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To better provide public and firefighter safety due to extreme fire conditions throughout northern California, and strained firefighting resources throughout the country, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region is announcing a temporary closure of nine National Forests. This closure will be effective at August 22, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.
Two trained and qualified drone pilots have been using an unmanned quadcopter to drop firestarters and expand prescribed burns on the Quarry Fire northwest of Cherry Reservoir, which began as
AUSTIN — Governor Greg Abbott today announced that he directed the Texas A&M Forest Service, through the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), to open the Austin Airtanker Base at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to assist state and local responders in wildfire suppression efforts across Texas ahead of the holiday weekend. “Texas has activated the Austin
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The historic wildfire season currently plaguing Canada is expected to persist, perhaps becoming even worse in the coming weeks – a potentially devastating forecast made more likely due to human-caused climate change, according to new research. Drought and hot conditions contributed to an unprecedented start to the fire season in Canada and has kept the fires burning all over the country since late April says Kristina Dahl, senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. By June, the smoke emitted from the wildfires reached the highe...
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The historic wildfire season currently plaguing Canada is expected to persist, perhaps becoming even worse in the