Governor Matt Mead activated a Wyoming Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The UH-60 and crew will deploy to Washington State to assist forest fire fighting. The focus will be on medical evacuations.
Governor Mead said,
“In 2012 fires burned more than half a million acres across Wyoming. Thi...
Casper firefighters are assisting in the fight of a massive wildfire in the north-central portion of the state of Washington.
“Three of our firefighters and one of our brush firefighting engines departed, and they were at the fire on Tuesday and have been working the Carlton Complex since that time,” Casper Fire-EMS division chief Mark Harshman said...
Following a massive mudslide that nearly wiped the small community of Oso, Washington off the map, the outpouring of support has touched the lives of all who were affected.
In a town that is reeling from an announced 28 dead and 20 of it's citizens still missing, many are looking for ways to help...
Several conservative Senate Republicans have swung behind a bipartisan budget bill, apparently giving it enough momentum to win a pivotal test in the Senate over the passive resistance of top GOP leaders.
A leading congressional deficit hawk says a bipartisan budget agreement hammered out on Capitol Hill is mostly a patch-work approach that fails to address wasteful spending that is contributing to a ballooning federal debt.