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A home in the unincorporated village of Meade sustained minor damage from smoke and fire Sunday morning.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
TILFORD | A garage was destroyed in an early morning fire today in Meade County, according to authorities.
Tuesday, August 02, 2016
Police say last month's fire on M-Hill in Rapid City was started by two 11-year-olds.
Monday, August 01, 2016
STURGIS | A state fire investigator is looking into the cause of a Sunday afternoon fire that damaged a sandstone-era house in Sturgis.
Friday, July 29, 2016
A small hillside fire Friday afternoon is being investigated as suspected arson.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
WHITECLAY, Neb. | Monday started out as a normal morning for Martin Pilcher and his crew at Arrowhead Foods, the only Native-owned business in this tiny town tucked south of the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Saturday, July 23, 2016
HILL CITY | A man-caused forest fire burned nearly 1.6 acres in the Hill City area, forcing firefighters to temporarily block traffic on part of Old Hill City Road.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Reviews of satellite-aided surveys found the Indian Canyon Fire reached 14,133 acres in the Edgemont area.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
EDGEMONT | The calm that settled Monday over Edgemont belied the tense struggle that firefighters waged a day earlier against wildfires that burned to within a mile of the city.
Monday, July 18, 2016
A growing wildfire burned over 12,000 acres by 8 p.m. Sunday and was moving "very close" to Edgemont. But as emergency workers braced to evacuate more people, a rainstorm soaked the area.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
A growing wildfire burned over 12,000 acres by 8 p.m. Sunday and was moving "very close" to Edgemont. Emergency workers at 3:45 p.m. Sunday evacuated about 60 people on the outskirts of town and warned the Edgemont community to prepare to flee from the Black Hills region’s largest wildfire s…
Friday, July 15, 2016
Fire, ice and heavy rains punctuated weather conditions today around the Black Hills.
A few piles of logs were still smoldering this afternoon in the blackened interior of M-Hill, but the fire that burned across the popular hiking spot near downtown Rapid City was 100 percent contained and controlled.
A day after it started, firefighters had mostly contained and halted the forward progress of the M-Hill Fire, putting it in “mop up” status by the end of the day on Thursday.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
A fire before 3 p.m. Thursday destroyed a residential storage shed and threatened a Radar Hill Road home a half-mile south of Box Elder.
Rapid City’s string of recent small dry-time fires exploded in a big way before sunset Wednesday as flames zigzagged through grass and trees up M-Hill.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
PIERRE | Citing widespread drought and continued high temperatures, Gov. Dennis Daugaard declared fire emergency conditions for 13 central and western counties.
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
PHILIP | A Philip area rancher is being treated at a Minneapolis burn center for injuries suffered while helping fight a neighbor’s wheat field fire on Sunday.
Friday, July 08, 2016
SUNDANCE, Wyo. | The latest lightning-caused wildfire in Crook County, Wyo., slowed Thursday, enabling fire crews to contain flames in half the burning area.
Wednesday, July 06, 2016
Tuesday was the final day to purchase fireworks in South Dakota, but residents in areas where fireworks are permitted can discharge them until Sunday. That's potential for a big fire risk, Pennington County Fire Administrator Denny Gorton said Tuesday.
Friday, July 01, 2016
SPEARFISH | The week-old Crow Peak Fire west of Spearfish doubled in size from Thursday to today.
Friday, April 17, 2015
WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. | A wildfire in Wind Cave National Park is expected to be fully contained by noon on Friday.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Gusty northwest winds vexed firefighters trying to contain the Denke Fire 30 miles north of Wall Thursday.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK | The prescribed fire that escaped and became a wildfire at Wind Cave National Park in southwest South Dakota has grown to 6,500 acres and is 30 percent contained, according to a park news release issued Wednesday morning.
When the prescribed burn was lit Monday morning at Wind Cave National Park, the people doing the lighting were following a "prescription."
With smoke from a wildfire in Wind Cave National Park filling the sky over Rapid City on Tuesday, South Dakota Fire Meteorologist Darren Clabo's forecast for the 2015 fire season offered little hope for a quiet fire season.
Thursday, April 02, 2015
The Moonshine Fire, a second large blaze sweeping through Harding County in less than a week, had grown by Thursday afternoon to almost 4,000 acres.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
CUSTER | It was a scene that already seems familiar in this warm, dry late winter:
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Dense smoke shrouded the southern Black Hills’ landscape this week, but the source wasn't a feared act of nature or man. Instead, it was a fire intended to cleanse and even protect the forest.