Mark Masters worked eight years as a federal employee, spending much of that time in the northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest rappelling 250 feet down a rope from a hovering helicopter into difficult-to-access forest fires. For the final two years of his public sector career, he served in an administrative position for the National Interagency Fire Center as a U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau of Indian Affairs employee. Dissatisfied with his job, Masters felt he could accomplish so much more in the field.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As wildfires continue to rage in Arizona and Florida, every state in the country now has the potential for a wildfire. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, nearly every state in the U.S. has already experienced a wildfire this year. Wildfires during the first five months of this year have burned 3.2 million acres, due to soon surpass the 3.4 million acres of land and property that burned during all of last year. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/statefarm/49908/
CANTON, Mass., June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- While we eagerly await the arrival of summer and dry, hot weather, these conditions heighten the risk for erratic wildland fires, more commonly known as wildfires, in certain areas across the U.S. Called "wild" for a reason, wildfires are difficult to predict, control and contain, often causing extensive destruction. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, 78,792 wildland fires destroyed almost 6 million acres of land in 2009, including commercial businesses and other property. As the potential number of wildfires increases every year, OneBeacon urges businesses to take the following steps to prepare and protect their operations. Because roofs are particularly vulnerable to wildfire, choose a Class "A" fire-rated roof covering ...
I'm with the Bureau of Land Management at the National Interagency Fire Center. A lot of people in Boise don't even know it's here, but it is the national, Washington-level fire offices for the BLM, National Park Service, Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and there's even a [representative] out there from the National Association of State Foresters. We're sort of linked into the states as well. It's pretty much all the federal and state land management agencies. In some ways, we're very different - each has its own culture and employees - but we work really well together on the fire mission. Well, it's sort of a convergence of all of those things. And mat's probably one of die biggest challenges we have is that the population's just exploding and a lot of that population is moving into ...
What does packing a knapsack have to do with planning for wildfires? Both tasks involve selecting the best mix of tools and resources that fit within certain constraints - whether it's the size of the knapsack or the size of federal appropriations. So in developing a new software program that will aid in planning and budgeting for firefighting, experts at the National Interagency Fire Center drew on solutions to a classic set of puzzles called "knapsack problems." In planning for wildfires, managers have to determine which are the most effective resources-including vehicles, aircraft, ground crew, support staff and managers-while staying within their budgets and making sure they can protect a given area. Fire Program Analysis, an example of "optimization software," takes input such as t...
West, Southeast face heightened fire risk BOISE, IDAHO - The West and Southeast face an increased wildfire risk this year because of ongoing drought and an expected hotter than average summer, al Interagency Fire Center reported Tuesday.
... the way up to Alaska," said Rick Ochoa, national fire weather program manager at the center. The Na...
RENO, Nev. -- From the brittle hillsides of southern California to the drying fields of Idaho, from Montana to New Mexico, a relentless drought is worsening across most of the West, where a once-promising snowpack is shrinking early, water supplies are dwindling and the threat of wildfires is already on the rise. Most of the West is headed into six years of drought and some areas are looking at seven years of drought," said Rick Ochoa, weather program manager at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise.
WASHINGTON -- The nation set a record for wildfires this year and climate experts say 2006 will probably end as the third-warmest year on record for the contiguous United States. Drought and hot weather contributed to the record wildfire season, with more than 9.5 million acres burned through early December, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
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