June 2025
Dear readers of Wildfire Today and Fire Aviation – we are excited to announce a new platform for communicating on wildland fire issues and activities around the world.
Wildfire Today/ Fire Aviation is dedicated to news about wildland fire and aerial firefighting around the world.
These sites began in 2008 as a blog for Bill Gabbert, a long-serving and dedicated United States fire manager, who handed them to the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) before his death in 2023 to continue them with a new future.
The IAWF has rebuilt and refreshed Wildfire Today and Fire Aviation into a single site to better suit our current and growing readership around the world.
This includes insights into major wildland fires, firefighter health and safety, community safety, prescribed fire, new science and technology advancements, Indigenous and cultural burning and land management, and the funding, resourcing and maintaining of wildland fire operations across the globe. And more.
The original blog sites served us well over many years but, like all forms of modern communication, we need to ensure they are stable and secure, and more flexible for a range of content types, including articles, videos, photos, social media and advertising.
Advertisements display better on the new site and are better integrated into the flow of editorial copy.
Importantly, all the original content is still here – articles, photos and comments. Two decades of content is a valuable resource to build upon for all of us with an interest in wildfire.
For Wildfire Today we will continue to draw from the breadth of knowledge and resources of the global wildfire community, including the IAWF membership and the expertise gained from publishing Wildfire magazine and the International Journal of Wildland Fire. The site is maintained by a team of experienced media professionals, including a former IAWF Director David Bruce, journalist Hunter Bassler, and editor of Wildfire magazine Laura King.
Your support is appreciated. Your contributions are needed. Please reach out to us via the Contact Us page for news tips, contributed articles and photos, comments on individual articles or for advertising options.
