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Powerline Fire in Big Bend National Park nearing full containment
A wildland fire started in Big Bend National Park, Texas, around 5:00 PM on Monday, February 1st, when heavy winds caused a power line to fall. The fire […]
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Texas’ Significant Wildfire Potential
According to Texas Forest Service’s Dispatch Tracker, the weekend produced multiple red flag warnings and 20 new fires totalling over 1,700 burned acres in the State of Texas. Despite the weekend’s […]
Education
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 […]
Education
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 […]
Current Fires
2015 Wildfire Acreage Tops 10 Million for the First Time
2015 was a significant year for wildfires with the total acreage cresting 10 million for the first time on record. To put it in perspective, 10 million acres […]
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 […]
Education
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 […]
Education
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, […]
Wildfire 101
Wildfire 101: Fire Anatomy
Wildland firefighters use very specific terminology to describe the various parts of a fire. The fastest-moving portion is designated the “head” of the fire, the sides of the […]
Education
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 […]
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