Clik here to view.
Summarizing the wildfire season in the Northwest
Pacific Northwest Fire Siege 2014 from Andy Lyon on Vimeo. This video that summarizes the 2014 wildfire season in Washington and Oregon is shockingly professionally filmed and produced, considering it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A call for better preparedness for wildfires in Washington
Following the Carlton Complex of fires that burned 300 homes and 256,108 acres in north-central Washington this summer, there have been calls for better preparedness for future wildfires. Below is an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Washington DNR demotes their Resource Protection Manager
Below is an excerpt from an article at King5 in Washington state: KING 5 News has learned that the [Washington] Department of Natural Resources has demoted the manager in charge of the controversial...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bills introduced in Washington legislature to increase use of local...
Representative Joel Kretz of Waconda, Washington has introduced several bills in the legislature that would affect wildland firefighting. The Washington Department of Natural Resources does not agree...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wildfire burns in Olympic rain forest
(UPDATED at 11:12 p.m. PT, June 24, 2015) The managers of the Paradise fire in Olympic National Park said today, after two recent infrared mapping flights, that the fire has been steadily moving...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Homes burn in Wenatchee, Washington wildfire
(UPDATED at 7:32 p.m. PT, July 1, 2015) 3-D map of the Sleepy Hollow Fire, looking west, 1 a.m. PT, June 30, 2015. Note the spot fire near the river that is 1.2 miles east of the main fire. (click to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spot fire from Sleepy Hollow Fire burned commercial structures 1.2 miles from...
3-D map of the Sleepy Hollow Fire in Wenatchee, Washington, looking west, 1 a.m. PT, June 30, 2015. Note the spot fire near the river that is 1.2 miles east of the main fire. (click to enlarge) The map...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Washington Lands Commissioner: state legislators “didn’t seem to care about...
The Commissioner of Public Lands in Washington State is very disappointed that the legislature approved only one-third of the increase he requested to beef up the number of fire engines and helicopter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music video about Carlton Complex Fire of 2014
The song and the photos in the video are about the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Washington — the 256,108-acre Carlton Complex of Fires. In July, 2014 it burned approximately 300 homes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Washington’s wildfire season off to an early start
3-D map of the Sleepy Hollow Fire in Wenatchee, Washington, looking west, 1 a.m. PT, June 30, 2015. Note the spot fire near the river that is 1.2 miles east of the main fire. (click to enlarge) The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How fire spreads in the Olympic rain forest
This video illustrates how the Paradise Fire is spreading through the rain forest in Olympic National Park in Washington. The fire easily climbs up the lichen and moss on a tree then drops burning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three significant new fires in Washington
(UPDATED at 5:34 p.m. PT, July 21, 2015) Today much of the eastern part of Washington is again under a Red Flag Warning until 8 p.m. for westerly winds of 15 to 25 mph and a relative humidity of 10 to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Researchers find insect-killed forests pose no additional likelihood of wildfire
Photo by Bill Gabbert As mountain pine beetles and other insects chew their way through Western forests, forest fires might not seem far behind. Lands covered by dead trees appear ready to burst into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Time-lapse of monitors setting up a fire effects plot
The Fire Effects crew from North Cascades National Park is seen in this time-lapse video filmed over a two-hour period placing fire monitoring plots just outside fire perimeter of the Paradise Fire in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kari Greer’s photos from Chelan fires
Chelan Fires; First Creek Fire, Okanogan-Wenatchee NF, WA, 2015; burn operation in Morning Sun Estates. Many firefighters have seen Kari Greer on firelines in the western United States. She is a NIFC...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sampling of photos from recent fires
Fire hose was transported back to the incident base on the Mad River Complex in northern California after being deployed on the fireline. Before it is used again it will be tested, cleaned, and rolled....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wildfire briefing, November 2, 2015
Marijuana farms destroyed by California fires According to reports, the crops from up to 100 marijuana farms were destroyed in wildfires in California this summer. Hardest hit were facilities in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DNR sued over failure to suppress fire that became the Carlton Complex
Three landowners are suing the Washington state Department of Natural Resources, accusing the agency of negligence in not initially putting out the Golden Hike Fire that later merged with three others...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Twisp River Fire: report released as injured firefighter leaves hospital
On November 18, the day a preliminary report was released for the Twisp River Fire, the firefighter who was severely burned on the incident west of Twisp, Washington left the Harborview Medical Center...
View ArticleOne of the best fire pictures of 2015
The report that the U.S. Forest Service wrote about last year’s fires in the Washington and Oregon reminded me of one of the best pictures of the fires in 2015 — the one you see above. The photo is at...
View Article