The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s push to change a decade-old air pollution rule was recently advanced in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Suppression or control of wildfires with airtankers is a core strategy for most Canadian provincial and territorial wildfire management agencies. Airtankers include fixed wing and helicopter aircraft ...

The U.S. government has filed two lawsuits against a utility company in California, blaming it for starting two deadly ...

Swan Lake Fire in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, June 12, 2019, 5 miles east of the community of Sterling, Alaska. InciWeb photo. From the National Association of State Foresters The National ...

The settlement addresses costs after three fires in southern California started by electrical equipment burned 378,000 acres in 2017 and 2018 destroying over 2,600 structures ...

Opening arguments were heard yesterday in a lawsuit against PacifiCorp claiming that its negligence started several devastating 2020 wildfires that burned across western Oregon. KEZI-TV reported that ...

The supply of chemicals for aerial fire suppression across the US has been locked in with the announcement by US Secretary of ...

The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index launched by the Canadian Forest Service in the 1960s is now adapted for use in numerous regions, including parts of Australia, Europe and Asia. The United ...

The nation’s worst Labor Day wildfire tragedy occurred in Oregon in 2020, the deadliest wildfire event in state history.

There is little quantitative knowledge of, or data describing, how aircraft are used on Australian fires or how effective they are. Most of the existing operational understanding of suppression ...