Spark from tool ignites big wildfire in Alaska
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - An Alaskan wildfire ignited by an errant spark from a power tool has spread to 50,000 acres and burned at least 70 structures in a popular recreation area, officials said on Saturday.
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By SHANNON DININNY  STEHEKIN, Wash. - Firefighters cut trees and vegetation Tuesday to try slowing the growth of an 11-square-mile wildfire that has chased summer tourists from this rural, mountainous region.
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International Falls, Minn.  The largest forest fire in decades at Voyageurs National Park is nearly out.
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Authorities on Tuesday were looking for a man who robbed a bank in Anchorage while swinging a flaming torch fashioned from a burning T-shirt and a yard-long metal pole.
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A supersonic bullet is fired with a record-breaking 10 megajoules of muzzle energy.
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By Rex Bowman, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Dec. 15--A fire that blackened nearly 2,900 acres of the George Washington National Forest this week was deliberately set, investigators said yesterday as firefighters declared the blaze under control.
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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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VICTORIA (CP) - Fire crews are attacking a blaze that has crossed the U.S. border into British Columbia.  A lightning strike ignited the Tatoosh fire in Washington state on August 22.  American and Canadian fire crews have joined forces to attack the blaze from land and air.
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BIG TIMBER, Mont.  -- An enormous wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people continued to spread Monday, though winds didn't kick up as much as firefighters had feared, a Forest Service official said.
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Firewood sales &#151; and prices &#151; are rising in New England and parts of the West this winter, fueled by increasingly expensive oil and kerosene.
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A lightning storm that swept through the Cascade Range and across eastern Washington sparked dozens of fires Friday, including a blaze that burned a home and several smaller structures.
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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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Federal officials on Friday were tracking 60 large, active fires that were burning more than 1 million acres, or more than 1,500 square miles, across the West.
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By Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 3--Thomas Wood, owner of a now-defunct Chugiak auto repair shop, thought he would get rid of his waste oil and chemicals on the cheap by paying a couple of young men who apparently wanted the stuff to set fires at Jim Creek.
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By Ben Winslow and Sara Israelsen Deseret Morning News  The U.S. military has admitted responsibility for a wildfire that started on the Utah Test and Training Range and quickly grew to a 32,000-acre blaze.
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By Courtney Sherwood  Columbian staff writer  Lightning sparks a drought-fueled wildfire. Water bursts through a remote dike. Rumbling deep below the ground portends a coming earthquake.