the path of the flames.