Wildfire news, March 7, 2009

Arizona Daily Star photos

The Arizona Daily Star, based in Tucson, has an excellent collection of about 35 photos of fire they have collected over the last couple of years. Here is one photo.

Rodeo-Chediski fire. Jason Foust of the Avra Valley Fire Department watches flames consume juniper trees near a girls’ camp in Aripine. David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star

Leave early, or prepare, stay, and defend gets another look

California Fire Chiefs in Ventura, Orange county, and within Firescope are taking another look at the leave early, or prepare, stay and defend policy.  All three organizations had been considering adopting it, but after the February 7 “Black Saturday” fires in Australia in which 210 people died, they are having second thoughts.  The LA Times has more details.

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