NFS Single Engine Air Tanker crews are staying busy sending out air drops over the large wildfire currently underway in Banner County. #nebraska #wildfires #fire @unl_ianr @unl.

The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency provide state assistance to local agencies to control the fire in Banner County east of Harrisburg. Officials said lightning started the fire on August 5th.

The Nebraska SEAT and two from South Dakota are working the fire. In addition ... are on their way to Banner County to continue air support. The helicopters are equipped with 780-gallon water ...

Overnight humidity and some rainfall helped crews fighting a wildfire in western Nebraska’s Banner County. Containment of the fire, dubbed the Smokey Fire, stood at 70% as of Friday afternoon.

The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency reported Tuesday that the 60,000-acre fire in Banner County is now 95% contained. “Firefighters worked tirelessly to control and contain the Hackberry ...

The Nebraska National Guard was even forced ... Grubbs is a volunteer firefight with the Banner County Fire Department, one of the 30 agencies battling the blaze over the past five days.

Smoke rises into the air as a wildfire rages east of Wright's Gap Road in western Nebraska's Banner County. The blaze, which began Tuesday afternoon, continued to spread on Wednesday as ...

(Nebraska Forest Service via AP ... more than 3 acres (12,140 square meters), Bohall said. The second fire erupted in Banner County south of the wildfire and was put out after burning about ...

HARRISBURG -- Members of a rural western Nebraska fire department are keeping watch over an area where a fire rekindled and burned nearly 200 acres. The Banner County fire department was ...

(AP) — Fire crews made substantial headway in containing a western Nebraska wildfire that has ... The second fire erupted in Banner County south of the wildfire and was put out after burning ...