Fire Controller News Today

Just why Western Australia's highly influential EPA wants to cap annual prescriptive burning at 200,000ha on the basis of no science and no supporting data is a mystery. If the government sides with those who seek to make firefighting more dangerous, costly and less effective, then the politicians who go along to get along must expect to be held rudely accountable when things go off the rails.

Nearly 80 years later, the remains of two LaPorte, Ind., brothers killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor have been identified. They will receive a second funeral and be reburied next month.