Guns blamed for starting wildfires in parched West
Wildfires across the arid West are linked to target shooting and firearms. Utah officials consider gun restrictions on public lands as beaches of sparks from steel jacketed bullets ignite vegetation. Reports show fires sparked by shooting in Utah Idaho Arizona Nevada New Mexico and potential tests to verify the bullets theory.
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Spokane
Wash
West
Utah
Idaho
Arizona
Nevada
New Mexico
Gary Herbert
Herbert
Clark Aposhian
Utah Sports Shooting Council
Davis County
Salt Lake City
Aposhian
Brent Halladay
Jennifer Jones
National Interagency Fire Center
Boise
U.S. Forest Service
Bureau of Land Management
Dan Ware
Tonto National Forest
BLM
Phoenix
Air Force resumes firefighting sorties after deadly C-130 crash
Air Force tanker planes returned to firefighting duty with five C-130s at Peterson AFB as wildfires rage across the West. The crash that killed four Saturday led to a fleet pause, leaving 14 heavy tankers and threatening containment. Forecasters warn of expanding blazes in Montana Wyoming and Colorado with hundreds of homes lost or threatened. Next generation BAe-146 tankers may join the fleet by 2013 while civilian heavy tankers remain critical.
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Denver
Air Force
Montana
Custer National Forest
Kathy Bushnell
Wyoming
Jim Whittington
Peterson Air Force Base
Colorado Springs
North Carolina Air National Guard
Charlotte
U.S. Forest Service
Jennifer Jones
Boise
National Interagency Fire Center
Idaho
Colorado
National Fire
Horse Canyon Fire Threatens Queen NM Area
Lightning sparked the Horse Canyon blaze in the Guadalupe Mountains southeastern New Mexico. The 6,000 acre fire near Queen prompts evacuation alerts with 200 plus firefighters, engines and three helicopters on scene. Crews also remove footbridges on the Catwalk trail to guard against floods from the Whitewater Baldy fire.
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QUEEN
New Mexico
Horse Canyon
Guadalupe Mountains
Queen Con
Catwalk National Recreation Trail
Utilities weigh burying power lines amid storm stress and cost
Pepco chief executive discusses slow response after storms and the high cost of burying lines, with estimates of 5.8 billion to place conduits in Washington DC. Utilities would pass costs to residents, raising bills by about 107 dollars monthly, while earlier studies flag prohibitively high, lengthy efforts.
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Pepco
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc
D.C
Michael Maxwell
North Carolina
Maxwell
North American Electric Reliability Corp
Santa Fe Furniture Purchase Under Fire as Budget Fight Persists
The Santa Fe Board of Finance rejects an emergency loan for office furniture while the court waits on legislative funding next year. Scott Darnell defends buying chairs for the governor’s office as necessary and saved from the governor’s $3.4 million operating budget. The governor’s office expects a $150,000 surplus after the purchase and will return it to the state’s main account. Chairs were replaced with a lifetime warranty and bulk discounts of up to 65 percent.
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Board of Finance
Scott Darnell
Martinez
Darnell
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