In Mid-December, Senior Fire Liaison Doug Lannon and I spent a few days surveying the damage from the Woolsey Fire. We toured the 16 mile long fire area with the…
Adam PrellFebruary 7, 2019
2018 Hurricane Season Quick Stats Each spring, several predictive services release their forecasts for the upcoming Hurricane Season, which officially runs June 1 – Nov 30. While named storms can…
RedZoneJanuary 23, 2019
2018’s fire season was another record breaking year; in particular, California was absolutely devastated in terms of lives and property lost. According to the National Interagency Fire Center in 2018,…
Adam PrellJanuary 18, 2019
Wildfire seasons in the recent years have been some of the deadliest and most destructive that our nation has seen to date because of three human influenced factors. In the…
Adam PrellJanuary 8, 2019
Looking Back at 2017-2018 Fire Seasons in California In 2017 the state of California experienced a fire season that seemed to surpass any other in recent memory. This disastrous fire…
Adam PrellDecember 13, 2018
The morning of November 30th, 2018, at 8:29 AM local time, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook the city of Anchorage, Alaska. The origin of the quake was 7 miles north…
Adam PrellDecember 6, 2018
RedZone Senior Wildfire Liaison Doug Lannon attended The Thomas Fire Retrospective Report discussion was held at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 at the Montecito Fire Protection District (FPD)…
Adam PrellNovember 29, 2018
Here we are dealing with yet another crazy autumn week of wildfire in California. As we noted earlier this fall, annually, Santa Ana Wind events cause new fire ignitions to…
Adam PrellNovember 20, 2018
On October 21st, 2018, Typhoon Yutu began its development as a tropical depression, east of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth. Just hours later, the storm reached tropical storm…
Adam PrellNovember 1, 2018
