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In my career I've worked for urban fire departments as well as federal wildland fire agencies. I've managed and directed many fires in the wildland urban interface as well as public wildlands and ...

Cal Fire released updated fire hazard maps for dozens of cities and towns in inland Northern California. All but one saw an ...

Deschutes County won’t join others that have asked the state to walk back its map assigning a wildfire hazard level to every ...

At least 25 people have died. The threat of fire is growing, especially in zones known as the wildland-urban interface, or WUI. That’s where unoccupied wildland and human developments meet and mingle.

The road was closed in both directions before reopening. Drivers in the area were asked to use caution when traveling.The Wildland Fire Management monitored until 9 p.m. Tuesday before resuming ...

“If we’re cutting any positions, that’s a bad thing,” Alonzo said. “I mean, just to support the wildland fire efforts ...we need as many hands on deck as we can get right now.

Many fires take place in areas where humans have overstepped into nature — also known as wildland-urban interface ... in the United States that are in a fire-risk area, based on the Federal ...

“It’s shocking, surprising that L.A. city does not have any type of wildland fire program,” said Steve Gutierrez, who has battled blazes in the area as a former Angeles National Forest ...

The parking restrictions will “allow for improved fire department access and resident evacuation,” on the “narrow and/or winding roads within Pasadena’s urban-wildland interface areas ...

Many fires take place in areas where humans have overstepped into nature — also known as wildland-urban interface ... in the United States that are in a fire-risk area, based on the Federal ...