An FDIC 2018 training event Todd McNeal Chief Twain Harte (CA) Fire Department Wednesday, April 25, 2018 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. REGISTER NOW The class provides company officers and firefighters with the current tactical information necessary to...
Leaf Blower, Prescribed Burn Review
Leafblower uses and limitations tested (YouTube) bdelder42 - We perform a burnout operation around a dry wood deck at the Iowa Cooperative Burn Week in the Loess Hills. Here you get to see more of what the leaf blower can do and some of its limitations....
April 2018 National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook
Outlooks for the current month Forest Service - National Interagency Fire Center This product provides outlooks for the current month, the month following and a seasonal look at the two months beyond that. The main objectives of the National Significant...
Hotshots
The firefighter's firefighter Panorama of the Geronimo Interagency Hotshot Crew as they keep watch on their burnout along a forest road. The Geronimo Hotshots are from the San Carlos Apache Tribal Natural Resources Program, in San Carlos, Arizona. (USDA Photo...
Prescribed Burn Escapes Containment in New Mexico
Fire near Grants has burned nearly 300 acres GRANTS, N.M. (AP) — Cibola National Forest officials say a prescribed fire near Grants has escaped its containment and is now a wildfire that has burned an estimated 300 acres. They say the fire is located in...
Forest Service to Burn 200 to 600 Acres in Vermont
Prescribed burn in the Green Mountain National Forest RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says between 200 and 600 acres in the Green Mountain National Forest are going to be burned with prescribed fires as part of a project designed to improve...
Congressional Spending Bill Included Wildfire Disaster Fund
Bill sets aside over $20M for over 10 years By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A spending bill slated for a vote in Congress includes a bipartisan plan to create a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires that...
USFS Interim Chief Confronts Misconduct Scandal
Christiansen to take on harassment and bullying of women By MATTHEW BROWN and DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — After a career spent battling wildland fires across the West, U.S. Forest Service interim Chief Vicki Christiansen must now...
Female Firefighter to Lead USFS Amid Scandal
Move came roughly 24 hours after former Chief Tony Tooke abruptly retired By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A female wildland firefighter has been tapped by the Trump administration to steady the U.S. Forest Service as it reels...
Rape, Harassment, Retaliation in the USFS
Women firefighters tell their stories PBS NewsHour - Women in the U.S. Forest Service aren't just fighting fires; some are fighting sexual misconduct in the most remote parts of the country. In an exclusive PBS NewsHour investigation, 34 women in 13...
Fire Crews Burn 84 Acres of Louisiana Refuge
Prescribed burn to help longleaf pine trees SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Fire crews have burned a small section of a wildlife refuge to benefit longleaf pine trees, which require periodic fires to thrive, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. Most of the 38,500-acre...
California Fire Chiefs Seek Money to Prevent Wildfires
Chiefs asked lawmakers for $100 million By JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California fire chiefs said Wednesday that reinforcements were too slow to arrive in last year's ferocious firestorms and asked lawmakers for $100 million...