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By 3:06 a.m. on Thursday, December 16, the Four County Fire had reached a burned area of approximately 96,000 acres (39,000 ha) and satellites had detected heat from the wildfire seven miles away near Russell, Kansas. [11] Due to the wildfires and strong winds, 24 out of the 105 counties in Kansas issued local disaster declarations.
State compacts, and in the case of the federal government, interagency and interregional agreements were bringing fire control teams together from widely separated areas of the county. It became necessary to establish a national system for estimating Fire danger and fire behavior to improve and simplify communications among all people concerned ...
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]
The 2017 BC fire season is notable for three reasons: first, for the largest total area burnt in a fire season in recorded history; second, for the largest number of total evacuees in a fire season (Estimated 65,000 evacuees); and third, for the largest single fire ever in British Columbia. [76] [77] 2017: 1,295,000 acres (524,000 ha)
The total fire suppression costs went up to $1.5 million, out of which $400,000 was for four National Guard helicopters. The remaining costs consisted of fuel, food, ice, and water. [7] [8] 272,000 acres of Barber County and 141,000 of Comanche County was burned. [4] Two-thirds of the entire area burned was in Kansas. [3]
ncc111-301200- bulletin - eas activation requested civil emergency message north carolina emergency management agency relayed by national weather service greenville-spartanburg sc 322 am edt wed may 30 2018 the following message is transmitted at the request of mcdowell county emergency management and the north carolina emergency management agency.
A fire danger index of between 12 and 25 on the index is generally considered a "high" degree of danger, while a day having a danger index of over 50 is considered a "severe" fire danger rating. Above this level in 2010 a distinction was made between forest and grassland fuels.
The fire was a topic in the prologue to Adam Grant's book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (2021). The Mann Gulch fire was the subject of Norman Maclean's book Young Men and Fire, [45] which was published after his death. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction in 1992