In this photo taken from Hot Springs on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and 25th Street, a U.S. Forest Service airtanker drops a load of fire retardant slurry onto the Green Acres Fire, located three miles southwest of town. The fire started on Saturday, March 1, shortly after 12 noon and was mostly contained by Monday, March 3. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
A horse named Sierra stands inside its enclosure which is painted pink from the fire retardant slurry that was dropped onto the Mike and Ann Remington residence at 27668 Cascade Road.
In a scene somewhat reminiscent of the 2007 Alabaugh Canyon Fire, a thick column of smoke rises into the southwestern sky this past Saturday afternoon as vehicles head into Hot Springs on Hwy. 71 (Cascade Road) while passing in front of the Hot Springs Ambulance headquarters. Photos by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
The Remingtons stand on their deck Monday, March 3, with the pink of the slurry and the black of the charred ground behind them.
This photo taken by Megan Harkless was shot from some pasture land atop the Seven Sisters as a helicopter makes one of several bucket drops of water onto the Green Acres Fire.
HOT SPRINGS – When rural Hot Springs residents Mike and Ann Remington found out there was a wildfire burning next to their property along Cascade Road this past weekend, they were across the state at their family’s farm near Willow Lake.The couple said calls and texts from concerned friends and neighbors started raining into their cell phones shortly after 12 noon, on Saturday, March...
