Saturday, June 30, 2012

Western wildfires are getting worse. Why?

Washington Post: It`s been an ugly week in Colorado Springs, as firefighters struggled to contain a massive fire that has torched more than 350 homes, forced more than 32,000 residents to flee and killed at least two people. The inferno is one of more than half a dozen large fires currently raging out West. Smoke from the Waldo Canyon Fire rises near the USAF Academy's Cadet Chapel as cadets head for a briefing on evacuation procedures in this U.S. Air Force handout photo dated June 27, 2012. (HANDOUT/Reuters)...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/06/30/western-wildfires-are-getting-worse-why-is-that/
Enclosure: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/06/fires-increasing.jpg

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