By Seth Taylor Initial attack (IA) wildfire assignments are complex events requiring operational flexibility, situational awareness, and motivated personnel with clear direction to successfully overcome them. During IA wildfire events, personnel often work in isolated...
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press A second teenager was charged with intentionally setting a wildfire in a New Jersey suburb of Philadelphia as “significant” rainfall was expected to help douse a stubborn wildfire burning on the New Jersey-New York border Wednesday....
By Associated Press Fast Company Fast Company Magazine U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest management plan...
Grace Toohey - Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — In a matter of hours, the Mountain fire charged rapidly across the Santa Susana Mountains and into nearby foothill neighborhoods, forcing widespread evacuations and demanding intense firefights from crews showered in...
By Mark Brunton Whether you are beginning your career in the fire service or diversifying your fire service training and education, a roadmap on how to achieve success in becoming a wildland firefighter exists. Although traditionally, wildland fires have been a West...
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press The Northeast kept a wary eye on dozens of fires that killed at least one person and continued to burn Tuesday amid bone-dry weather, while much larger and more destructive fires came under relative control in California....
Joseph Wilkinson New York Daily News (TNS) A teenager employed by New York’s state parks department died while fighting a wildfire near the New Jersey border in Orange County on Saturday. Dariel Vasquez, 18, was killed when a tree fell on him while he was battling a...
Clara Harter, Noah Haggerty, Jired Deng and Sandra McDonald - Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Firefighters were struggling to contain a fast-moving Ventura County wildfire on Thursday that had destroyed numerous homes — and the dangerous winds fueling those flames...
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...
Ben Twomey, Director of Product Management – Wildfire, AEM As we fight through another devastating wildfire season, emergency responders and utility companies are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to bolster their detection and response capabilities. By...
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A woman died in an outdoor fire at an encampment in Millbury on Saturday night and crews on Sunday were still fighting a large overnight brush fire in Salem as dry and windy conditions have raised the risk of wildfires in southern New England. When...
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