by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2017 | News, News/PR
In 1995, the U.S. Forest Service spent 16 percent of its total budget on fighting fires. Today, it’s 52 percent and growing. What’s changed? “Everything,” said Matthew Thompson, a research forester who works at the agency’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort...
by Web Editor | Apr 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
Just a few minutes after he and his crew intentionally set a small patch of bone-dry grass and brush ablaze in a Grant Creek neighborhood on Wednesday morning, Robert Dillon marveled at how quickly the fire spread. “It’s burning like it’s July,” he observed. “It’s...
by Web Editor | Mar 25, 2015 | News, News/PR
Wildfire season is quickly approaching, and Southern Arizona fire departments spent the day brushing up on their skills. Firefighters from several local agencies, including the Northwest Fire District, Casa Grande Fire Department, Golder Ranch Fire District, and...
by Web Editor | Nov 14, 2012 | News, News/PR
Nothing sums up wildland firefighters’ penchant for safety than do their fire-resistant yellow shirts. So when fire ecologist Lynn Bennett recalled an incident commander on the Mustang Complex fire saying his Hotshot crews felt so secure taking a stand along Hughes...
by Web Editor | Jul 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
President Barack Obama will make federal health insurance available to about 8,000 temporary wildland firefighters, a White House official said recently. Despite the grueling and dangerous work they do, the 8,000 firefighters aren’t covered by federal health...