by admin | Jul 18, 2018 | Fire news
Dozens of forest wildfires raged across Sweden Wednesday, prompting Stockholm to ask for emergency EU help to fight the blazes, which broke out during an extreme heatwave in the Nordic region. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) said two Italian firefighting...
by admin | Jul 18, 2018 | Innovation related
Fires are raging across California in what’s been an early and deadly start to this year’s fire season. But the truth is: fire season never really stopped. “We’re responding to wildland fires year round now,” California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal...
by admin | Jul 15, 2018 | First Responders
Firefighter Braden Varney is survived by his wife and two small children, Cal Fire says. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A second-generation California firefighter who was using a bulldozer to prevent a wildfire from spreading was killed Saturday near Yosemite...
by admin | Jul 13, 2018 | Fire news
Members of the Oregon Department of Forestry and cadets from Oregon Air Patrol attend a training on how to reload retardant into firefighting aircraft on Thursday, July 12, 2018, at Salem Municipal Airport. Statesman Journal Oregon will enter the hottest time of the...
by admin | Jul 6, 2018 | Fire news, Innovation related
Swan Valley firefighters MacKinnon Pruett, left, and Destri Vias, right, get ready to leave the spike camp to head out on the Spring Creek Fire on July 4, 2018 in La Veta. The seven staffers within the Costilla County administration office are pulling 12- to 16-hour...
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