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How to Protect Houses from Ignition from Wildfires

How to Protect Houses from Ignition from Wildfires

By Vyto Babrauskas How do houses burn down? There are two main ways: from an internal ignition source and from an external ignition source. Building codes focus primarily on protecting houses from internal ignition sources, but wildfires—forest fires, vegetation...

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NM Recruits Firefighters for First Hotshot Crews

NM Recruits Firefighters for First Hotshot Crews

Gabrielle Porter - The Santa Fe New Mexican Feb. 5—What does it take to build a Hotshot firefighting crew from the ground up? How about two of them? New Mexico officials are about to find out. The State Forestry Division, part of the Energy, Minerals and Natural...

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Wildfires in Chile Kill 112,  Leave 1,600 Homeless

Wildfires in Chile Kill 112, Leave 1,600 Homeless

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Firefighters wrestled Sunday with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile two days earlier, as officials extended curfews in cities most heavily affected by the blazes and said at least 112 people had been killed. The fires burned...

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Man Says He Was on Meth When He Started GA Wildfire

Man Says He Was on Meth When He Started GA Wildfire

Joe Kovac Jr. - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution MACON — A man who busted into a remote cabin with an ax and set fire to a couch, sparking a blaze that burned nearly 700 acres in Middle Georgia’s Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge, has pleaded guilty to first-degree...

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