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On top of damaging homes and natural landscapes, wildfires release harmful pollutants into the atmosphere as they burn.
The West has for years been adapting to more extreme fires and investing in firefighting resources. In a place like ...
Air pollution caused by fires is linked to more than 1.5 million deaths a year worldwide, the vast majority occurring in ...
On Nov. 22, two weeks after the start of Jennings Creek wildfire at Sterling Forest State Park on the New York border with ...
The service of veterans - as well as of first-responders who fought the Jennings Creek wildfire along the New Jersey-New York ...
New York Army National Guard aviators dropped 550,160 gallons of water on the 5,200 acre Jennings Creek fire between Nov.
GREENWOOD LAKE, N.Y. - New York Army National Guard aviators dropped 550,160 gallons of water on the 5,200-acre Jennings ...
NEWARK VALLEY (WBNG) -- Thousands of firefighters from around the state fought the Jennings Creek Wildfire side by side for days. Firefighters from Tioga County were a part of that crew.
Fourteen days after it started, the Jennings Creek/Sterling Forest State Park wildfire on the New York border was declared ...
Dead ash trees can provide nutrients and moisture to the soil, but they can also fuel fires if conditions become dry enough.