President Obama this weekend signed legislation that will bring a degree of relief to the nation’s forests by helping federal agencies solve several of the top problems caused by the skyrocketing costs of wildfire suppression. The measure establishes a new approach to budgeting for costly wildfires, which continually drain the budgets of the Forest Service and Department of the Interior and lead to the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars from other agency forest and land management [...]
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Share http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-arson10-2009apr10,0,5392478.story From the Los Angeles Times The measure, modeled on the sex offenders registry, is one of several proposals in Congress as wildfire season nears. By Richard Simon April 10, 2009 Reporting from Washington — As a federal prosecutor, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) struggled to tie an accused arsonist to a string of fires in the San Bernardino [...] Share March 27, 2009 Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack Washington, DC – Continuing their ongoing efforts to combat arson across the country, Congressman Adam Schiff (CA-29) and Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) re-introduced the Managing Arson Through Criminal History (MATCH) Act of 2009 (H.R. 1727), which will create a comprehensive, nation-wide database for law enforcement to track convicted [...] Nearly a dozen hours after the (600) acre grass firefight had begun; Firefighter Adams collapsed and stopped breathing at approximately 2200hrs while he was backing his fire apparatus along the side of Hwy 51. Adams was assisted by other responders but succumbed to his injury and was pronounced at the scene. [...] Share The only man charged with lighting one of Australia’s deadly wildfires that killed at least 189 people did not appear in the court on Monday fearing for his safety as it lifted a ban on publication of his name. Brendan Sokaluk was due to appear in the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court this morning but chose to [...] Australia vowed to push through stalled plans for a national fire warning system on Thursday, though questions remain over whether coordinated alerts could have saved lives in the country’s worst-ever wildfires. Police released two men who had been taken in for questioning after they were reported acting suspiciously in an area burned out by last weekend’s [...] Prosecutor Michael Hestrin said it could be at least two weeks before any testimony is heard in the trial of Raymond Lee Oyler, who is charged with setting some two dozen fires including the deadly Esperanza fire in 2006 that killed the five well-known [...] |
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