Six years ago, between April 13 and 19, 2008, visitors to Wildfire Today were reading these articles:
- Three firefighters were killed on the same day in Colorado. Two firefighters that were crossing a bridge in a fire engine could not see in the smoky conditions that the bridge had already burned and collapsed. The third was killed in the crash of an air tanker.
- Firefighters assigned to a station in Queensland, Australia had a 62% higher rate of brain cancer than the rest of the state.
- Three firefighters that were burned in a wildland fire in North Dakota were passing along the lessons that they learned.
