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Story Archives of 'fire'
Convincing People Not to Burn in the Open
By David Sommerstein on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.For generations, rural residents of the Northeast burned everything from leaves and brush to garbage and tires to save on trash pickup. As of this fall, all states in the region are regulating open burning…not only to prevent wildfires, but to keep toxic smoke from polluting the region’s air.
As part of a collaboration with Northeast stations, North Country Public Radio’s David Sommerstein reports convincing people to obey the law is an ongoing effort.
Can goats really help prevent wildfires?
By EarthTalk on Sunday, September 20, 2009.
EarthTalk®
From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Prairie Burns for Pay
By Sylvia Maria Gross on Wednesday, July 15, 2009.
The rising price of corn and other livestock feed grains has Midwestern cattle ranchers getting creative about supplementing their income.
Each year, rancher Jan Jantzen charges tourists 120 dollars to help him perform a controlled burn on his prarie land in Emporia, Kansas. Sylvia Maria Gross of KCUR visited Jantzen’s ranch to bring us this story.
You can listen to this piece at the Public Radio Exchange.
Ice Storm Debris May Cause Fire Concern This Year
By Amy Quinton on Friday, May 29, 2009.Recent rainfall in the state has quenched much of the fire danger for the state’s forests.
But fire rangers say it only takes a few days of high temperatures and dry conditions to bring back that threat.
As New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports, this year fire officials are especially concerned, given all the downed branches and trees from December’s ice storm.
Christian Conference Center in Alton Destroyed by Fire
By Shannon Mullen on Sunday, April 12, 2009.Governor John Lynch toured the site of a 14-alarm fire in Alton today.
The blaze, one of the biggest in the state, destroyed dozens of buildings at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center on Easter Sunday, causing millions of dollars in damage.
New Hampshire Public Radio Correspondent Shannon Mullen has more.
Here's What's Awesome: Chicken Power, New Old-School Video Games
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, September 14, 2008.
Welcome to Awesomeville! I'm Brady, your guide, and on behalf of Mayor Prescott and the city council, we bid you welcome with some links to enjoy while we wait for news on Hurricane Ike.
Alternative energy, or Muppet Show sketch?
Fire Chiefs in the North Country Worry about This Coming Winter
By Chris Jensen on Tuesday, September 9, 2008.Today's rainy weather is a good reminder that colder weather is on the way.
And this year with fuel prices so high, residents will be looking for more economic ways to keep warm.
And as NHPR Correspondent Chris Jensen reports, some fire chiefs in The North Country are worried that troubled times are ahead for their departments
Could West Coast-Sized Forest Fires Hit New Hampshire Forests?
By Chris Jensen on Tuesday, December 4, 2007.The fires earlier this fall in Malibu have died, but the pictures are still with us.
Red-orange flames more than 30 feet high.
Aircraft and firefighters struggling as thousands of acres of forests and hundreds of homes burned
That story is common out West.
But even though the North Country doesn’t suffer such disasters, local officials do plan for them.
NHPR Correspondent Chris Jensen has the story.
Forest Fires Out West Hit White Mountain Forest Budget
By Shannon Mullen on Friday, August 17, 2007.It’s wildfire season, a time when the worst fires burn thousands of miles away from the northeast. But the rising cost of fighting them in the west is affecting the operation of New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest here in the east.
NHPR Correspondent Shannon Mullen reports.
StoryCorps: May Gruber
By Andrew Parrella on Tuesday, August 7, 2007.On March 25, 1911 a devastating fire erupted in the Triangle Waist Factory in New York City. Goffstown resident May Gruber's mother was a garment worker at the factory and retells her story.
