The Deschutes National Forest continues to log and conduct prescribed burns on the premise that fuel reduction (logging) makes communities safer from wildfire. This is delusional. Most of the ...
Melissa Furlong is an assistant professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and a member of the Center for Firefighter Health Collaborative Research. Researchers at the University ...
The master lawsuit in the Palisades fire has added several new defendants who are being blamed for overgrown brush, toppled wooden power poles, natural gas explosions and a lack of water, all ...
Within weeks of the Los Angeles firestorms in January, the city of Berkeley, California, moved to do what the state had failed to for years: mandating ember-resistant zones around wildfire-vulnerable ...
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 ...
As we descend into fall it is a good time to revisit one of our wildfire preparedness tactics. Prep and go is structure defense tactic used by firefighters ahead of an advancing wildfire to increase ...
At a church parking lot near Los Angeles, two hazmat-suit-clad workers vacuumed and wiped most of the contents of Elle Schneider’s house. Surrounded by stacked plastic bins of books and clothes, they ...
LOS ANGELES, July 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today victims of the deadly Palisades Fire filed an amended complaint in the lead case for the Palisades Fire Litigation, which alleges new evidence, ...