Fallen wild land firefighters
Over the last decade we've seen standard placing wildfires that are uncharacteristic of their historic fire regime moving across the landscape and the y continue to get larger and larger as...
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A FORCE SO POWERFUL THAT AN INTERAGENCY FIRE CENTER DISPATCHES CREWS AND TECHNOLOGY FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE. FROM THE HIGHLY TRAINED SMOKE JUMPERS TO AVIATION EXPERTS,...
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We got to this spot and that's when fire crested this ridge to the west of us. You could hear the roar and then it just -- it seemed like that black smoke just burst into flames, and we had a...
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The interagency fire community in Alaska utilizes the Canadian forest fire danger rating system, commonly referred to as CFFDRS, for both fire danger and for fire behavior predictions. CFFDRS is a...
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Mark Hnat: When we have a medical emergency on a fire incident, three easy steps to help you solve it would be: evaluate your patient, evaluate where they need to go, and evaluate how you’re going to...
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After the 2010 IRPG came out we got a lot of feedback from the field. The 2014 IRPG includes those changes. First off, the color has been changed to lime green to set it apart from the older version....
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The goals of the academy-the basic goals are to promote firefighter safety and assist them in completing classes that will help them to be safe on the fireline and have the skills that they need. We...
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Wildfires flare once more in Russia’s Siberia. Fires that flared over the weekend had almost doubled in size to 3,700 acres within 24 hours as of Sunday, May 15. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry...
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Chainsaw Safety 2013 Closed Caption Human Factors are universal in all groups, and they are subject to the same limitations. But high reliability organizations consistently outperform others, even in...
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TRAVEL IS DONE BY DRIVING. VAN DRIVE MáS DE 50 MILLAS BUT THERE'S A BIT OF GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE DRIVERS ON THE ROAD... PARA LA ACCIóN DE GRACIAS. PERO HAY UN POCO DE NOTICIAS ROAD......
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