Natural disasters – The Durango Herald

Efforts to contain 416 Fire move to the northeast

Final burnouts along south perimeter allow shift of resources

DATE: Jul 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wind sends ash, smoke from Burro Fire to Telluride

Burnouts contribute to 416 Fire growth

DATE: Jun 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

State documenting financial losses from 416 Fire

Effort aims to unlock federal aid for small businesses

DATE: Jun 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Firefighter city emerges in the Rockies to battle the Burro Fire

In a meadow northeast of Transfer Campground, a firefighter city has emerged as a strategic base to battle the 3,700-acre Burro Fire in nearby Bear Creek Canyon. About 6 a.m. Mond...

DATE: Jun 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Firefighters use burnouts to outsmart 416 Fire

Blaze grows to 22,130 acres; more homes on pre-evacuation; public lands to close

DATE: Jun 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Burro Fire grows to 1,400 acres; forest closing to recreation

The Burro Fire northeast of Dolores started in the Bear Creek drainage on Friday and has rapidly grown to 1,400 acres. The main fire is burning in steep spruce-fir timber 5 miles ...

DATE: Jun 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Trump voters in storm-ravaged county confront climate change

PORT ARTHUR, Texas – The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21 days since the greatest storm Wayne Christopher had ever seen dumped a year’s wo...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FEMA chief: Political disputes hurting Puerto Rico relief

WASHINGTON – Political differences are hurting the U.S. government’s response to victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday. H...

DATE: Oct 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ska Brewing party raises money for hurricane relief

Brewery donated $18,000 to three charities

DATE: Sep 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cat 5 Hurricane Maria threatens storm-battered Caribbean

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Hurricane Maria intensified into a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm Monday as it surged toward islands in the eastern Caribbean, and forecasters warned it mi...

DATE: Sep 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Pray for everybody’: Irma begins its assault on Florida

MIAMI – A monster Hurricane Irma roared into Florida with 130 mph winds Sunday for what could be a sustained assault on nearly the entire Sunshine State, flooding streets, knocking out power...

DATE: Sep 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Houston’s businesses inching back to work as waters recede

HOUSTON – Bobby Jucker has had it with hurricanes. In 2008, Hurricane Ike tore the roof off his business, Three Brothers Bakery. Now, he estimates, he’s facing $1 million in damag...

DATE: Sep 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

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