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10/4 Red Salmon Complex Morning Update#RedSalmonComplex AM OPERATIONAL UPDATE Video for 10-4-2020 Acres Burned – 132,065 Containment – 33% For more information – https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6891/ #ShastaTrinityNF #SixRiversNF #KlamathNF U.S. Forest Service – Six Rivers National Forest U.S. Forest Service – Klamath National Forest U.S. Forest Service – Shasta-Trinity National Forest Yurok Tribe Karuk Tribe Hoopa Fire Department and Office of Emergency Services
Posted by Red Salmon Complex on Sunday, October 4, 2020
Native Americans Feel Double Pain of COVID and Fires ‘Gobbling Up the Ground’
Monday, October 5, 2020
Kaiser Health News
When the first fire of the season broke out on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in Northern California in July, Greg Moon faced a dilemma.As Hoopa’s fire chief and its pandemic team leader, Moon feared the impact of the blaze on the dense coniferous forests of the reservation, near Redwood National and State Parks, where 3,000 tribal members depend on steelhead trout and coho salmon fishing. He was even more terrified of a deadly viral outbreak in his tribe, which closed its land to visitors in March.“We’re a high-risk community because we have a lot of diabetes, heart disease and elders that live in multigenerational homes. If a young person gets it, the whole household is going to get it,” Moon said.Eventually, the three major blazes that burned nearly 100,000 acres around Hoopa were too much for the tribe’s 25-member fire team. Moon had no choice but to request help from federal wildland rangers and other tribal firefighters.

Only the best practices rooted in science can address the causes leading to megafires. That, and brave and hardworking…
Posted by Keep Montana Green Prevent Wildfires on Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Currently the fire on the ridge between West Valley and the lower valley is roughly 80% contained. Crews are working…
Posted by Yakima County Fire District #5 on Sunday, August 16, 2020
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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