Here’s what to pack Get Boiling Point, our newsletter about building a sustainable California How do wildfires get their names? What it means for a fire to be ‘contained’ 2 fires outside of California Lane 1 OR 25,951 acres burned Burning for 173 days 99% contained Horton AZ 8,337 ...
“In your mind, you see the fire, you know where it is going, and you know where it will stop. Only then do you light the fire.” Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World, by MR O’Connor Close your eyes the next time you are preparing to start a prescribed fire project and...
The Bridge Fire is now the largest wildfire burning in California, having scorched 81 square miles and dozens of homes. Time-lapse video shows how the fire grew in the mountains behind the Los Angeles skyline during hot weather earlier in the week and ma
ThePoint Fire, burning in the wine country area of Sonoma, north of San Francisco, was 75% contained by Friday, according to Cal Fire. The blaze had spread over 1,207 acres of land extending southeast from the bottom of Lake Sonoma. Firefighters had contained 20% of the Point Fire, burn...
2013). Fire suppression policies and removal of indigenous burning practices led to increased fire return intervals, and subsequent conifer encroachment contributed to higher woody fuel loads. However, in recent decades, fire return intervals have shortened significantly in some areas, and the area ...
There are now 367 wildfires burning in California. In the Bay Area, where fires are burning in every direction from San Francisco, the air quality is currently among the worst in the world. There’s an eerie orange glow in my apartment in Oakland, and ash is falling outside. The smoke ...
The Jennings Creek Fire on the New York-New Jersey border is now about 70% contained after burning more than 4,700 acres. CBS News correspondent Tom Hanson has more. Nov 15, 2024 02:39 18-year-old dies in New Jersey area wildfire ...
California’s Park Fire has exploded in size, scorching an area about the size of Los Angeles and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scramble to meet the danger. More than 130 structures have been destroyed so far. (AP video/ Noah Berger) 2 of 21 | A burning car pushed into...
However, in California so called environmentalists have put through laws which allow the build up of dense waste material on the forest floor for years, which in the past nature addressed with natural burning. Due to these forced buildups, when the ignition spark finally comes such fires are...
consistent with our conclusions. In our simulations, fires under the Progressive suppression scenario had equivalent fire severity to unsuppressed fires burning under less fire-conducive conditions—in other words, effectively reversing the impacts of climate change or fuel accumulation by one to nearly ...