2 days ago · News and opinion about wildland fire. When the fires started burning in Los Angeles this month, firefighters from around the country streamed into California to help, including Kelly Martin.

Dec 17, 2024 · An aerial firefighting company will soon introduce a new aircraft to the United States’ wildfire suppression arsenal as it begins upgrading a portion of its air tanker fleet.

Jan 13, 2025 · The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released a memorandum to each executive department and agency head moments after Trump’s order ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Italy has seen massive recent increases in both burned areas and the total number of fires, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).. The nation had abnormally high ...

Dec 21, 2024 · Erickson Air-Cranes on northern hemisphere service, October 2021 in Greece. Photo by Dimitris Klagos. The National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC) has contracted 177 aircraft on behalf of ...

Oct 6, 2024 · North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum declared a statewide fire emergency as wildfires killed one person and triggered numerous evacuations.. The state’s forest service is fighting multiple fires mainly ...

Oct 16, 2024 · The Yellow Lake Fire has burned 32,919 acres of Utah’s Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and is at 29% containment as of Wednesday morning, officially making it the state’s largest wildfire ...

Oct 3, 2024 · The Elk Fire burning throughout Wyoming’s Big Horn National Forest near the town of Dayton triggered evacuations late Tuesday night and expanded evacuation warnings for nearby residents ...

Feb 26, 2011 · Forest fires burn at 800°C (1,472° F) to 1200°C (2,192° F). In an article we quoted earlier, a reporter wrote that forest fires burn at 4,000°F.

6 days ago · This isn’t the first time a federal-wide hiring freeze enacted by Trump caused mass confusion for wildland firefighters. He ordered a similar freeze in 2017 after he took office.