Greece is battling "the largest wildfire ever recorded" in the European Union, prompting the bloc to mobilize almost half of its firefighting air wing to help tackle it, a European Commission spokesman said Tuesday. Eleven planes and one helicopter from the EU fleet have been sent to help Gree...
towns and wilderness northwest of Los Angeles became the largest blaze ever officially recorded in California on Friday, authorities said. The fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties had scorched 273,400 acres, or about 427 square miles of coastal foothills and national forest, according...
Stavros sees the fingerprints of climate change in the Bobcat fire and inCalifornia’s historic 2020 fire season. “Four of the five largest fires ever recorded in California were burning at the same time as the Bobcat fire,” she said. “Climate change contributes to megafir...
The most recent outbreak in eastern Oregon, which began in 2008, has affected over 250,000 acres and is the largest ever documented in the State. As previous outbreaks have not been well-described, a cooperative research effort was undertaken to examine infestation characteristics and assess the ...
“We use our planned ignitions to bring the fire to somewhere on our terms, rather than have that happen with a wind event or as the forest dries out.” Around homes, communications towers and other infrastructure, including gas-industry operations, Healey says, “that’s whe...
“We use our planned ignitions to bring the fire to somewhere on our terms, rather than have that happen with a wind event or as the forest dries out.” Around homes, communications towers and other infrastructure, including gas-industry operations, Healey says, “that’s where...
(like obstructions in the area of the airport etc.) and other important information. These are great to listen to when you first arrive at the airport to watch planes but since it continually transmits you will want to lock it out pretty quickly. The recorded messages are usually a minute...
Blob 1 is the largest and longest MHW ever recorded between 1981 to 2017, not only for NEP, but in general [49,50,51]. Now, because Blob 2 is an ongoing process and, as for June 2021, there is no sign of a soon end, much from this important MHW event is still be expected. ...
merged with the other individual fires, they formed the August Complex, which burned over 404,685 ha (1,000,000 acres) by early October, the most ever recorded by a single fire event in CA. The uncontrollable nature of this megafire cost over$115 million and a firefighter’s life [2]...
collects and records data. Consider it a record of everything that HAS happened and everything that COULD HAVE happened… along with a potential for anything that COULD happen in the future. But mostly the first two things, because those are the more concrete things which can be recorded. ...