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They called last winter, “the winter that wasn’t”. The question this year for meteorologists is, will it be similar this year. U.S. Agriculture Meteorologist, Brad Rippey, says last year the jet stream swept much of the cold air out to sea, but this year a high pressure system parked over the North Atlantic is holding the cooler air over the continent.

“And that could pus

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Great work done during initial attack on the Sheep Herder Hill Fire means  crews are now able to move forward with containment, which, as of Wednesday, was at about 50 percent.

Larry Floyd, one of the operation chiefs on the f

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Officials at the Natrona County Health Department say they’ve had reports of ash from the Sheep Herder Hill fire dropping as far away as Douglas. Audrey Grey is special operations manager at the h

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K2 Radio’s Rich Denison has been on the mountain all day and had this late afternoon update from the fire command center.

He says fire personel continue to arrive, with federal fire fighters expected to take over tomorrow.

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Heads up Idol fans. Producers are telling K2 Radio that the audition start times are earlier than first reported. 8 a.m. is now the call time with auditions that continue through the day until 4 p.m.

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The American Idol Bus is scheduled to roll into Casper, Wyoming sometime the week of August 6th. It’s one leg of a regional tour by producers combing the area for talent.

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The Wyoming Department of Agriculture met with producers, law makers and county officials across the state in a series of meetings on the current impact of drought and fire.

Doug Miyamoto, Agriculture Department deputy director says they wanted to get information out as quickly as possible about the situation and hear what producers need.

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Fire fighters say rain is helping control four major wildfires burning in Wyoming. State Forester Bill Crapser says damp conditions raise hopes that firefighters will  be able to move into mop up soon.

The largest of the fires is the roughly 150-square-mile Arapaho Fire b

Investigators on the Squirrel Creek Fire say they’ve determined it was human caused.

“One thing people should understand is, 75 percent of the fires, at least, are human caused. And we just ask people to be very careful. Its bad enough that we do have the lightening

North of Newcastle the Oil Creek Fire has burned over 58,000 acres with about 40 percent containment. Those numbers were reported late Wednesday.

Incident Information Officer, Mary Bean says area evacuations have bee

The Arapaho fire northwest of Wheatland, as of late Wednesday had burned over 93,000 acres with 25 percent containment.

Burnout operations on the SW corner of the fire were successful. Fire officials say shi

Heat exhaustion, smoke and poor visibility, narrow dirt roads and animals on those road are all safety concerns facing firefighters working the Arapaho fire northwest of Wheatland. That fire has grown to about 88,000 acres.

Fire spokesman, Jim Whitti