In Washington state, a U.S. Forest Service fire captain fears "situations where people call 911 and there aren’t enough ...

The Los Angeles County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians ... put it another way: Structural fires and wildland fires — and the interface is where the two come together. Just ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians ... Structural fires and wildland fires — and the interface is where the two come together.

Read more here. More on California wildfires: Between 1990 and 2020, nearly 45% of homes built in California were in “wildland-urban interface” areas where residential buildings are nestled right next ...

Since its launch in 2020, the grant program has allocated over $26 million to Tennessee fire departments.

For many wildland firefighters ... Jan. 17, 2025 As a firefighter, I first encountered this climate violence in 2020, when a record heatwave caused the Dolan fire in Big Sur to double in size ...

accounting for 78% of structures destroyed and 61% of suppression costs between 2001 and 2020." According to Iglesias, human development in fire-prone regions, especially in the wildland-urban ...

Support LAist by giving now. The L.A. area fires that have destroyed homes have also burned through thousands of acres of wildland that’s home to bears, mountain lions, squirrels and other animals.

In October 2020, a royal commission launched in the ... help and thinking of firefighting as seasonal work. “The U.S. wildland fire workforce was largely built on the foundation of seasonal ...

Sponsor Message Many residents run into roadblocks with insurance companies that hesitate to cover homes in the so-called "wildland-urban interface" that is prone to fires. To make homes more ...