Playing with fire, it's *** new way to fight it. Fire management agencies are relying more on simulation programs to better understand fire behavior. Meteorologist Ophelia Young sits through *** ...

The City of Burnaby is installing a new automated wildfire detection network at Burnaby Mountain to help speed up a ...

On September 5, 2020, California's Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing its own weather system. The fire's extreme heat produced an explosive thunderhead that spewed lightning strikes and ...

The UAB, in collaboration with the helicopter company Helipistas, the risk management company Mitiga Solutions, and the Barcelona Supercomputing ...

If a wildfire causes an evacuation, people are forced to leave quickly and make decisions under pressure about what to bring and what to leave behind. Households with multiple cars might want to pack ...

Fire safety education and prevention efforts are getting a boost in three local communities with help from a new cutting-edge tool. The New Baltimore Fire Department recently announced the arrival of ...

In 2020, California’s Creek Fire became so intense that it generated its own thunderstorm, a phenomenon called a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. For years, scientists struggled to replicate these explosive ...

One option to reduce wildfire damage is home hardening, which describes a variety of structural modifications that homeowners can use to make their houses less susceptible to fire. These include using ...

Wildfire simulation programs are emerging as essential tools for understanding and forecasting fire behavior. The rapidly advancing technology is especially critical in wildland–urban interface ...