May 2014 | Features
The Measure of a Mega-Fire
By Guest Writer
“It’s going to happen again...with or without climate change.” – John McAneney, talking about [Australia’s] Black Saturday.
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The Yarnell Hill Fire: A review of lessons learned
By Rich McCrea
On the afternoon of June 30, 2013, nineteen firefighters perished in a major fire blowup on the Yarnell Hill Fire (YH). This…
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The long slow burn of smouldering peat mega-fires
By Guest Writer
From Indonesia to Botswana, from Scotland to North Carolina, peat mega-fires burn for months, destroy habitat, clog the air with haze, and…
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Wildland Fire in Colorado: Technical Problems or Adaptive Challenges?
By Guest Writer
I took a look at the wildland fire situation in Colorado and asked, what critical factors are we not addressing?
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Defend or evacuate? I’ll decide later
By Guest Writer
Research shows that residents need triggers to take different actions under a variety of conditions.
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Why firefighters should embrace fire ecology
By Guest Writer
Without occasional fires throughout past centuries many of the valuable and iconic trees of American forests would have become scarce or absent
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