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Kirk Siegler/NPRExtreme weather events made worse by climate change are hitting some of the poorest parts of the United States hard. Recovery will be extra difficult at a time of high inflation. -
Jeff Chiu/APPacific Gas & Electric also agreed to submit to five years of oversight. The company didn't acknowledge any wrongdoing in the settlement.
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Days are shorter, nights are cooler, and rain is becoming more frequent in the forecast. While that all bodes well for crews battling Oregon鈥檚 wildfires, a new element of risk is possible. -
Industry groups and property owners are wary of mandating fire-resistant materials in new construction. There's also controversy over exactly where the new rules should be required. -
Scientists have discovered they can track fire lines and can quickly draw attention to spot fires using satellites. -
Pacific Gas & Electric's planned blackouts last week left millions of Northern Californians in the dark. Businesses lost money, people with health issues鈥� -
FINAL UPDATE: FRIDAY, SEPT. 13, 11:15 a.m. ... Anticipated warmer, drier weather for the next couple of days has firefighters working to solidify the鈥� -
Fire fighters across much of southwestern Oregon and northwestern California are working to get on top of a string of wildfires set off by hundreds of鈥� -
UPDATE: WEDS. AUG 28, 9:45 a.m. ... The Gyda fire, burning along the 11000-block of Highway 238 in the Applegate Valley, is now 100% lined, and mop-up鈥� -
UPDATE: Aug. 24, 9:00 p.m. ... Firefighters are now in mop-up operations on the Mountain fire, about 15 miles northeast of Redding. After growing rapidly鈥� -
UPDATE: Monday, Aug. 5, 3:30 a.m. ... Containment on the Milepost 97 Fire has reached 55 percent. That said, hand line, dug by fire crews, and bull dozer鈥� -
The Tucker Fire has been burning since Sunday afternoon on the southwest edge of the Clear Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Modoc County near the Oregon鈥�
