Wildfire and Wildland-Urban Interface
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Regulators are facing insurance companies not renewing policies due to high risk
Wildfire in the Wharton State Forest is 75% contained according to latest update
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Leadership
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One Mooreland firefighter remains in critical but stable condition
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Advancements in flight distances and speed, object identification and transport, logistics and autonomy are moving almost as fast as the industry itself
Firefighter James C. Ward collapsed while fighting a fire in Scott County
The Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission members detail recommendations for a Senate committee
Maui Mayor Richard Bissen pledge to focus on housing, evacuation routes and additional firefighters in address
The Texas A&M Forest Service and Stanford University School of Medicine collected data from firefighters wearing an Apple Watch and air quality sensor
The Emergency Drinking Water for Wildland Firefighters program is an expansion of Anheuser-Busch’s longstanding tradition of providing emergency drinking water and supplies for disaster relief efforts
Jim Meyer suffered a broken vertebra and multiple skull fractures when the tree struck him during training
Each fire sensor will capture 30 readings of gases, particles and conditions; the sensors then use edge processing to transmit data to servers for AI analysis
Firefighters rescued a little black bear in the wake of fires in the Capitan Mountains in 1950
Texas A&M Forest Service investigators, Xcel Energy say lines, equipment caused the Smokehouse Creek fire burning nearly 1,700 square miles
Fritch Fire Chief Zeb Smith suffered a medical emergency during a structure fire
The Smokehouse Creek fire, the largest in state history, was 15% contained by Sunday
Residents of Stinnett returned after evacuating to find charred homes, dead livestock
The Smokehouse Fire has burned 1,300 square miles and crossed into Oklahoma
Several wildfires across the panhandle have forced evacuations, cut off power and destroyed several structures
Refugio Jimenez Jr. will serve one year for causing the El Dorado Fire that killed Big Bear Hotshot Charles Morton
Gary Stephen Maynard admitted to setting fires behind firefighters fighting the Dixie Fire and setting other wildfires
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