Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The president this evening has informed congress that he is doubling the number of u. S. Forces headed to iraq. These new troops are being sent in with helicopters and will be equipped for combat. It was just 11 days ago that president obama announced that 300 advisors were headed to baghdad to help iraq fight an extremist insurgency that threatens to tear the country apart. But he insisted at that time that u. S. Forces will not be returning to combat. Apparently now the mission is growing. Major garrett is at the white house for us tonight. Major . Reporter scott, white house officials insist this is not a signal of Mission Creep in iraq. They do acknowledge this means more forces with combat capability will be in baghdad but argue their only mission will be to protect u. S. Embassy personnel, secure baghdads airport, and if necessary beef up military escorts
A wildfire simulation setup by the La Plata County Office of Emergency Management last week looked at what businesses should do in the event of a wildfire.
Businesses at Bodo Industrial Park, located .
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A growing plume of smoke emerged over Animas City Mountain, located just north of Durango, on Monday afternoon as firefighters began fulfilling a long-desired prescription to burn nearly 500 acres on .
The alphabet soup hung thick in the air at the Wednesday morning briefing. Acronyms were abundant.
The assemblage of firefighters from the San Juan National Forest, Upper Pine River Fire Protection D.