Study: Wildfire burn areas see faster snowpack melts, disrupt water resources
Burn scars left behind at high mountain altitudes are seeing snowpack melt much faster than non-burned areas.
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(Colorado Newsline) White House Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall said Monday during a press briefing there are 600 people unaccounted for following Hurricane Helene, as federal officials mount a response to the catastrophic storm in states across the Southeast.
Sherwood-Randall said that could lead the death toll to rise into the hundreds, but added officials are “very hopeful” some of those missing have cell phones that are not working and “actually are alive.”