Have you ever wondered how the area fires receive their names? It is not alphabetical like hurricanes. According to Ron Leal, director of Region 21 Emergency Management, the naming of the fire is up to the incident commander. Leal said all larger wild land fires are named, usually named using the closest landmark. Although sometime they are named after a county road number, departments don’t...
source https://www.westernnebraskaobserver.net/story/2021/09/23/news/how-are-wildfires-named-heres-how/7512.html
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