Another 100 to join 159 in country By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials said Tuesday they're planning to send at least another 100 firefighters to Australia to join 159 already in the country battling wildfires that have...
Home Defense No Match for Australian Wildfire
Steel frame was no match for flames By NICK PERRY Associated Press BALMORAL, Australia (AP) — With flames climbing as high as a 15-story building and menacing his supposedly fireproof home on three sides, Justin Kam ran to the laundry room and opened the...
Australian Prime Minister’s Leadership Criticized During Wildfires
Critics argue he should take some of the feedback to heart By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — As his country burned, Australia's prime minister was cursed and jeered out of a town, called an “idiot,” a “moron” and worse, and...
Storms Bring Relief and Danger to Australian Wildfires
Fire crisis in southeast Australia has destroyed 2,000 homes By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Thunderstorms and showers brought some relief for firefighters battling deadly wildfires across Australia’s drought-parched east coast...
California to Examine Wildfire Blackout Effects on Communication
FCC says up to 27% of Sonoma County's wireless cell sites were offline during the Kincade Fire By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When the nation's largest electric utility preemptively shut off power last fall to prevent wildfires...
Australian Crews Race to Contain Wildfires
Across New South Wales, 130 fires were still burning on Tuesday By NICK PERRY and KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press BALMORAL, Australia (AP) — Bolstered by cooler weather and desperately needed rain, exhausted firefighters in Australia raced to shore up defenses...
Backpacking a Water Supply in the Wildland Urban Interface
When you have to bring water and you can't drive in Firefighters and fire crews working in the wildland urban interface sometimes are not able to take motorized vehicles into an area where fire needs to be extinguished and instead must rely on bringing...
Australia to Pay ‘Whatever it Takes’ to Fight Wildfires
Nationwide at least 25 people have been killed By NICK PERRY and KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's government said Monday it was willing to pay “whatever it takes” to help communities recover from deadly wildfires that have...
Announcing the 2019 Wildland Fire Digital Storytelling Micro-Grant Winners! Sponsored by WATERAX
WATERAX is happy to have sponsored The Smokey Generation’s project, American Wildfire Experience 2019 Wildland Fire Digital Storytelling to help Canadian Wildland Firefighters share their story. The following twelve talented wildland firefighters — winners of...
Wildfires Threaten Creatures on Australian ‘Galapagos’
Fires have killed thousands of koalas and kangaroos By NICK PERRY Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating...
Australia Prime Minister Defends Response to Fires
New South Wales Rural Fire Service said 150 fires were active By SHONAL GANGULY and STEVE McMORRAN Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Cooling temperatures and calmer winds brought some relief Sunday to Australian communities raked by wildfires, but the heat...
U.S. Sends Firefighters to Australia
They include hotshot and helicopter crew members Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A crew of 20 veteran firefighters based in California will head to Australia on Monday to help battle the country's out-of-control wildfires that have killed at least 23...