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HOUSTON, June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the U.S. Forest Service signed a Space Act Agreement this week that unites the two agencies in raising awareness about the importance of fire prevention and fire safety. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) This partnership will highlight areas of common interest in wildfires, forest and plant growth research and materials science. The joint effort will be enhanced by the personal interest of...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A conspiracy between Nature’s forces has sent walls of fire ripping through Colorado sending residents, officials, and first responders scrambling into action. One of the more devastating fires, the Waldo Canyon fire, has forced more than 32,000 people in and around Colorado’s second-most-populous city of Colorado Springs from their homes. The blaze, which began Saturday, is just 15 percent contained, according to the daily...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team is in Colorado and New Mexico as wildfires continue to torch large swaths of the nation's west. Chaplains are currently offering emotional and spiritual care in the Ruidoso/Capitan area of New Mexico, and in the Fort Collins area of Colorado. Chaplains deployed to both locations on June 14, shortly after the fires began. News agencies are reporting that the "Little Bear Fire" in New...

Website Offers Wildfire News Organized by Topic, Country WASHINGTON, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- /EIN News/ EIN News, a leading media monitoring company, has added Wildfire News Today (wildfires.einnews.com) to its vast portfolio of websites that provide breaking news on industry, business, politics, sports, entertainment and many other topics.The website provides continuous news coverage of wildfires, see e.g.:- Wildfire Prevention News -...

Nearly half of the United States' airborne fire suppression equipment was operating over Colorado on June 25, 2012, CNN reported, as tens of thousands of acres burned. Fires raged in southwestern Colorado, northeastern Colorado, and multiple locations in between. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on June 23, 2012. Red outlines approximate the locations of actively burning fires. The High Park and Weber Fires...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wildfire, the global leader in social media marketing software, today announced it will now offer brands complete brand channel management on the world's largest video platform. With this announcement, Wildfire is the first social marketing company to integrate with Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube, and now enables brands to reach YouTube's 800 million monthly visitors through automated brand...

SAN DIEGO, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With wildfire season already off to a dramatic start, MIR3, Inc., the innovator of real-time Intelligent Notification and response technology, is urging employers and municipalities to review their current business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plans to keep people safe and operations running if a wildfire threatens. According to the Denver Post, as of last week the High Park fire had already burned through 50,000 acres of Larimer...

ARLINGTON, Va., June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Smoke from wildfires hung over Huntsville, Texas during the summer of 2011. Sean James, an eight-grader, watched with his family as the rainless, hot summer worsened the already existing drought and wildfires. In his first-place winning entry for the 2012 Earth Day Photo and Essay Contest, Sean conveyed his shock that an area so damaged by the devastating wildfires could recover so quickly. Sean's photograph captures a scene in...

FREDERICA, Del., June 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ILC Dover, the manufacturer of innovative protective equipment for the most demanding applications including spacesuits for NASA and gas masks for the military, announced today that the recent wildfires in New Mexico and across the west have created an increased interest in its SCape® CO/CBRN 30 escape mask, which will be available to the public beginning July 2012. The NIOSH-approved respirator is the only one available that protects...

LYONS, Ore., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As wildfires rage in many western states with reports that resources are stretched thin, many wildfire suppression resources sit idle. Over 10,000 private trained wildland firefighters are ready for assignment, however, to date very few of them have been utilized. Over 40% of the resources used by the federal agencies on fires have been professional private resources historically. Many fire contractors have within their ranks many years of...