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By Bequi Livingston
A federal task group developed a wildland firefighter fitness program to improve health and safety. ...
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Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Punky Moore
Participants in this year’s Followership to Leadership course honed their skills along a less-traditional path. ...
May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Josh McDaniel
A record-setting 2007 fire season put Georgia officials on the offensive to battle continuing drought conditions. ...
Mar 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Brian Sharkey, Theron Miller & Charles Palmer
The Forest Service is researching IMT stressors and adequate coping measures. ...
May 1, 2006 12:00 PM
On Sept. 3, 2005, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano declared a state of emergency in support of Hurricane Katrina and established Operation Good Neighbor....
Nov 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Josh McDaniel
Given the complex nature of wildland fire, reports on the recent Southern California fires didn¹t tell the whole story....
Jul 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Josh McDaniel
In the midst of another record-setting fire season, maybe its time for the fire service to take the interface battle to legislators and insurers. ...
Jul 1, 2007 12:00 PM
A weekend of severe weather battered southwest Kansas, beginning May 4. A 1.7-mile-wide wedge tornado hit the town of Greensburg. The EF-5 tornado passed...
May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Josh McDaniel
In recent months, there has been a big push to use online decision-support tools to track, manage and justify costs. Don’t get blind-sided by new requirements for situation analyses....
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"One of the difficulties of change is that some individuals who have dedicated so
much time and effort to making everything work must step aside a bit to allow others to step forward.
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Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Chuck Bushey
With all of the work the IAWF has done to pull together the conference “The Fires of ’88: Yellowstone and Beyond,” it was inevitable that I would spend some time reflecting on that particular fire season 20 years ago....
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM
The International Association of Wildland Fire’s board of directors has selected William Ranieri as the organization’s new executive director. Ranieri is the managing partner and CEO of Prime Management Services ...
May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Chuck Bushey
Until homeowners are sufficiently knowledgeable and organized and can tackle their own fire/fuel situation, it’s up to us in the fire community to provide guidance and help ...
The new issue of the International Journal of Wildland Fire, published by CSIRO for the International Association of Wildland Fire, has just been released. The journal sports a new look. Instead of the old-style cover, the journal will feature a different wildland fire action photo each issue....
Mar 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Chuck Bushey
As firefighters, we worked with what resources we had and we did our best to stall and divert until the weather changed in our favor. But I don't think most of us realized how climate patterns truly were changing.
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Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Chuck Bushey
FireNet is a free e-mail-based discussion and information-distribution system specifically serving the global wildland fire community. Because it is free and open to non-IAWF members means that the international participation is large, and while the emphasis is wildland fire, we have subscribers from a wide range of fire specialties....
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