News and opinion about wildland fire
Author Bill GabbertPosted on Categories Uncategorized2 Comments on Video: prescribed fire in the Midwest This video shows prescribed burning in Cook County near Chicago, Illinois between November 10 and November 30 of this year. If you love hard rock music, you will like the sound track. If not, then you’ve been warned.
Parts of it were shot with a helmet-mounted Contour Roam camera and then edited with VideoPad. The video can also be found on YouTube.
Data sharing leads to powerful tools for fighting fire.
The U.S. Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy have been conducting some prescribed fires near Orleans, California.
In California, the weather this month will determine if a new record will be set for the driest year on record.
A former trombone player continues to be in the news about his effort to improve the fire shelter.
The New York Times has an article about inmate fire crews.
After the county Sheriff has repeatedly publicly criticized how the Fire Chief handled the first two hour of the destructive Black Forest Fire in Colorado Springs, an independent investigator has been called in.
A man whose body was found during a brush fire in Arvin, California in August was murdered, before the suspect tried covering up the crime with a fire.
Protecting archaeological sites from wildfire and extreme weather using a wireless sensor network.
Vail Colorado maps and rates wildfire hazard for all structures.
Thanks go out to Dick, John, Bean, Ken, and Roy.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs released today what appears to be a professionally-produced 13-minute video about reducing the wildfire risk around structures and the use of prescribed fire, emphasizing its “prehistorical” use.
Taking advantage of the snow, the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge fire staff is catching up on their pile burning south of Cheney, Washington. Here we see the Engine Module Supervisor burning vegetation that was previously thinned and piled. Photo credit: Ken Meinhart, USFWS.
I was looking through some photos taken in March of the prescribed fire along the Fall River in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The flames in this picture got my attention — small chunks of flames continue to exist several feet from the main body of the flames. The photo was taken at a fairly fast shutter speed, 1/500 second.
Click on the photo to see a larger version. I manipulated the colors a bit to make the flames show up more clearly.
Below is a video shot at the project.
More photos of the prescribed fire
Before and after photos of the prescribed fire
