Trapper Lake Fire Grows to 4,000 Acres
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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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At least three wildfires were burning Friday in southern Alaska with lightning strikes threatening to start more blazes.  The Big Su fire near the Susitna River and the Caribou fire on the Kenai Peninsula had both spread over thousands of acres this week, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
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The nation's wildfire preparedness was raised to its highest level Thursday as dozens of new fires started in the bone-dry West, including a rapidly growing blaze on the grounds of the Idaho National Laboratory.
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 21--The Caribou Hills fire burning east of Ninilchik since Tuesday grew to more than 6,600 acres today, state officials estimate.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 26--A training session in Garden Canyon on the Fort Huachuca post resulted in a brush fire that has burned about 200 acres during the last six hours hours, an official said.
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A fire in Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy basin grew to 1,500 acres Saturday, and park officials were searching for a man suspected of setting the blaze.
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A wildfire that has scorched about 46 square miles in northeastern Utah and killed three people has prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people from nearby towns and forced authorities to close a national forest to the public.
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By Gene Warner, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 2--A fire at a Grand Island home early Friday caused an estimated $400,000 damage and led to the arrest of the 44-year-old homeowner, who was accused of interfering with firefighters and police officers.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 3--LARIMER COUNTY--   Burning continues in the Crystal Lakes subdivision near Red Feather Lakes bringing the winter's total to 1192 burned piles of slash.   U.S.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 16--OVER BRULE LAKE -- At sunset Friday a Minnesota Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter was busy scooping water from a pond and dumping it on the back line of the Famine Lake Fire.
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By Heath Druzin, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 8--A week of smoke and wind has kept aircraft grounded and shifted part of a 36,000-acre fire toward the mountain hamlet of Yellow Pine, prompting residents there to gather pets and valuables for a possible evacuation.
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By MARTIN GRIFFITH  RENO, Nev. - For the first time in three months, firefighters in northeastern Nevada may get a chance to catch their breath.  Crews nearly contained the last of two wildfires that have burned more than 407 square miles since Sept.
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By THOMAS B. LANGHORNE, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7432 or langhornet@courierpress.com  Vanderburgh County is poised to buy nearly 74 acres of heavily wooded, often flooded state surplus land -- but county officials aren't sure what to do with it if they get it.
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By Ryan Lillis, M.S. Enkoji and Dorothy Korber, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 27--SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- One gust and one tree changed the face of the Angora fire Tuesday afternoon as the wind unleashed a new wave of flame that roared toward the lake and sent 2,000 more residents fleeing.
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By Marti Maguire, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 3--Johnston firefighters tried some new tricks on their fourth day of battling a mammoth stump fire north of Clayton.
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A rainstorm helped firefighters gain control of wildfires burning across the Sierra Nevada, including a nearly 17,000-acre blaze and a smaller fire ignited by a suspected arsonist in Yosemite National Park.
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A northern California wildfire that destroyed 22 homes and two businesses in this historic gold mining town grew to nearly 10,000 acres Tuesday, but evacuated residents were able to return home.