California's McKinney fire has taken 4 lives including that of a fire lookout Kathy Shoopman, 74, was the Buckhorn-Bally fire lookout at the Klamath National Forest. LEILA FADEL, HOST: The McKinney fire in northern California has now taken four lives, including that of 74-year-old Kathy Shoopman. She was a fire lookout in the Klamath National Forest who was on the …
James Benton surveys the remains of his home, which was destroyed by the McKinney fire as it burned along Highway 96 near Yreka, Calif., over the weekend. “We as a government seem to have no problem declaring an emergency for lots of things, so why doesn’t Washington declare a public health and safety emergency based on forest health and climate …
Angela Crawford watches the McKinney fire from her home in Klamath National Forest on Saturday. Thunderstorms and mudslides have hampered firefighters’ battle this week against the deadly McKinney fire in Klamath National Forest at the California-Oregon border, authorities said. Three inches of rain on the fire’s east flank caused mudslides and wreaked havoc for firefighters struggling to stop the steady …
It was the perfect storm of factors for a deadly wildfire, experts say — extreme heat, dense and dry vegetation, and erratic winds and lightning brought on by persistent thunderstorms. As the 55,000-acre McKinney fire continued to burn in steep and difficult terrain in Klamath National Forest on Monday, emergency crews encountered increasingly grim evidence of the wildfire’s extraordinary and …