The DNR’s Wildland Fire Division used federal grant money to wrap 10 cache trailers with prevention messaging and Smokey Bear logo. Smokey Bear rides on top of a U.S. Forest Service (USFS) truck in ...

For many Californians, the destruction of entire neighborhoods by wildfires evokes memories of the devastating 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed the town of Paradise.

County officials told The Post that they had put five engines, a dozer team, and an additional wildland hand crew at their camp in the hills above central Malibu, near where a fire had ravaged ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) Conservation (Fire) Camp Program allows incarcerated ... International Association of Wildland Fire's website, said his ...

While experts say the devastating 2018 Camp ... Lahaina Fire in Maui, which took more than 100 lives and cost about $5.5 billion in damages. The Maui Wildfire was the fifth deadliest wildland ...

But when the fires are finally out, he won't be going back to his family: He'll be returning to the prison "fire camp" where he's ... inmates can become certified wildland firefighters.

My experiences as a wildland firefighter and work with Utah State University Extension could provide a few insights. In June of 2012, I was assigned to the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado. The fire ...

In November 2018, the Camp Fire razed most of the northern Californian ... Rather than building homes that back directly onto wildland, the town is exploring the use of buffer zones—areas ...

Fire camp participants have also long struggled ... Johnson, 34, had experience on the frontlines of wildland firefighting. “You can barely breathe and you have to move so fast.

“[I]ncarcerated wildland firefighters who have lived in fire camp for some time typically parole with sizable amounts of money, relative to other prisoners in CA,” he wrote. “[T]hey eat good ...

Teen inventor Ryan Honory recalls being traumatized by the deadly Camp wildfire in 2018 in Northern California. It killed 68 ...

They also prevented flames from spreading to the nearby camp trailer and home. Officials with the Newton Fire Department expressed gratitude for the dispatchers at Logan City 911 and the firefighters ...