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New Brush Trucks for Virginia Fire Departments

New Brush Trucks for Virginia Fire Departments

A Type 6 rig in Loudoun County     Skeeter Brush Trucks See Loudoun County Fire and Rescue (VA) take their recently completed Rescue-Side Type 6 Skeeter Brush Truck around our off-road track! Get details for this truck on our website: skeeterbrushtrucks.com...

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Queens, New York Brush Fire

Queens, New York Brush Fire

An All-Hands fire at Box 4412     The Responder Date Recorded: March 4th, 2021 Area: Flushing Queens Location: Kissena Corridor Parm Queens 10-75 Box 4412 Engine 274 and 274 HMTU, Engine 299, Engine 320 Ladder 152, Ladder 167 Brush Fire Unit 7 Battalion 52...

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NFPA Launches Outthink Wildfire

NFPA Launches Outthink Wildfire

Initiative aims to eliminate destruction of communities by wildfire by 2050   National Fire Protection Association The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) announced Outthink Wildfire™, a comprehensive strategy to address America’s wildfire crisis that...

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California Finishes Trials of New Wildfire Aircraft

California Finishes Trials of New Wildfire Aircraft

Intel 24 was recently used over a wildfire in Malibu     Wildland Firefighter Staff ORANGE COUNTY, California - California has just finished trials on a new aircraft that may be used to help fight the state’s wildfires. Intel 24 is able to see through smoke...

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Wildfire Hand Tools Training in the 1970’s

Wildfire Hand Tools Training in the 1970’s

A look back in this wildfire training film     Periscope Films Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm​ Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD...

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California Likely Faces a Critically Dry Year

California Likely Faces a Critically Dry Year

The state's largest surface water reservoir, was at 50% of capacity     By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California will likely face a critically dry year with much less runoff from the Sierra Nevada snowpack than normal and reservoirs...

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Fort Huachuca, Arizona Prescribed Burn

Fort Huachuca, Arizona Prescribed Burn

Burn training includes possibly finding unexploded ordinance     U.S. Army Fort Huachuca In this Fort Report, a Prescribed Burn is performed on the mountains and ranges with dense vegetation to reduce fire risk and ensure military training continues at Fort...

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Arizona Army National Guard Conducts Wildfire Training

Arizona Army National Guard Conducts Wildfire Training

Multi-agency training with helicopters     Defense Flash News Arizona Army National Guard Soldiers with the 2-285th Assault Helicopter Battalion and the 2-149th General Support Aviation Battalion Medical Evacuation detachments conduct a two-day training...

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