Firefighters battle fire near San Diego
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Years ago, I was at a national fire leadership meeting for the Forest Service. The fire organization was being accused of having a “hard shell” around it, and the non-fire administrators saw this as detrimental to our values as an organization. We were too tough they...
Clara Harter - Los Angeles Times Because of unusually strong winds, the National Weather Service has issued a rare Particularly Dangerous Situation red flag warning for wide swaths of L.A. County and southwest California, stretching from late Tuesday through Thursday....
Jackson Guilfoil - Times-Standard, Eureka, Calif. Last Tuesday, the U.S. Forest Service halted all its prescribed burns in California right as the wet season was set to begin. Citing the need to keep as many staff members and firefighting equipment on hand in the...