"I just killed somebody. I just killed my ground man." Wildfire Lessons Learned Center and Texas A&M Forest Service On Sunday, January 17, 2021, Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS) resources responded to the Tractor Fire in Burnet County, Texas....
A brief look at helitack training in Colorado Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control Get a first-person view of what it feels like to exit a helicopter while it's still in the air. This process, known as a "hover (STEP) exit", requires...
Removing Chinese Tallow and Cogon grass BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will intentionally set a fire on part of an undeveloped barrier island south of Biloxi. The prescribed burn is scheduled for Wednesday on the central...
Last year’s record-setting wildfire season scorched more than 4% of the state By ADAM BEAM and DON THOMPSON Associated Press OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California is in such an urgent race with another devastating wildfire season that officials began...
Roosenburg was participating in a controlled burn United States Fire Administration The U.S. Fire Administration has announced the official on-duty death of Wildland Firefighter Selide Roosenburg, 20, of the ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division...
Bill would provide $125 million every two years to boost wildfire response By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The state Senate has unanimously passed a bill to create a dedicated fund to prevent and fight wildfires in...
Officials are rushing to thin forests, build fuel breaks around vulnerable communities and allow for planned burns By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will authorize $536 million toward forest management projects and...
20-year-old died after a UTV accident Wildland Firefighter Staff COLUMBUS, Ohio -The Ohio Department of Natural Resources announced that a member of its forestry team died last month after an accident during a prescribed fire, according to WCMH. Selinde...
Seasonal federal firefighter positions would be reclassified as permanent LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s U.S. senators and nearly two-dozen representatives asked the Agriculture and Interior departments on Monday to transition their agencies to a...
There is still time to make homes and communities safer from wildfire National Fire Protection Association In the past few years, the U.S. has seen 40,000 structures destroyed, more than $25 billion in property losses, and 100 fatalities due to wildfire....
Remember the fallen with the lessons learned NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program In 2017, a 33-year-old state inmate was accepted into the state’s Conservation Camp Program which allows inmates to request assignments within...
Lesson sharing from the Wild Mountain Fire, September 2020 Wildfire Lessons Learned Center In the early morning hours of Sunday, September 6, 2020, a Brush Engine from a rural fire department responded to a wildland fire. While attacking the left flank...
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