Dear readers of Wildfire Today and Fire Aviation – we are excited to announce a new platform for communicating on wildland fire issues and activities around the world.
Wildfire Today/ Fire Aviation is dedicated to news about wildland fire and aerial firefighting around the world.
These sites began in 2008 as a blog for Bill Gabbert, a long-serving and dedicated United States fire manager, who handed them to the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) before his death in 2023 to continue them with a new future.
The IAWF has rebuilt and refreshed Wildfire Today and Fire Aviation into a single site to better suit our current and growing readership around the world.
This includes insights into major wildland fires, firefighter health and safety, community safety, prescribed fire, new science and technology advancements, Indigenous and cultural burning and land management, and the funding, resourcing and maintaining of wildland fire operations across the globe. And more.
The original blog sites served us well over many years but, like all forms of modern communication, we need to ensure they are stable and secure, and more flexible for a range of content types, including articles, videos, photos, social media and advertising.
Advertisements display better on the new site and are better integrated into the flow of editorial copy.
Importantly, all the original content is still here – articles, photos and comments. Two decades of content is a valuable resource to build upon for all of us with an interest in wildfire.
For Wildfire Today we will continue to draw from the breadth of knowledge and resources of the global wildfire community, including the IAWF membership and the expertise gained from publishing Wildfire magazine and the International Journal of Wildland Fire. The site is maintained by a team of experienced media professionals, including a former IAWF Director David Bruce, journalist Hunter Bassler, and editor of Wildifre magazine Laura King.
Your support is appreciated. Your contributions are needed. Please reach out to us via the Contact Us page for news tips, contributed articles and photos, comments on individual articles or for advertising options.
4 Comments
The Wildfire Today site looks fabulous, and its a great improvment!
Judging from the lack of comments, wildfire today is not covering subjects the wildfire community is interested in.
What do you want to read about Bean? You don’t say. And what wildfire articles don’t you want to read? The legendary Bill Gabbert is no longer with us so the site was never going to be the same again. There was only one Bill. He was a pioneer. But the world has changed. There are dozens of blogs and social media groups on current wildfires and issues now. We are building something different. And we are looking at the world of wildfire. So, what do you want to read about Bean and what wildfire issues spark no interest??
I’m only one person in your readership. I used to live in the highest wildfire hazard area in Colorado and work with our fire protection district. I would recommend Wildfire Today look at the comments that each article generates. The number of comments an article generates might inform you on the readership’s subjects of interest.
I see that your AFUE article on air tanker effectiveness generated some interest.
From the Incident Management Situation Report 2 Sep 2025. There are 46 large fires/incidents being managed in the US today. There’s initial attack activity on 69 fires. There are 14 CIMT’s committed. Shurely there’s a story in there somewhere on management, tactics, asset availability/ shortages/ and utilization. Two MAFF tankers have been mobilized so there are tanker shortages. Ft Hood has mobilized HH-60 helos to assist California. How is the US firefighting effort going? Where are the shortfalls? What are the successes?
What is happening that will make the wildland firefighter’s job easier for ground and aviation operations? What actions are being taken as a result of the Lahaina Maui fire to ensure it doesn’t happen again? Same question for Palisades,CA. Any progress being made on WUI and urban community fire resistence in the US/ in Canada? Is the insurance industry the only agent that can force change in the WUI and urban areas?
Whats new in firefighting equipment and tactics? How well are state and large community fuels management efforts going? What works and what doesn’t?
my 2 cents.
Bean
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