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Red Flag Warnings, March 21, 2013
Some portions of New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, and Georgia are under Red Flag Warnings for enhanced wildfire danger today. The National Weather Service site that usually serves up a dandy map showing...
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Rocky Chesser receives USFWS Fire Safety Award
Rocky Chesser (center), Maintenance Supervisor at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge receives the USFWS National Fire Safety Award for 2013 from John Segar, Chief, Branch of Fire Management (right),...
View ArticleWest Mims Fire in Georgia sends ash to Jacksonville, Florida
The sprawling West Mims Fire that has been burning since April, largely in a south Georgia swamp, broke containment lines on Saturday and sent ash falling as far away as downtown Jacksonville, Florida....
View ArticleSatellite time-lapse of West Mims Fire smoke
The new Goes-16 satellite that is still not fully operational captured stunning imagery of the smoke plume from the West Mims Fire blowing over Florida and the Atlantic Ocean. Smoke from the West Mims...
View ArticleFirefighter rescues fawn from West Mims Fire; extreme conditions persist
With Georgia’s West Mims Fire now making continual headlines, photos of smoke plumes and falling ash are seemingly everywhere. That means this photo from a couple weeks ago is sure to make the rounds,...
View ArticleThree-day road trip: visiting three fires that burned last year in the Southeast
Three days, three states, three fires.
View ArticlePhoto gallery for the three-day, three-fire road trip
Earlier today we wrote about the three-day, three-fire, three-state road trip where a group of us boarded a very comfortable bus, or coach, and toured the sites of three large fires that occurred last...
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