(Bloomberg) — Cody Chiverton has spent the last decade setting fires. A former U.S. Forest Service firefighter, he’s been involved in dozens of controlled fires across the American West in which fire crews use drip torches to ignite dry vegetation, leaving behind flames and smoke. Most read by Bloomberg But in June, Chiverton conducted a […]
The Bucktail Fire, which is raging across more than 28,000 acres in Montrose County, has nearly doubled in size since Wednesday, fire officials said Saturday. On Saturday, the fire raged across 28,400 acres of private and state forest near Nucla, according to fire officials. Just three days earlier, the fire was almost half the size, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Smokey the Bear, the iconic symbol of wildfire prevention, celebrates his 80th birthday on Friday, August 9. Smokey first appeared on a forest fire prevention poster in 1944 and has had a major influence on American environmental conservation efforts ever since. The true story of a young black bear was […]
