NASA demonstrates new wildland fire airspace management system
NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft to ...
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Description of "Wildfire Simulator"
the firefighters cut a line around the edge of the fire. Often this is done by hand, using chain saws, shovels, rakes, and Pulaskis (a combination ax and hoe that is unique to wildland firefighting).
The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting
Federal firefighting on public lands in the U.S. works like this: Resources rotate as the fire season progresses regionally.
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Firefighters gaining upper hand after more than 175 fires erupt in the Carolinas
More than 6.6 square miles of wildland have burned ... whose home abuts the Carolina Forest, said the fire spread to near their property line on Saturday. "Everything was on fire.
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Longview firefighters deployed to Lubbock to aid in fighting wildland fires
LUBBOCK, Texas (KLTV) - A team of Longview firefighters arrived in the Texas panhandle in an effort to monitor and fight wildland fires. The four members of the Longview Fire Department were assigned ...
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Wildfire Simulator
Its purpose is to show how conditions such as wind speed and direction can affect a fire's spread and to show how firefighters use firelines and backfires to control a wildland fire.