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Prescribed burns are excellent at reducing fuel loads, but they've been less successful at saving peoples' homes from wildfires. New research points to the rarely-praised concept of defensible space as a likely hero.
University of Tasmania scientists found defensible-space focused gardening to be an unlikely hero of wildfire-mitigation. Here's how.
The Wapiti Fire has burned nearly 70,000 acres of the Boise National Forest as crews work to save the town of Stanley.
The Wapiti Fire has burned 68,123 acres of the Boise National Forest in Idaho as of Monday morning, according to Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team officials. Aerial help is largely restricted as massive smoke plumes bellow into the sky. The fire’s hottest spots were recorded on the eastern p...
State officials enlisted Brazil's military after declaring "war" on the wildfires Sunday.
Brazil President Lula said none of the fires started from natural causes. State officials are now working with the military for airdrops.
The lightning-caused Fish Creek Fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres of Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest and triggered pre-evacuation notices as of Thursday morning. The wildfire's total acreage has nearly quadrupled since Monday. The fire was first reported on Aug. 17 at just five acres, but quickly ballooned to 2,250 acres on Monday. USFS officials blame high winds for the spread, and warn the fire may grow even more....
The Fish Creek Fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. The wildfire is expected to get even bigger.
Hazy sunsets across Europe have record-breaking wildfires burning in Western Canada to blame, according to the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
Smoke from wildfires in the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba recently reached Western Europe. See satellite images here.
The Laurisilva World Heritage Site holds exceptional ecological importance. It may be permanently damaged by a six-day-long wildfire burning on the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira.
The Laurisilva World Heritage Site may face unrecoverable damage from an arson-caused wildfire burning on the Portugal island. Here's why.
Wildfires burned more than 429,000 acres of land in California's Sonoma County in 2020. The LNU Lightning Complex and the Glass fires destroyed 1,500 structures and burned numerous grape vineyards. A new study found during those fires, the county's government prioritized the county's wine industry profits over the lives of the people working those fields. Researchers from the University of California - Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, recently published a study in the…...
Researchers found California's Sonoma County put the wine industry over farmworker safety during the 2020 Glass Fire and LNU Complex.
Agriculture-based technological developments can only do so much to keep a fire-sensitive crop alive after it’s planted on fire-dependent lands.
The “beating heart of the American wine industry” has had to reckon with this question since 2017 when numerous wildfires spread across northern California's famed wine country. The Tubbs, Atlas, and Nuns fires burned hundreds of thousands of acres, caused numerous deaths, and destroyed multiple...
Our rapidly heating climate is breeding fires that are effectively laws unto themselves.
This article was originally written by Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor at The Conversation, and is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. After more than a year of record-breaking heat, the peak of fire season is approaching across vas...
A brotherhood of monks in a remote New Mexico town is on the frontline of wildfire prevention for their community. Here's why:
Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery dealt with constant smoke during the 2012 Whitewater Baldy Complex fire. Now, they drive fire prevention.
Forest Service Burn Boss arrested after prescribed fire escapes in Oregon.
Malheur National Forest
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/10/20/forest-service-burn-boss-arrested-after-prescribed-fire-escapes-in-oregon/
near Big Bear Lake in Southern California. https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/09/06/radford-fire-near-big-bear-lake-in-southern-california-prompts-evacuations/
The south of Hemet, California has been vigorously spreading to the east Tuesday afternoon, and has now crossed and is well established on the east side of Baustista Road. It was 4,542 acres at 3:37 p.m. Tuesday. https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/09/06/fairview-fire-two-dead-thousands-of-acres-burned-south-of-hemet-california/
The 3,921-acre has destroyed multiple structures in the town of W**d, CA 56 air miles north of Redding California. Videos posted online showed residential areas burning. 12 miles to the west the has burned thousands of acres. https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/09/02/mill-fire-prompts-evacuations-in-weed-california/
The US Forest Service is partnering with NASA to evaluate the use of two high-altitude long endurance drones to improve wildland firefighters’ situational awareness. Last week a balloon laden with a sophisticated package of electronics hovered 60,000 feet over the Moose Fire in Idaho. They are also looking at a solar powered fixed wing aircraft that can fly at 70,000 feet for more than 30 days. https://fireaviation.com/2022/08/18/forest-service-evaluating-two-high-altitude-drones-to-assist-wildland-firefighters/
The National Interagency Fire Center reported early Thursday morning that on August 10, a member of the Craig Interagency Hotshot Crew was fatally injured while assigned to the Big Swamp Fire on the Willamette National Forest in southwest Oregon.
Our sincere condolences go out to the family, friends, and co-workers.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/08/11/firefighter-killed-at-a-wildfire-in-oregon/
Two fires are burning in the Northern Great Plains. The south of Sundance, Wyoming has burned about 500 acres since it started Sunday. The has grown to more than 13,000 acres southwest of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/07/31/fish-fire-near-sundance-wyoming-prompts-evacuations/
The in Northern California eight miles south of the Oregon state line was very active throughout the night. When it was mapped by an aircraft at 12:30 a.m. Sunday it had grown to 51,468 acres. During a satellite overflight at 3:38 a.m. about 90 percent of the heat detected was on the east and southeast sides.
The 16,791-acre northeast of Mariposa, CA was very active Sunday especially on the east side where firefighters worked to minimize the spread beyond Footman Ridge and battled to keep it from crossing Bear Clover Lane. https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/07/24/oak-fire-spreads-rapidly-east-of-mariposa-california/
NOAA has produced a forecast for the distribution of vertically integrated wildfire smoke at 7 a.m. MDT Sunday July 24. Locations to be hit the hardest are areas in Northern California, Northern Nevada, Eastern Idaho, and Montana.
The at Midpines, California was active throughout much of Friday night. At 4:25 a.m. Saturday it was mapped by FIRIS at 6,555 acres. Half an hour after sunrise it was putting up two smoke columns that were quite some distance apart, with one of them creating enough energy to be capped by a pyrocumulus cloud. At 11:52 a.m. Saturday, Air Attack mapped it at 9,100 acres.
https://wildfiretoday.com/tag/oak-fire/
Additional wildfires break out in Europe as extreme heat continues.
Multiple wildland-urban interface fires in greater London destroy dozens of homes
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/07/19/additional-wildfires-break-out-in-europe-as-extreme-heat-continues/
NOAA has issued their forecast for the distribution of for 10 a.m. PDT July 11, 2022. The smoke is primarily originating from wildfires in California and Utah.
With very little wind Saturday, the continued to spread in and adjacent to the Mariposa grove of giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park in California. In spite of the relatively mild weather conditions, spot fires are occurring hundreds of feet out in front of the leading edge. The growth into the grove has been limited due to previous prescribed fires that reduced the amount of fuel on the ground, and by the efforts of firefighters. Some of the trees are about 3,000 years old.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/07/10/washburn-fire-grows-in-yosemite-national-park/
The in Yosemite NP was very active throughout Friday night and into Saturday morning. There was a convection column of smoke over the blaze at dawn, something you don't often see over a wildfire at that time of day. Friday night it was mapped at 703 acres.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/07/08/fire-burns-into-another-giant-sequoia-grove-this-time-in-yosemite-national-park/
Another wildfire is burning in a grove of giant sequoia trees — behemoths that can live for 3,000 years. The was reported at 2 p.m. Thursday July 7 and by 4 p.m. Friday it had been mapped by a FIRIS aircraft at 466 acres. At least 150 acres of the fire are within the Mariposa giant sequoia grove in the south end of Yosemite National Park two miles southeast of Wawona, a community that is under an evacuation order. An evacuation map has been posted and the south entrance to the park is closed.
As of the Monday night mapping data, the southeast of Jackson, CA has been burning entirely within the footprint of the huge Butte Fire that blackened more than 70,000 acres in 2015 and led to two deaths and 135 destroyed homes. https://wildfiretoday.com/tag/electra-fire/
The spread of the Rices Fire in Northern California north of Bridgeport west of French Corral slowed overnight. The latest size estimate from CAL FIRE is 769 acres. https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/06/28/rices-fire-prompts-evacuations-in-nevada-county-in-northern-california/
A smokejumper was seriously injured Sunday May 15 during a training parachute jump. Ben Elkind sustained a dislocated hip and pelvic fracture during a hard landing. During surgery at the hospital they found six fractures and placed three plates and 10 screws to repair the damage.
Ben has spent a lot of time and effort over the last year in an effort to help improve the pay and working conditions of wildland firefighters.
He is going to be laid up for a while. A GoFundMe account has been established.
GoFundMe account has been established
A retired fire chief died in a Nebraska fire that has burned 41,155 acres in the southwest part of the state. The is west of the towns of Cambridge and Wilsonville and has crossed both US 34 and State highway 89. About 1,500 acres of the blaze is in Kansas. (More information and photo credits are at the link below)
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/04/25/retired-fire-chief-killed-in-nebraska-wildfire/
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