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Fuel Reduction Practices and Purpose

The practice of hazardous fuel reduction is most often associated with moderating the flammable vegetation around the defensible space of individual homes and communities. But this proactive approach to fighting wildland fire comes in…

RedZoneJanuary 30, 2016

Education Fire Fighting

Smoke Color Can Depict Fuel Type

Smoke is made up of particulates, aerosols and gases, and identifying the characteristics of each in a given smoke plume can be helpful when fighting fires. Reading smoke can tell a firefighter what is currently…

RedZoneJanuary 23, 2016

Education

WildFire 101: Haines Index

Haines Index is used to indicate the potential for rapid fire growth due to dry and unstable atmospheric conditions over a fire area. The index is a simple way to measure…

RedZoneJanuary 13, 2016

Education Fire Fighting Wildfire 101

Wildfire 101: Lightning Activity Level (LAL)

The Lightning Activity Level (LAL) is a measurement of cloud-to-ground lightning activity observed (or forecasted to occur) within a 30 mile radius of an observation site. The LAL is…

RedZoneDecember 31, 2015

Education Fire Fighting Wildfire 101

Wildfire 101: Ignition

Since 2001, each wildfire season has averaged almost 73,000 ignitions and over 6.5 million acres burned in the U.S. Interestingly, the vast majority of these ignitions are human-caused, but the…

RedZoneDecember 29, 2015

Education Fire Fighting

NASA’s JPL announces plan for more advanced wildfire detection by 2018

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been refining a concept first proposed in 2011 for a network of space-based sensors called FireSat that would revolutionize the monitoring coverage of wildfires globally. …

RedZoneDecember 17, 2015

Education

California’s Fire Potential Outlook for December

Southern California: Normal significant wildland fire potential is expected for Southern California for the outlook period. Weather and Fuels: After a relatively wet early October, the weather over…

RedZoneDecember 8, 2015

Education Fire Fighting Wildfire impact

Top Ten Things You May Not Know About Wildland Fires

1) 90% of wildfires are human-caused Sources of anthropogenic wildfires are most often accidental ignition by campers, hikers, or garbage/debris burns...but some are purposely started by arsonists.. 2) But the majority of…

RedZoneDecember 1, 2015

Education Fire Fighting

What Warrants a Red Flag Warning from the National Weather Service?

Another Red Flag Warning was issued for Southern California late last week for very low humidities and strong offshore winds. But what factors actually warrant this official notice from the National Weather Service…

RedZoneNovember 17, 2015

Education

The DC-10 Very Large Air Tanker (VLAT)

Aerial firefighting involves the use of aircraft--both fixed-wing and rotary-wing--to combat wildfires. Among the fixed-wing type are air tankers and water bombers equipped with tanks that can be filled with fire retardant…

RedZoneNovember 13, 2015

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