In 2014 the Forest Service launched a fire shelter review project. They worked with 23 different organizations on the effort, including engineers from NASA.

The Forest Service began using its new shelter, known as the M-2002, in the year 2002. It was the M-2002 that the Granite Mountain Hotshots deployed in the Yarnell Hill Fire in 2013. “They all ...

The USFS-designed shelter, -- the M-2002 -- was what the Granite Mountain Hotshots deployed on their final mission. “They all had the new fire shelter. But it still didn’t save them,” Roth ...

Cal Fire reported that 300 personnel, four helicopters, 70 engines, two dozers, three water tenders and other crews had been ...

California’s largest wildfire of the year grew to an estimated 70,801 acres Friday, producing smoke that has affected ...

Nick Pape, Shelter Cove fire chief, later spoke with a U.S. Forest Service representative who told him these funds, which came from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (also known ...

Multiple fires were ignited within the Klamath National Forest after lightning storms rolled through the area this week. One ...

The Roan High Knob Shelter — at 6,275 feet the highest on the entire 2,197-mile trail — is also closed now, with USFS citing in both cases that “the shelters are degrading and pose a threat ...

The Roan High Knob Shelter — at 6,275 feet the highest on the entire 2,197-mile trail — is also closed now, with USFS citing in both cases that “the shelters are degrading and pose a threat ...

The fire that’s in the Holly Shelter Game Lands was caused by a lightning strike on August 2nd. The North Carolina Forest Service revised the size of the fire, down from 2,000 acres, after more ...

Remove from service and do not carry on the fireline any fire shelter that does not meet the 5100-606 requirements. The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s Equipment Technology Committee has ...

The fire is burning more than 1,200 acres in Holly Shelter Game Land. ... Forest Service personnel contained the fire, but on Aug. 10, it escaped containment. Still, no homes, ...