Wildfire one-liners, April 17, 2012

The Honey Prairie fire in Georgia was declared out after one year. It started April 28, 2011.

Check out the photo gallery of multiple master streams and a tower-ladder being used on a brush fire in North Carolina.

A cannon fired during a celebration started a brush fire in Maine. It turns out there’s no law against firing a cannon in Maine.

A Royal Air Force Tactical Air Transportable Fire Unit helped extinguish a fire in the UK which was started by a military flare.

The Governor of Colorado asked the USFS to conduct a review of the Lower North Fork Fire, looking at suppression, evacuation, communication, and weather conditions. Wildfire Today analyzed the review of the escaped prescribed fire yesterday.

 

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About Bill Gabbert

Wildland fire has been a major part of Bill Gabbert’s life for several decades. After growing up in the south, he migrated to southern California where he lived for 20 years, working as a wildland firefighter. Later he took his affinity for firefighting to Indiana and eventually the Black Hills of South Dakota where he was the Fire Management Officer for a group of seven national parks. Today he is the creator and owner of WildfireToday.com and Sagacity Wildfire Services and serves as an expert witness in wildland fire. If you are interested in wildland fire, welcome… grab a cup of coffee and put your feet up. Google+