Latest Wildland fire suppression Stories
Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers. Fire season across most of the Amazon rain forest typically begins in May, peaks in September and ends in January. The new model, which forecasts the fire season’s severity from three to nine months in advance, calls for an average or below-average fire season this year within 10 regions...
Among National Parks Threatened With Unrestricted Construction and Road Building: Olympic, Glacier, Voyageurs, Isle Royale, Big Bend, Joshua Tree, Acadia and Saguaro; Sites in AK, AZ, CA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NM, ND, OH, TX and WA Seen As At Risk. WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Legislation pending in the U.S. House of Representatives that is being falsely touted as improving U.S. border security would instead "have the potential to devastate 54 of America's national...
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Pennsylvania's statewide trout season begins on April 14, prompting the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to urge anglers and other woodland visitors to take steps to prevent wildfires. "We ask trout anglers and other visitors to be extremely careful because fire danger ranges from high to very high across much of the state," DCNR Secretary Richard Allan said. "One act of carelessness could prove disastrous...
FireWhat attended the Oreilly 2012 Where Conference, and announced their new suite of products designed to keep people informed with up to the minute information about wildfires. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 05, 2012 FireWhat Inc., a small startup in Dunsmuir, CA, operates a website, firewhat.com, that maps and tracks wildfires. From coast to coast, those living near a current burning wildfire can monitor the situation. Weather affecting the fire can be monitored, as can local...
Where 2.0 is a world-renowned meeting of the minds focusing on location-based technology lead by O’Reilly Media. FireWhat Inc. has been invited to join the discussion. The staff will be presenting to the industry on their ideas to modernize the fire service. Dunsmuir, CA (PRWEB) March 27, 2012 O’Reilly Media is hosting its sixth annual Where Conference April 2-4 in San Francisco, CA. The conference focuses on the growing business of leveraging the location awareness due primarily...
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett has proclaimed March 18-24 Wildfire Prevention Week in Pennsylvania, noting a relatively warm and dry winter has greatly increased the risk of spring wildfires in much of the state. "Warm, sunny days and drying March winds can cause wildfire dangers to spike almost overnight," Corbett said. "Last spring, wet, cool weather proved to be firefighters' strongest ally, helping curb brush and woodlands fires...
LAS VEGAS, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Flameret, Inc. (OTCBB: FLRE) New York became the first state to ban the flame retardant chemical TCEP and many states are expected to follow. TDCP (another toxic flame retardant additive), also known as "chlorinated tris", was banned in the 1970's for use in children's sleepwear after the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission labeled the chemical as a probable cancer causing agent. However and at the outrage of many...
Pacific Southwest Research Station/USDA Forest Service Science that makes a difference... Even though wildfires have increased in size over time, they haven’t necessarily grown in severity nor had corresponding negative impacts to the ecosystem, according to a recently published study appearing in the journal Ecological Applications. A team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service and the University of California, Davis, assessed the size, severity and frequency of wildfires on four...
29 National Park Service Employees To Benefit From The Albright-Wirth Employee Development Fund WASHINGTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Proudly supporting initiatives that help protect, preserve and improve America's national parks, the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks, announced today that it awarded $122,370 to 29 National Park Service employees through its Albright-Wirth Employee Development Fund. The Albright-Wirth...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FireScope Inc., the leader in aligning customers' technology performance to their business and customer experiences, today announced the general availability of FireScope Unify version 5.0, marking the first appearance of a completely redesigned interface option named Nebula and significant enhancements to its Enterprise Service Bus, among many other enhancements. The Nebula interface, available as a user-configurable option,...
