Wildland firefighting

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,...
[Alarm sounding] [Music playing "When the Saints"] [Singing] Oh, when the saints go marching in I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Oh when the sun refuse to...
At the north end of Cascade, we will take Highway 22, northeast to Warm Lake. And turn south to the 474 road, very close to the South Fork Salmon River Campground; and follow the 474 road about 6...
There's been major grass growth across New South Wales in the last year, making the risk of life-threatening grass fires very real. There are things you need to do now. And things...
Fighting a forest fire takes some doing. It means equipment. Pumps, pulaskis, dozers. But equipment alone wonít put out a fire like this. It takes man. Man and his ability to make the right decision...
Today we will be traveling about one to three hours from Boise, Idaho north along Highway 55 to the very small community of Banks. Turning east at Banks, we will then follow Highway 17, also known as...
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...
Driving to Ketchum, Idaho by TravelPod member jodieandandy Road to Ketchum, Idaho by TravelPod member jodieandandy Farms and mountains by TravelPod member jodieandandy Magnificent scenery by TravelPod...