Containment increasing on local fires
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Following a wet late-September weekend, fire managers report that the two largest blazes in the Bonner County area — the Bernard and Callahan fires — …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Following a wet late-September weekend, fire managers report that the two largest blazes in the Bonner County area — the Bernard and Callahan fires — …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Fire crews working the two major fires in the Bonner County area are steadily achieving containment, though a new blaze reported Sept. 16 is now …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Bonner County residents — as with most everyone living in the Western United States — continue to suffer smoke-choked skies as large fires burn across …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Area fire crews continue to battle a trio of blazes in or very near Bonner County — two fanned by high winds that ripped through …
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