News and opinion about wildland fire
Today the National Interagency Fire Center uploaded a bunch wildfire-related videos to YouTube. We have six of them below.
This first one is about managing communications on a complex incident:
The second one is on the subject of engines:
The third one describes what wildland firefighters must do if there is a medical emergency on an incident.
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More than 1,000 wildfires burned this year in Arkansas, according to KAIT8 news, and many were human-caused. But lightning’s rising on the list of causes for fires in the state. State Forester Joe Fox said that 15 percent of Arkansas fires are usually caused by lightning — and some years it’s under 3 percent. But according to Fox, lightning has caused more than half the fires in the last two months.
The Arkansas Forestry Commission yesterday activated military Blackhawks for fire suppression in the state.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on Categories Uncategorized5 Comments on Photos of lightning in the Black Hills 
We have had a boatload of lightning in the Black Hills of South Dakota in recent days. Almost every day we have been seeing numerous downstrikes which have started dozens of fires over the last week in the Black Hills and the prairies to the east.. Most of the fires have been caught at less than a couple of acres, but several have burned thousands.
I shot these photos Monday evening in Wind Cave National Park.
Monday night there was a shitload of lightning in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, which may have been the cause of a fire burning a couple of miles west of Cascade. This fire had probably burned a few dozen acres when I arrived, but it slowed down when a few sprinkles hit it. The lightning did not slow down, however.
