Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Fire safe councils are grassroots community-based organizations in California that share the objective of making communities less vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire.Fire safe councils accomplish this objective through education programs and projects such as shaded fuel breaks or firebreaks to protect area residents against an oncoming wildfire and to provide firefighters with a place to fight ...
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) [3] [4] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California.It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests.
Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, also known as Front Sight and as Front Sight Resorts, was founded in 1996 by Dr Ignatius Piazza.. Piazza, a California native and former chiropractor, and himself one of the few graduates of the Four Weapons Combat Master program developed by notable firearms instructor and writer Chuck Taylor, spent 25 years developing hundreds of acres of desert into ...
A massive fire burning across both California and Nevada is generating extreme fire behavior, spawning “fire whirls” and creating dangerous conditions for firefighters, authorities said.
The Mojave National Preserve said that the fire was… The York Fire that started in California’s Mojave National Preserve on Friday is more than 80,000 acres wide and crossed into Nevada on Sunday.
The fire started about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday near the junction of Road 222 and Road 200. It is one of about a dozen fires across California that have started since Sept. 1
The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District is a fire protection district that covers Washoe County, Nevada covers the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Western Nevada. The district spans an area of nearly 6,600 square miles in the northwest section of the state bordering California and Oregon. [ 1 ]
The 2020 Dome fire, which burned more than 40,000 acres across the southwestern California desert — including in the national preserve, but in a different area from the York fire — destroyed ...