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Disasters

Losses mount on Gunflint Trail

Losses mount on Gunflint Trail

The Ham Lake fire is still burning, four days after it started, and with no end in sight. The fire didn't get a lot bigger on Tuesday, but in the afternoon, an intense area of flame and smoke kept people from visiting their homes and cabins in the burned area. The number of structures lost to the fire now stands about about 40.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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"Everything's gone"

"Everything's gone"

Dozens of anxious cabin owners are waiting for the Ham Lake fire to die down so they can head back to their property, and see how their homes in the woods have faired. One cabin owner is biding her time at a resort along the Gunflint Trail.
by Tim Post

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Fire update from the Gunflint Trail

Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Hemphill spent much of the day with fire crew members and joins us now from the Gunflint Trail.

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U of M researcher trapped by Gunflint fire

U of M researcher trapped by Gunflint fire

While the Ham Lake fire may have started just outside of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, there were three campers in the BWCA who got trapped by the wind and flames.

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Pawlenty surveys wildfire in northeast Minnesota

Pawlenty surveys wildfire in northeast Minnesota

People whose property went up in smoke in one of Minnesota's most damaging wildfires in years were supposed to get their first look at the damage Tuesday. Then, the wind shifted and they were forced to leave again.
by Amy Forliti, Associated Press

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Fire burning up the Gunflint Trail

Firefighters are having a difficult time trying to control a wildfire at the end of the Gunflint Trail in Minnesota's Arrowhead region. Fire information officer Jeff Edmonds says at least 8,000 acres have burned, and the fire is growing.

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Roseville students raise money for Darfur

Roseville students raise money for Darfur

A group of students at Roseville Area High School has organized a fundraiser to help people in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan. The event features journalist Nick Clooney, who traveled to Darfur a year ago with his actor son George.
by Laura McCallum

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Keeping the faith a decade later

Keeping the faith a decade later

Residents of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks commemorate the 1997 Red River flood with a four-day series of events, including a reprise of a dramatic student production called "Keep the Faith."
by Dan Gunderson

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