Fires

The next time you're doing some cleaning out around the house, you might want to take a second look at what you're tossing in the trash. The improper disposal of rechargeable batteries is causing fires at Casper's landfill, according to City and fire officials...

Three other fires were burning on the Bridger-Teton National Forest as of Monday.

A second small fire has been burning in a remote area on the western fringe of the park since July 20.

The southwest Wyoming fires are part of a wave of fires raging across several western states.

Much of western Montana was under a more severe red flag warning Saturday, indicating the weather could contribute to extreme fire behavior.

Officials are worried about firefighters' ability to get to any fires that may start in high-traffic areas.

The American Red Cross of Wyoming has been delivering food to firefighters all over Campbell County as they try to suppress the fires ignited by a Monday night storm. A "huge" dry lightning storm moved over the area, the Red Cross says, resulting in 17 fires burning as of 5 a...

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...

RANCHESTER, Wyo. (AP) — Bighorn National Forest officials say they are investigating two small fires in the northern Bighorn Mountains they believe were human-caused. One fire has burned about four acres in a remote area 10 miles northwest of Ranchester...

The USDA Forest Service keeps maps of ire locations across the nation based on data provided by the National Inter-agency Coordination Center and gives you a pretty good idea of how bad it is across the west. With new fires reported in Albany and Platte counties in addition to ongoing fires in Converse, Park and Washakie counties the situation across Wyoming is changing daily...