Wildfire Today - News and opinion about wildland fire
网页3 天之前 · News and opinion about wildland fire. “On the east side of the fire, near the Little Missouri River, the North Dakota National Guard is utilizing a helicopter to perform water drops to help ...
Recent Fires - Wildfire Today
网页Recent Articles. ‘Unprecedented’ Wyoming wildfire expands evacuations and burns nearly 50,000 acres. Arctic wildfires ‘rapidly’ burning permafrost, causing more intense wildfires. Oregon ...
Wildfire Archives - Wildfire Today
网页6 天之前 · The wildfire has threatened over 65,000 structures since it first began on Sept. 5, with 9,200 of those structures under evacuation orders, Cal Fire officials said. A 34-year-old man was arrested ...
Idaho wildfire spreads toward isolated town, smoke restricts aircraft
网页2024年8月26日 · Wildfire quickly spreads toward isolated Idaho town, but massive smoke plumes restrict help from aircraft. The Wapiti Fire has burned 68,123 acres of the Boise National Forest in Idaho as of ...
How one Forest had 120 fires in the last two years but only burned …
网页2021年12月7日 · Wrangle Fire Siskiyou #282, Aug. 2021. USFS photo by Grand Ronde Engine 113. Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest. When Merv George Jr. agreed to our first meeting (that was in June), I took a ...
smoke Archives - Wildfire Today
网页2024年8月5日 · Bolivian government officials said a record 11,576 active fires burned in the region on July 24, with 165,999 fires detected since the start of July. Brazilian authorities also estimated this was ...
Scientists confirm that nighttime wildfire activity is increasing
网页2021年11月16日 · In a study of wildfires in the conterminous United States from 2003 to 2020 researchers found that while fire activity increased during the day in the 18-year period, it increased even more at ...
PBS explains how fire whirls and fire tornados form
网页2021年9月2日 · He said the average size of a fire whirl is usually 33 to 100 feet, with rotational velocities of 22 to 67 MPH. But a fire tornado dominates the large scale fire dynamics. They lead to extreme ...
Drones are playing an increasingly important role in fighting …
网页2022年10月5日 · FVR-90, N170WA. By Andrew Avitt, US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region. Drones – also called UAS or unmanned aerial systems – are playing an increasingly important role in fighting ...
Record-breaking fires, COVID-19, and impacts on firefighters
网页2024年3月19日 · It’s been four years since a near-perfect storm hit the U.S. West. COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020, just months before the worst ...