Its purpose is to show how conditions such as wind speed and direction can affect a fire's spread and to show how firefighters use firelines and backfires to control a wildland fire.

With the end of this fire season approaching, Ontario continues to look to future seasons and other ways to improve and modernize our equipment, personnel, and air fleet. To date this year, there have ...

Saffre, Fabrice Hildmann, Hanno Karvonen, Hannu and Lind, Timo 2022. Monitoring and Cordoning Wildfires with an Autonomous Swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Drones ...

The multi-award blanket purchase agreement from the GSA aims to provide services and IT products to support GSA IT transformation, modernization, creative and maintenance efforts, according to the ...

When I was 18, I took a job fighting wildland fire to help pay for college. By the time I graduated undergrad, I had done four or five years of firefighting and I had really enjoyed it.

Wildland firefighting crews have been, and are still very busy. But municipal firefighters, like those with the Boise Fire Department are busy fighting wildfires too. You may remember we talked ...

A fire can give off incredible amounts of heat. A room fire can range from 100 degrees at floor level to 1,200 or more degrees at the ceiling. Skin can burn with permanent injuries at 160 degrees. The ...

Dry grasslands, low humidity and strong winds have made the area and many parts of South Dakota in extreme fire danger. As of 6:15 on Thursday night, the fire has been contained, according to a ...

The program was dinged in a 2023 watchdog report that found that GSA had been misleading other agencies by claiming that Login.gov met a government standard known as identity assurance level two ...

As reasoning for the termination, the GSA cited the JV’s failure to procure financing to build the project, a GSA spokesperson told Commercial Observer in a statement. “Despite multiple attempts by ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Crews in the Woonsocket area battled a large wildland fire on Thursday. An employee at a gas station in Woonsocket says Highway 34 is closed between the town and the ...