A year ago, between May 18 and 24, 2013, readers at Wildfire Today were reading these articles:
- The “myth of catastrophic fires“, revisited.
- There was a report that 70 percent of the water handling equipment being inspected in the Northern Rockies Geographic Area were failing.
- The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office released a 27-page report about the Waldo Canyon Fire that blackened over 18,000 acres, burned 347 homes, and killed two people when it spread into Colorado Springs June 26, 2012.
- We posted a video of a fire engine driving through deep flood waters near Melbourne, Australia.
- We wrote an opinion piece about how Inciweb was having serious problems. (We posted an update on Inciweb later, on June 20, 2013, after it had gotten much worse.)
- An injured young bobcat that was rescued by the Mad River Hand Crew while working on a fire, was all better and released into the wild.
- Air Tanker 910, a DC-10 Very Large Air Tanker that carries 11,600 gallons, was photographed when it visited Rapid City.
Six years ago, between May 18 and 24, 2008, we were busy teaching a class, but readers at Wildfire Today had a few articles to read:
- The 100-acre Frye Mesa prescribed fire escaped control in the Pinaleno mountains south of Safford, Arizona on the Coronado National Forest and burned about 2,500 acres before rain stopped the spread.
- The Summit Fire 12 miles south of San Jose, California burned about 28 structures and 3,400 acres.
