As we watch the fires burn our neighbors’ homes in southern California, we have to keep in mind that the fires are not burning because of an inadequate water supply or a particular fire chief or ...
"And that’s called an urban conflagration." In Los Angeles, the fire post-mortems included many experts pointing to the dense layout of the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods — with ...
Last week, wildfires blazed across western Canada, turning the town of Jasper, located near Alberta’s Jasper National Park, into ashes. The local government estimated that the fire damaged or ...
COLUMBIA, MD - UL Research Institutes and its Fire Safety Research Institute announced a new firefighter training course to address the threats found in the wildland urban interface, also known as WUI ...
Fire awareness is not new to communities in Arizona's high country, but the losses of life and property in California was a sobering reminder that "it could happen anywhere." Some Arizona communities ...
No 'magic wand' to build back better, and also exactly as you were One motivation to prevent urban conflagration is that rebuilding amid elevated labor costs, increased climate risk, supply chain ...