(06/01/10) Rain forecast across New York and Vermont, as well as parts of Ontario and Quebec could "wash away" smokey haze that drifted south into the U.S. from Canada yesterday. Meteorologist Brooke Taber of the National Weather Service in Burlington also says shifting winds could send the smoke back north as the storms pass through.
Acrid haze blanketed a vast area yesterday -- from central Ontario and Quebec across New York's North Country and much of New England.
While the weather shift may provide some relief, Quebec firefighters are still trying to contain some of the dozens of wildfires. Martha Foley has more.
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(05/08/07) State officials have raised the fire danger in the Adirondack North Country to "high." Local fire squads and forest rangers with the Department of Environmental Conservation have already battled more than a dozen brush fires from Altona in Clinton County to Argyle in Washington County. The biggest blaze burned fifty acres over the weekend in the Flat Rock State Forest in Clinton County. A fire on the summit of Cobble Mountain in Warren County drew more than fifty firefighters. Brian Mann checked in with forest ranger Captain John Streif, who says all open burning should stop until fire conditions change.
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(08/23/02) Rain showers on Thursday brought relief to firefighters across the Adirondacks. But with more sunny weather in the forecast, drought conditions are expected to continue into the fall. As Brian Mann reports, state forest rangers worry that the current rash of fires could worsen dramatically in the weeks ahead.
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(08/23/02) Brian Mann talks with Joseph Kennedy, a New York state forest ranger, about the science--and the dangers--of wildfires. More than twenty blazes are now burning across the region.
(08/21/02) Wildfires continued to grow on Tuesday, with forest rangers and volunteer fire crews battling a major blaze in the town of Johnsburg. The state continued to build its fire-fighting forces, adding army helicopters and re-enforcements from out of state. Brian Mann has details.
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(08/19/02) Forest fires across the north country spread through the weekend, doubling in size to more than two hundred acres. Forest rangers and local fire departments are focusing on fast-moving blazes in the town of Johnsburg. Brian Mann has details.
(08/16/02) A state official has banned open burning on wild forest land in the Adirondacks. The move comes as firefighters in the north country face continued hot, dry weather. Crews are stretched thin, with half-a-dozen new fires popping up on Thursday. Brian Mann has this update:
(08/15/02) This week's heat wave - and a flurry of lightning storms - have spread forest fires across the north country. Forest rangers are battling a half-dozen blazes, from Willsboro in the east to Diana in the west. As Brian Mann reports, the latest fire is burning in Lewis County, near one of Niagara Mohawk's main power corridors:
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(08/14/02) Hot, dry weather in the north country has brought a rash of forest fires to the eastern Adirondacks. New York forest rangers and crews from two state prisons are battling the blazes in rugged terrain near Lake George. Brian Mann has details:
(07/30/02) A team of New York state firefighters is due home today, from Wyoming. A second twenty-person crew has arrived in Oregon and is battling blazes in the Williamette National Forest. As Brian Mann reports, the team is working in a part of the country where thousands have been evacuated from their homes.
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