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A banner indicating a red flag warning, flown at a CAL Fire station in 2022. A red flag warning is a forecast warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States to inform the public, firefighters, and land management agencies that conditions are ideal for wildfire combustion, and rapid spread. [1]
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5] The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
Mar. 6—CHEYENNE — Laramie County's Board of County Commissioners voted Tuesday to implement fire restrictions in the county in response to recent fires and dry conditions. "I would encourage ...
The fire was expected to remain "within its current footprint," Cal Fire said. ∎ Firefighters made significant progress on the Hurst and Auto fires. The Hurst Fire was 98% contained, according ...
Here's a look at locations in the United States that are in a fire-risk area, based on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index: First Street Foundation, a climate nonprofit ...
It is preferable for a fire lane to have access at both ends to a road. If that is not possible and a fire lane must be made into a dead end, a fire lane turnaround is put in. [1] It must be large enough for a fire truck to turn around to head out the same way it came in. They can be made as a large circle, or in the shape of a Y, T or a ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tour the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn on Jan. 8, 2025, in Los Angeles.
In 1998, a new procedures guide used the term "wildland fire use" to describe what had previously been prescribed natural fires. By the end of the decade, a 1995 policy had reinvigorated “wildland fire use” programs and given managers the support they needed to enable the programs to continue to grow and mature. [12] [29] [30]