Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) — Fire season is underway in South Dakota, and prescribed burns and slash piles are being cleaned up. Over this past season, wildland crews built up several mitigation efforts ...

LAPORTE — It could be several more days before a fire at a large public composting pile is extinguished. Firefighters with help from about a dozen excavators and backhoe operators on Sept. 24 appeared ...

(FREMONT COUNTY, Colo.) — The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (DRMS) announced Phase One of the Corley Mine Surface Burn Mitigation Project to extinguish a coal pile that has been ...

Prescribed pile burning of about 40 treated acres of slash from felled dead trees and brush will be going on May 14-21, the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) has announced.

The Oregon Department of Forestry is teaming up with the owner of 33,000 acres of private timberland west of Bend to test a new technology that reduces the amount of smoke produced during pile burning ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two brush fires, each caused by an unattended burn pile, were contained by fast responses from firefighters in Forest Grove and Lebanon on Saturday afternoon. Just before 2 p.m ...

LAPORTE COUNTY, IN (WSBT) — Firefighters on Monday were in the second day of trying to put out a large burning public composting pile in LaPorte. The over 1,000-foot-long pile of yard waste at a ...

Smoke may be visible around Anchorage in the coming days as controlled burning got underway Monday on the Hillside, between Hilltop Ski Area and the Prospect Heights Trailhead. State fire officials ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Ravalli County Office of Emergency Management is encouraging folks to consider delaying outdoor burning until fall after a burn pile got out of control on Monday afternoon.

Ravalli County Office of Emergency Management received a report of an individual conducting a burn pile southwest of Victor that went out of control and needed assistance to be put out. Officials want ...

A large public compost pile in LaPorte has been burning for several days. Firefighters are using heavy machinery to dig into the pile and extinguish hotspots. Over seven million gallons of water have ...