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 ...

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

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

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 ...

As a wildland firefighter who has ... and drew down water reserves to prevent the fire from taking hold in the dry grass and trees behind us, torching trees and buildings lit the night orange ...

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.

Both suggest that we have more control over fire disasters than we think, and both begin by redefining the problem. When catastrophic fires occur, experts often blame the so-called wildland-urban ...

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 ...