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 ...

Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

In a memo that has not been previously reported, chief told city fire commissioners that L.A. relied almost entirely on ...

Chaparral, Calif.’s fire-adapted ecosystem, often goes overlooked. That is, except for when the high severity firestorms blaze through human communities. Chaparral was quickly lambasted during ...

At least 25 people have died. The threat of fire is growing, especially in zones known as the wildland-urban interface, or WUI. That’s where unoccupied wildland and human developments meet and mingle.

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban ...