By Reuters | April 28, 2023, at 7:34 p.m. Save More California's Fire Season Under Way Weeks After Heavy Rain and Snow More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Firefighters work as the Mosquito Fire burns in Foresthill, Calif
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Firefighters in California are making progress in the state's largest blaze but the peak fire season has not even begun. And given the extreme temperatures and drought conditions, authorities remain vigilant. For local residents, that means taking precautions now. For more, check out our exclusive...
would be on the fire's west flank and northern edge near Wrightwood, where airtankers dropped retardant on the flames in steep, rugged areas inaccessible to ground crews."A lot of good work. We're really beating this up and starting to make some good progress," Freguila said. He said a...
Cal Fire attributes this fire season to two consecutive wet winters that allowed vegetation to grow, a mild fire season over that timeframe, and climate change. "With the extreme heat we experienced in June and we're continuing to have in July, the fuels are completely dried out," Cal Fir...
1.28 million housing units were at risk of extreme wildfire damage in California in 2023 — the most of any other state [4] 2023 fire season in California saw a large decrease in the number of wildfires and total acreage burned— compared to the 5-year average — due to proactive managem...
scenario (RCP8.5). The large fire season will be more intense and have an earlier onset and delayed end. Our findings suggest that despite the lack of a contemporary trend in fire regime, projected greenhouse gas emissions will substantially increase the fire danger in southern California by ...
more and longer responses in federal jurisdictions, Munsey said. Because many Forest Service stations are staffed only during the day and during fire season, local agencies that share borders with national forests are often the first to respond to wildland fires at night and during the ...
fire season; this threshold may be optimized in future work to maximize performance metrics for fire model forecasts. The resulting active line for each fire at each time step has the shape of a linestring (object representing a sequence of points and the line segments connecting them), a ...
Fire Season Rages in Southern California. (cover story)A photograph is presented of a wildfire in Camarillo, California in May 2013.EBSCO_bspWall Street Journal - Eastern Edition