by FSEEE | Sep 18, 2020 | Fire Truth, FSEEE in the News
By James Anderson and Matthew Brown — Justin Silvera came off the fire lines in Northern California after a grueling 36 straight days battling wildfires and evacuating residents ahead of the flames. Before that, he and his crew had worked for 20 days, followed by a...
by FSEEE | Sep 14, 2020 | Fire Truth, FSEEE in the News
By Joan Meiners in The Spectrum — If you’ve spent any time in the west this summer, you’ve seen the skies fill with smoke from wildfires, prompting thousands of firefighters to be called to the front lines to fight the flames. One of the tools in their arsenal is...
by FSEEE | Jun 24, 2020 | Fire Truth, FSEEE in the News
By Tony Davis in The Arizona Daily Star — From the stark, deeply incised rock face of Pusch Ridge to the spruce-lined top of Mount Lemmon, one color seems to have dominated the two-week battle of the Bighorn Fire: Flaming, searing red — maybe a cross between the hues...
by FSEEE | Oct 2, 2019 | Fire Truth
The latest statistics from the National Interagency Fire Center show that 2019 has seen a decrease in the total amount of wildfire activity across the United States compared to the past decade. As of yesterday, there have been 40,263 wildfires across the nation,...
by FSEEE | Jan 31, 2019 | Fire Truth
The 2013 Rim Fire burned more than 250,000 acres in Yosemite National Park and the adjacent Stanislaus National Forest, making it the largest fire ever recorded in the Sierra Nevada. It also burned much of the best habitat for great gray owls, which are listed as...
