The LA County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is
Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.
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It’s likely Los Angeles-like wildfires will come to Eagle County. Here’s how local fire and water entities are preparing.
Eagle County is at risk of experiencing a large-scale wildfire. “We’ve always been and we probably always will be,” said Hugh ...
The Desert Sun25d
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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Wildland Apparatus Destroyed in Laramie County, WY, Fire Station Blaze
CHEYENNE — A fire severely damaged Laramie County Fire Authority Station 74 on Saturday, destroying three wildland firefighting apparatus that were to be deployed to assist in fighting fires in ...
Science Friday24d
Fire Risk To Homes Where Cities And Wildlands Meet
including the fire districts, of course, but not just stopping there, local arborists, architects, the construction industry itself, they went through a very methodical process of going through a ...
Wyoming News29d
Three wildland firefighter trucks lost in Laramie County station fire
CHEYENNE — A fire severely damaged Laramie County Fire Authority Station 74 on Saturday, destroying three wildland firefighting apparatus that were to be deployed to assist in fighting fires in ...
Rolling Stone29d
What ‘Hotshot’ Reveals About the Life of California Wildland Firefighters
For more than six years, filmmaker Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann embedded with a crew of wildland ... “fire porn.” What do you think the line is between newsworthiness and fire porn? GKM: There is ...
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Fire in the Navajo Nation contained
The road was closed in both directions before reopening. Drivers in the area were asked to use caution when traveling.The Wildland Fire Management monitored until 9 p.m. Tuesday before resuming ...
The Washington Post24d
A key ‘weakness’ in L.A.’s wildfire strategy went unaddressed for years, Post probe shows
“It’s shocking, surprising that L.A. city does not have any type of wildland fire program,” said Steve Gutierrez, who has battled blazes in the area as a former Angeles National Forest ...