Wildfire Today - News and opinion about wildland fire
3 days ago · A total of 1,219 fires have burned 90,836 acres across Utah in 2024, according to Utah Fire Info. The Yellow Lake Fire is by far the state’s largest fire of the year, followed by the Silver King ...
PBS explains how fire whirls and fire tornados form
Sep 2, 2021 · He said the average size of a fire whirl is usually 33 to 100 feet, with rotational velocities of 22 to 67 MPH. But a fire tornado dominates the large scale fire dynamics. They lead to extreme ...
Fish Fire near Sundance, Wyoming prompts evacuations
10:20 p.m. MDT July 31, 2022. Map showing the location of the Fish Fire at 12:43 p.m. MDT July 31, 2022. The Fish Fire 8 miles south-southeast of Sundance, Wyoming is prompting evacuations south ...
The True Story of the Pulaski Fire Tool - Wildfire Today
Aug 19, 2019 · Chrome plated pulaski presented to a retiring firefighter. On this day 109 years ago the fires of 1910 were burning across northern Idaho, Western Montana, and parts of Washington and Oregon. But ...
Analyzing the fire that burned into Gatlinburg - Wildfire Today
On Monday, December 5, the Incident Management Team (IMT) on the Chimney Tops 2 Fire that burned from Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) into the Gatlinburg area reported that it has ...
Recent Fires - Wildfire Today
Numerous late-season wildfires in Northeast U.S. an omen of things to come. Wildfire suppressants dumped nearly a million pounds of toxic metals into the West U.S. Wildfires and smoke are becoming ...
New California law requires seller of home to disclose vulnerability …
Jan 7, 2021 · Not so. California law requires a seller to disclose to a prospective transferee of real property if the property is located within a very high fire hazard severity zone (a “VHFHS Zone”) and ...
At what temperature does a forest fire burn? - Wildfire Today
Feb 26, 2011 · An average surface fire on the forest floor might have flames reaching 1 metre in height and can reach temperatures of 800°C (1,472°F) or more. Under extreme conditions a fire can give off ...
Researchers conduct detailed case study of the Camp Fire
Feb 11, 2021 · On a brisk November morning in 2018, a fire sparked in a remote stretch of canyon in Butte County, California, a region nestled against the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Fueled by ...
Mountain IHC Entrapment and Burnover Investigation | 9. By 1938, the Yarnell Hill Fire was an estimated 100 acres. The fire was approximately one mile from structures in Peeples Valley and 2.5 ...