After two weeks of helping to fight the devastating wildfires in Southern California, Utah firefighters are on their last 24-hour shift. Kelly Bird is one of the Unified Fire Authority firefighters who has been on the front lines. He is part of the Utah Task Force, which helps combat wildfires in Southern California.
Sixty-four firefighters are back in the Beehive State after spending two weeks in Southern California helping to fight fires.
As animal shelters become overwhelmed due to wildfires, officials have flown 84 lost pets to Utah until they can be reunited with their owners.
The same storm responsible for breaking the dry streak in Southern California at the start of the week will spread areas of rain, snow and ice from the Southwest to portions of the central United States at midweek and finally to part of the Northeast by the weekend,
Members of the Unified Fire crews who have been battling fires in Southern California for the past two weeks believe they see light at the end of the tunnel
As thousands of firefighters, including some from Utah, continue to battle deadly wildfires raging across Southern California, organizations in Utah County are firming up aid to help those who have been impacted.
Firefighters with the Unified Fire Authority and various other departments from around the Wasatch Front are working 24-hour-long shifts to give aid where they can in Southern California.
Rain mostly moved out of Southern California on Monday after the first significant storm of the season brought weekend downpours that aided firefighters without causing serious mudslides.
Then, this low ejects towards the Four Corners, where heavy snow accumulation is possible at ski resorts in Arizona, Southern Utah, New Mexico, and Southern Colorado. Looking further down the road, a pattern change appears likely the first week of February with widespread snow for the West,
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The Santa Ana winds, La Niña and climate change's drying of the soil converge to spread wildfires throughout Los Angeles county.
The result is that the federal Colorado Basin River Forecast Center is now predicting that April through July flows into Powell will be only 76% of normal. That's down from 81% at the beginning of 2025.