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Omaha Steve

(99,714 posts) Tue Feb 27, 2024, 12:16 PM Feb 27

Gov. Jim Pillen approves state disaster for wildfire in west-central Nebraska

Source: Omaha World Herald

North Platte Telegraph Feb 27, 2024 Updated 57 mins ago

Gov. Jim Pillen late Monday approved a state disaster that allows funds from the Governor’s Emergency Fund to be used to assist in the response to a wildfire in west-central Nebraska.

A fire prompted evacuations from North Platte to north of Gothenburg Monday amid high winds and red-flag warnings.

At the request of county officials, Nebraska’s Incident Management Team, as well as members of the state’s Wildland Incident Response Assistant Team, have been deployed and will assist local responders in the coming days.

Two National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters will be deployed to the fire and begin operations to drop water on the fire. Additional aircraft will be used to map the fire to assist teams as they plan the best strategy to fight the fire.

Flames can been seen from the side of a hill Monday east of Twin Lakes Road about five miles north of North Platte.
CAITLYN THOMAS, NORTH PLATTE TELEGRAPH

Read more: https://omaha.com/news/state-regional/gov-jim-pillen-approves-state-disaster-for-wildfire-in-west-central-nebraska/article_4cf2d1ad-d438-5d3a-ad6e-fb5586dc81e0.html

You might remember my daughter got wiped out two years ago by a wildfire. They lost everything they had.

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Gov. Jim Pillen approves state disaster for wildfire in west-central Nebraska (Original Post) Omaha Steve Feb 27 OP

Fire season starting early. Cons will con you by saying climate change has nothing to do with it. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 27 #1

There is a documentary on You Tube DENVERPOPS Feb 27 #2

Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Fire season starting early. Cons will con you by saying climate change has nothing to do with it. . . . nt

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Tue Feb 27, 2024, 12:45 PM

Feb 27

DENVERPOPS

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2. There is a documentary on You Tube

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Tue Feb 27, 2024, 01:32 PM

Feb 27

about the 400 volunteer Fire Depts in Nebraska...It's one hour long.....

It covers the older volunteer fire fighters and EMT's finally getting too old, and the young adults not volunteering, it covers the lack of financial support from the small towns and counties, it covers the lack of EMS across rural Nebraska, and lastly it covers their newest nightmare: WILD FIRES, and their total inability to even begin to fight them.......

I have to imagine this is the same across all of Rural America............

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