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The LANDFIRE (LF) program is working to increase the frequency of product releases and to reduce the latency of the LF products by producing annual version releases that reflect data less than one year behind current conditions and represent data conditions homologous to the growth that one would expect in areas of change/disturbances up to the year when the product

From U.S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire Science Strategic Plan, 2021–26:$71-$246 BILLIONNet annual economic impact of wildland fire across the U.S.

Justin Sullivan via Getty Images In 2020, California had over 9,900 wildfires, which burned a record 4.25 million acres and killed 33 people, according to the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire). It is time for California to rethink its approach to wildfires, stakeholders said. Both wildfires and utility-owned power lines run throughout California’s federally-, state- and privately-held forest lands. Regulated utilit...

Palm Beach County students train to be firefighters, first responders WPTV goes inside Fire Science Academy at Palm Beach Lakes Community High School Learning to fight fires before leaving high school. and last updated 2021-05-06 09:51:19-04 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Learning to fight fires before leaving high school. Palm Beach Lakes Community High School in West Palm Beach is home to one of two Fire Science Academies in the School District of Palm Beach County, giving students hands-on tra...

Palm Beach County students train to be firefighters May 6, 2021 at 6:01 AM EDT - Updated May 6 at 10:06 AM Learning to fight fires before leaving high school. Palm Beach Lakes Community High School in West Palm Beach is home to one of two Fire Science Academies in the School District of Palm Beach County, giving students hands-on training to become a first responder. "Just something about raising it up, it’s fun," Warren said. The Palm Beach Lakes Community High School senior will become ...

WATERTOWN — Peyton L.S. Morse was going to celebrate four years of personal and academic growth when he received his diploma from Siena College later this month. Instead, family members, close friends and members of the Watertown and Shaker Road-Loudonville fire departments will come together Saturday on the campus, near Albany, for a special commencement ceremony for the fallen city firefighter. The young firefighter will receive his diploma posthumously after he suffered a medical emerge...

SANFORD, Maine – You might have driven through large billows of smoke if you passed the Acton Public Safety Building on Route 109 on Tuesday afternoon. You may have even glimpsed flames spreading through a large patch of dry leaves and brush. No need to worry. Everything was under control. Fire Science students from Sanford Regional Technical Center and their instructor, Capt. Harold Smith, were on the scene and knew exactly what they were doing. That drill on Tuesday is just one aspect of S...

Amherst Fire Capt. John Ingram finalist for Belchertown chief job Updated Apr 28, 2021; BELCHERTOWN — Amherst Fire Department Capt. John Ingram is the finalist for the chief’s job here. Ingram was hired as the part-time fire chief in Leverett in 2015, but has remained with the Amherst department. The Select Board has scheduled a public meeting on Thursday night to interview Ingram. A graduate of Amherst Regional High School, Ingram joined the Amherst department in 1993 and was promoted to...

Ghent University, Belgium Glass has become an indispensable construction material. However, in extreme events such as fire, the behaviour of glass elements is still relatively unknown. The susceptibility of glass to thermal shock and its changeable material properties when subjected to high temperatures make predicting the behaviour of glass elements during fire complex.Practical applications of fire-resistant glazing, however,already exist as infill panels and frameless glass walls/doors, and ...

WATERTOWN — National investigators were in Watertown for three days talking to city fire department officials and family members as part of their investigations into what caused the death of city firefighter Peyton L.S. Morse, who suffered a medical emergency while he was involved in a training exercise at the state fire academy in early March. Investigators from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, spent some of Friday, Saturday and part of Monday before le...