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When a hurricane becomes a wildfire

July 21, 2013 By Kat Sonia Thomson Leave a Comment
A firefighter surveys the damage in Breezy Point, one of many neighborhoods destroyed by fire during Hurricane Sandy. (Photo: Brad Hamilton.)

Just after midnight on October 30, 2012, Chief Robert Maynes, Borough Commander of Queens, in New York City, found himself in chest-high surge waters from the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of a hurricane. As he waded his way to the scene of Box 1407 at Beach 130th Street in Belle Harbor, he came upon […]

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Mapping the burning bush

July 21, 2013 By Ron Steffens Leave a Comment
Mapping the Burning Bush

A map is a mark of our lives in time, a journey transcribed. And it was a map, in part, that drew me to Australia, to better understand what fire maps can mean in our climate-change era, and to learn how a robust commitment to geospatial knowledge can help us manage what may be our […]

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Reducing the risks of prescribed fire: The Evan Thomas Burn

July 21, 2013 By Rick Arthur Leave a Comment
In Alberta, Canada, aerial heli-torch ignition combined with fuel amendments allow for safe management of an August prescribed burn. The burn was reverse-engineered to both mimic and prevent the stand-replacing fires typical of conifer forests in the Northern Rockies. (Photo: Rick Arthur - Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development.)

  The 1936 fire season in Alberta was long, hot and dry and had taken its toll on men and equipment by early August. The numbers of fires, persistence needed to control and extinguish them, limited resources and long distances with little access were all factors in wearing down the fledgling Alberta Forest Service that had been established […]

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Photo-essay: A strike team of engines…

July 21, 2013 By Jeff Shelton Leave a Comment
Orange County Fire Authority - Fire Behavior Decision Support

Over the seasons, Jeff Shelton has brought his camera to the fireline and captured the routine of daily life and work of a Southern California strike team. Shelton is stationed on the edge of the Cleveland National Forest in Silverado Canyon and is working his twenty-fifth season in fire. Having deployments from San Diego to […]

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Recent articles in the International Journal of Wildland Fire

July 9, 2013 By IAWF Executive Director Leave a Comment

IAWF members have free online access to all research articles and back issues, a great member benefit. The IAWF member page directs you to the Journal, where you can search for your paper, author and/or fire subject of interest. All papers that have been accepted, even those not yet published in hard copy, can be […]

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How much time does it take for a wildland firefighter to reach a safety zone?

July 9, 2013 By Martin E. Alexander, Gregory J. Baxter and Gary R. Dakin Leave a Comment
Chart - travel rates for escape route study

Good question. When fire behavior becomes threatening, wildland firefighters disengage the fire and travel along escape routes to reach safety zones to avoid being entrapped or burned-over. In spite of the fact that the concept of escape routes has been a formally recognized element of wildland firefighter safety for almost 55 years, there is surprisingly […]

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IAWF Awards Student Scholarships

July 9, 2013 By IAWF Executive Director Leave a Comment

This is the seventh year the IAWF will be awarding two scholarships valued at $2,500 to promote the scholarly pursuits and graduate-level training within the global wildland fire community. The 2013 scholarship program received several applicants from students around the world in a range of science disciplines including social, environmental and physical sciences. This year’s […]

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Hardwired: That’s the way we work

July 8, 2013 By Mike DeGrosky Leave a Comment

THOUGHTS ON LEADERSHIP. We understand leadership in many ways: as a function of personality, as behaviors in which we engage, as the ability to influence and persuade others, as our style, and our ability to adapt to the situation, as charisma, credibility, and the ability to inspire and motivate. All serve to explain some aspect of […]

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How did we get here?

July 8, 2013 By Ron Steffens Leave a Comment

BRIEFING: Farmers, baseball fans and firefighters all talk about the coming season. This year, in our corner of Wyoming, the talk is of wet months and dry and a hope for a normal summer of thunderstorms. Yet, along with most of the West, we’re in long-term drought. Spring flushed green with hints of a normal […]

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Backstory, Part II: It’s still about the WUI facts

July 8, 2013 By Dan Bailey Leave a Comment
Chart: Structures lost by decade.

FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK. As you may recall from the previous column, the absence of basic statistical information about the U.S. wildland fire problem — specifically, the wildland/urban interface (WUI) — is frustrating to those of us in the wildland community. In the last column, the final discussion about the 46 million homes in the WUI […]

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When a hurricane becomes a wildfire

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Mapping the burning bush

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Reducing the risks of prescribed fire: The Evan Thomas Burn

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Photo-essay: A strike team of engines…

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Recent articles in the International Journal of Wildland Fire

Safety and Health

How much time does it take for a wildland firefighter to reach a safety zone?

Fire Science

IAWF Awards Student Scholarships

Thoughts on Leadership

Hardwired: That’s the way we work

Briefing

How did we get here?

President's Desk

Backstory, Part II: It’s still about the WUI facts

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