The Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance, or TERA, is a Lake County-based group dedicated to changing attitudes around intentional ...
Even as I urged them to leave, from my home in the Mojave Desert, I was moved by a different compulsion: to get in my car, report to work and rush, via fire engine or helicopter, toward the fires. It ...
EXETER – A storeroom behind the headquarters of the state Forest Fire Program is ... They lend most of them out to local fire departments to keep on hand before any wildfires occur and then ...
Nvidia announced it teamed up with Lockheed Martin in 2021 and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest ... visibility. Fire departments across the state already use an AI tool, run by UC San ...
Fighting fire usually involves water or foam, but they can be messy and environmentally destructive. Engineers at Ohio State University have now developed handheld tools that cleanly extinguish ...
Three months ago, I worked the fireline in New York’s Sterling Forest, fighting what’s commonly known as the Jennings Creek fire ... are getting the helping hand they need.
Yet in October 2024, the U.S. Forest ... the fire slowed and changed course. Despite the risks, Marlon said, prescribed burns are one of the best tools with which California is equipped to prevent ...
The wind-driven fires quickly grew beyond the capacity of the Los Angeles crews on hand — here, the county has 16 fire ...
and it has become a standard tool for fighting wildfires. A common use for the Pulaski is in creating fire breaks -- sections of land devoid of vegetation which can help contain forest fires.
Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern ...
I'm a third-generation ground firefighter who ended up in the air fighting fire ... dropping 85,000 pounds of fire retardant on our target. It's a very good airplane for what we're doing — we're the ...