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'Good fires' can help fight fires before they start For eons, fires set by Indigenous Peoples and natural fires burned across landscapes every few years, reducing the amount of burnable material ...
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or ...
It was terrible timing. In the late morning of Tuesday 6 January, a "life-threatening and destructive" windstorm was heading for the northern suburbs of Los Angeles. The local office of the US ...
The suppression of fire can lead to unforeseen changes in ecosystems that often adversely affect the plants, animals and humans that depend upon that habitat. Wildfires that deviate from a historical fire regime because of fire suppression are called "uncharacteristic fires". [citation needed]
While this is often a good heuristic, since California’s bad policies affect so many aspects of life there, the conflagration seems to have been a natural disaster, not a pure policy disaster.
Sea water, in theory, could be used to help a fire. But, its salty components can do more harm than good, which is why firefighters typically avoid using it unless absolutely necessary.
Other fires, like the 2023 Maui fires and the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Northern California, have caused hydrants to go dry in the past, and it seems L.A. will need to go back to the drawing board if ...
The early findings support taking a comprehensive approach to fire-hardening buildings, said the institute's senior director for wildfire, Steve Hawks. “You can’t just do one or two mitigation ...