NASA tests drones to provide localized forecasting and aid in fire response
In Aug. 2024, a team of NASA researchers and partners gathered in Missoula, to test new drone-based technology for localized ...
How satellites and AI help fight wildfires today
Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human experience is still essential.
Op-Ed: Preventing out-of-control wildfires is possible, if the government permits
Certain fuels burn hotter and faster than others, a lesson quickly taught to new firefighters. “It lights up like gasoline” ...
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How do we keep a wildland fire from becoming an urban conflagration?
In my career I've worked for urban fire departments as well as federal wildland fire agencies. I've managed and directed many fires in the wildland urban interface as well as public wildlands and ...
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Fire Risk To Homes Where Cities And Wildlands Meet
The threat of fire is growing, especially in zones known as the wildland-urban interface ... so we have climate change exacerbating extreme wildfire behavior, and then we have ongoing development in ...
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Former Reedley College student explains how wildland fire program prepared him to become a hotshot
Like I've never seen fire behavior that aggressive," Moreno said ... He enrolled in the wildland firefighting course and graduated in 2023. Adam Hernandez was one of his instructors.
Reno high school wildfire science program enters second year
The Bureau of Land Management wildland firefighters started the second year of the Fire Science Career and Technical Education program.
Aurora firefighters return from LA with lessons, suggestions on fire safety
The brush crew from Aurora Fire Rescue that went and helped in the Los Angeles firefighting efforts said Coloradans need to ...