Governor Laura Kelly issued a state of disaster emergency proclamation Thursday morning due to increased fire weather conditions lasting throughout the weekend.

Firefighters from Sedgwick and Butler counties had to put out a grass fire northeast of Wichita Monday afternoon.

The fire danger has also prompted fire crews across the state to prepare. That prep work includes contacting other states to ask if they can help. There is also massive coordination in the state to ...

(KWCH) Aug. 2 update: The Wichita Fire Department identified 27-year-old ... confirmed that a little before 3 p.m., a passerby on the Kansas Turnpike saw the fire to a home in the 9800 block ...

Dangerous fire weather conditions expected Monday afternoon for Greeley and Wichita counties ... AND EAST-CENTRAL KANSAS... The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a Red Flag Warning ...

RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM CST /NOON MST/ TO 8 PM CST /7 PM MST/ THURSDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS ... The Fire Weather Watch is no longer ...

If you see a large police presence Tuesday around Century II, don’t be alarmed. Wichita police, along with several other law ...

Courtesy photo Wichita Fire Department Wichita firefighters had ... during his seven-plus years of working at newspapers in Kansas. He finished his MBA at Wichita State University in spring ...

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Crews are battling a grass fire in northwest Kansas. The fire is located in ... Fifteen units representing five agencies, including the Wichita Fire Department and Sedgwick County Fire District ...

The combination of low humidity and high winds is driving up the fire danger across the state. Two departments battled one grass fire in Butler County, which consumed more than 50 acres of land this ...