Wildfire Today - News and opinion about wildland fire
3 days ago · Squilchuck Road Fire. Credit: Chelan County Emergency Management. The evacuations happened just two days after Washington Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz held an “end-of-wildfire-season ...
PBS explains how fire whirls and fire tornados form
Sep 2, 2021 · 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 ...
Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires burn together, spread …
Apr 24, 2022 · The red dots represent heat detected by a satellite at 2:45 a.m. MDT April 24. As the wind speeds decreased from the gale force conditions seen Friday, firefighters on the Calf Canyon and Hermits ...
Border 32 Fire southeast of San Diego prompts evacuations
Sep 1, 2022 · Border 32 Fire, looking southeast from Lyons Peak at 4:52 p.m. Aug. 31, 2022. At 4:34 p.m. the fire had burned an estimated 1,446 acres. The Incident Commander has requested a very large number of ...
Wind-driven wildfire burns hundreds of homes near Boulder, …
Dec 30, 2021 · The map shows the APPROXIMATE location of the Marshall Fire and the direction of spread, 3:15 p.m. MST Dec. 30, 2021. There are reports that the fire southeast of Boulder, Colorado, now known as ...
Updates on four large wildfires in New Mexico - Wildfire Today
May 17, 2022 · At 299,565 acres it has eclipsed the previous record set by the 297,845-acre Whitewater and Baldy Fires when they burned together in May of 2012 in Southwest New Mexico. On Tuesday it was again ...
Radford Fire near Big Bear Lake in Southern California prompts ...
Sep 7, 2022 · The fire is south of the Snow Summit Ski area. Updated at 8:02 p.m. PDT Sept. 7, 2022. The Radford Fire at Big Bear Lake in Southern California was mapped at 1,052 acres at about 12:30 p.m. The ...
Analyzing the fire that burned into Gatlinburg - Wildfire Today
On Monday, December 5, the Incident Management Team (IMT) on the Chimney Tops 2 Fire that burned from Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) into the Gatlinburg area reported that it has ...
The True Story of the Pulaski Fire Tool - Wildfire Today
Aug 19, 2019 · Chrome plated pulaski presented to a retiring firefighter. On this day 109 years ago the fires of 1910 were burning across northern Idaho, Western Montana, and parts of Washington and Oregon. But ...
Six Minutes for safety calendar - Wildfire Today
Bill Gabbert May 20, 2010 Uncategorized safety. This calendar was created and maintained by Kathy Komatz of the National Park Service and the Six Minutes for Safety Work Group. Kathy recently won ...