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NASA aircraft flies California wildfire
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 10 hours ago
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Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., was carried in a pod under the aircraft's wing. The scanner operates like a digital camera with specialized filters to detect light energy at visible,...
Tags: Southern California, NASA Dryden, Ikhana, U.S. Forest Service, modular scanner, autonomous modular, california wildfire, BAER, Los Angeles, Environment, Wildfire, Ecological succession, Edwards Air Force Base, Mountain View California, MQ-9 Reaper, Wildland fire suppression, Technology Internet, Disaster Accident, Occupational safety and health, NASA Ames Research Center
Progress made on fire; toll lanes open
Anaheim :: CA :: USA | about 12 hours ago
Credibility With winds gusting up to 53 mph, the blaze broke out just before 10 p.m. Tuesday near the Windy Ridge Toll Plaza. "It seemed to have laid down over night," said Capt. Greg McKeown of the Orange County Fire Authority. "It's kind of just slowly burning.
Tags: Orange County Fire Authority, Southern Calif., Anaheim Hills, Southern California, Anaheim, Anaheim Hills Anaheim California, Disaster Accident, Wildfire, Firefighter, Anaheim California, Environment, Santa Ana winds, Firebreak, OCFA, Winds, Orange California, Orange County California, Anaheim Fire Department, Fire apparatus, Climate of California, California State Route 241, Firefighting, Wildland fire suppression, California wildfires
L.A. County supervisors urge U.S. firefighting reforms
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 18 hours ago
Credibility The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors called on the federal government Tuesday to authorize the U.S. Forest Service to deploy water-dropping helicopters at night and make greater use of local reinforcements to battle blazes like the deadly Station...
Tags: Los Angeles County, Michael Freeman, U.S. Forest Service, LA County, The Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles, Disaster Accident, Environment, Angeles National Forest, Firefighter, Los Angeles County Fire Department, Board of Supervisors, Wildland fire suppression, California wildfires, United States Forest Service, Aerial firefighting, Kern County Fire Department, Labor, Wildfire, Local government in the United States, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Firefighting
Washington lawmakers review 'no man's land' fires
Sunnyside :: WA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Wash. — A half-dozen state lawmakers attended a meeting at Sunnyside where about 100 people discussed the response to the Dry Creek wildfire last August that burned 77 square miles...Pasco Fire Chief Bob Gear says residents in "no man's land" should form...
Tags: AM Washington, Sunnyside, Sunnyside Houston, Sunnyside Washington, Wildfire, Yakima Washington, Yakima County Washington, Occupational safety and health, Wildland fire suppression, Disaster Accident, Environment
Poll results: Faced with higher premiums and reduced coverage for fires started by equipment failures, utilities are proposing higher fees. Should consumers have to pay more?
Glendale :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Faced with higher premiums and reduced coverage for fires started by equipment failures, utilities are proposing higher fees. Should consumers have to pay more? Published: Last Updated Monday, November 23, 2009 4:59 PM PST For more polls, visit The...
Tags: Glendale, Wildfire, Healthcare reform in the United States, Insurance, Uninsured in the United States, Disaster Accident
Aussie bush fire conditions ease slightly
Rylstone :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Weather conditions have improved slightly for firefighters battling blazes in Australia's New South Wales, meteorologists said Sunday. Emergency fire warnings were eased for most parts of the state as a change in wind conditions brought some relief, the...
Tags: New South Wales, Australian Broadcasting Corp., fire services, fire crews, strong winds, cool change, firefighters battle, Rural Fire Service, emergency warning, Kandos, Australia, Rylstone, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Bushfire, Wildfire, Firefighter, 2006-07 Australian bushfire season, Wildland fire suppression, Bushfires in Australia, Fire, Disaster Accident, Environment, Kandos New South Wales, Wildfires, Black Saturday bushfires, Weather, Steve Whan, Walgett New South Wales, Gulgong New South Wales, Ambulance, Health Medical Pharma
Plea to protect our heritage
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 3 days ago
Credibility The call comes in the wake of a fire, supposedly human induced, which destroyed about half of the Sigatoka Sand Dunes park and reforestation site. Trust information officer Elizabeth Niumataiwalu said the fire started in a gully close to the Kulukulu...
Tags: Fiji Islands, Suva, National Trust of Fiji, Dune, Niumataiwalu, Sigatoka Sand Dunes, Vuanirewa, Sigatoka, Wildfire, Occupational safety and health, Wildland fire suppression, Disaster Accident
Victoria mops up, NSW on fire alert
Victoria :: Canada | 4 days ago
Credibility Temperatures hit 38 degrees before a cool change brought high winds which caused havoc on the roads across the state. More than 20 traffic lights went down across Melbourne and some 15,000 households in the city's outer west and parts of regional Victoria...
Tags: Victoria, Canada, Environment, Disaster Accident, Bushfires in Australia, Bushfire, Wildfires, Black Saturday bushfires, Australia, Blue Mountains, Weather, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Firefighter, 2006-07 Australian bushfire season, 1925-26 Victorian bushfire season, Lightning, Thunderstorm, Storm, Bilpin New South Wales, Wildfire, Kandos New South Wales, Fire, Wildland fire suppression
Station Fire investigation stalled
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Three months after the Station Fire burned thousands of acres in the hills above Los Angeles and killed two firefighters, investigators have no suspects. Sources told the Los Angeles Times investigators have determined an accelerant was used to start...
Tags: station fire, Los Angeles, Accelerant, Firefighting, Angeles National Forest, Firefighter, Disaster Accident, Law Crime, Arson, Wildfire, California wildfires, John Leonard Orr, Esperanza Fire, Old Fire, Tujunga Los Angeles California
ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history...Even as more people move into fire-prone wildlands...
Tags: area burns, higher temperatures, climate change, degrees celsius, temperatures rise, Washington, Wildfire, Fire, Black Saturday bushfires, Controlled burn, Drought, Wildland fire suppression, Ecological succession, Occupational safety and health, Environment, Disaster Accident
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