Everything is different. Fire season was the time of year in every part of our country when there was the possibility of a wildland fire. Yes, everywhere – from New Jersey to Florida ...

Improving access to information for wildland fire incident operations would improve public safety through effective fire containment. Funded through a Cooperative Agreement with the National Institute ...

Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

Its purpose is to show how conditions such as wind speed and direction can affect a fire's spread and to show how firefighters use firelines and backfires to control a wildland fire.

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban interface.

Frampton said the DNRC was successful in finding enough local and non local wildland firefighters for the season.

And strong Santa Ana winds are about to make things worse, potentially erasing fire crews' progress in containing the fires. "Lots of times on a wildland fire assignment, you're either on the defense ...

"The resources just aren't there for fighting that kind of fire." He said the problem is what firefighters call the wildland-urban interface. "The urban interface is where the houses mix with ...

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban ...