Posts Categorized: Forestry
Islamic Terrorists Eyeing Forest Fires
AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE AL QUEDA PUBLICATION is advising its demented followers in the U. S. to start forest fires as a means to inflict personal and financial pain, and fear on Americans.
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Smoke Jumpers !
Advanced Forestry Tactics in 1949
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LODD x 6 – Chile
Wildfire Runover
A CREW OF TEN WILDFIRE FF's WERE overun at a fire Thursday that is believed to be purposely set. Of the ten, six perished as they all huddled together after being surrounded. The London Telegraph explains:
Th…
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Long-Haul Mutual Aid
Last Tuesday, 25 October, two arsonists started a wildfire that is still burning as this posting is being written.
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Air Tanker Crash in France
Pilot Escapes Serious Injury
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Croatian Island Fire Update
THE STUBBORN WILDFIRE THAT THREATENED the entire island of Brac in Croatia has been extinguished.
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Stubborn Wildfire on Croatian Island
Over 25% of Island Burned So Far
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“Let’s Set The Camera Up Right Here, Close to the Fire”
Bring the action to the folks watching at home...
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Grass Fires Threaten French Communities
A GRASS FIRE BROKE OUT LATE Wednesday afternoon in the Soyaux region of SW France
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Wildfire On Mediterranean Resort Island Sends Tourists Fleeing
A MAJOR WILDFIRE IS STILL BURNING out of control on the Spanish resort island of Ibiza.
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The Daily News Ticker
Some Stories Fresh Off the News Ticker
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Wildfires Consume Most of Canadian Town
Currently more than 40% of the town's structures have been destroyed, including the high school, the major shopping mall, and the town hall.
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Switzerland Joins the Wildfire Roster
A FOREST FIRE BROKE OUT TUESDAY east of Viege, Switzerland. The fire was still burning Wednesday night, but it has been contained although it may be several more days yet before it is completely extinguished.
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Rare Wildfire Hits Belgium
WILDFIRES ARE RARE IN BELGIUM and large wildfires are almost unheard of.
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6-LODD’s In Spain
A FIRE DEPARTMENT helicopter of the Government of Aragon, Spain, crashed while traveling to a forest fire in Teruel.
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Wildfire Claims Over 15 Homes, Still Uncontained
A WILDFIRE BURNING JUST SOUTH OF SILVER CITY, New Mexico, is still burning out of control this morning after a night of destruction fanned by 50-mph-winds.
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Encroaching Wildfire Forces Prison Evacuation
ISRAELI FIREFIGHTERS ARE BATTLING a raging wildfire today (Thursday) that was first discovered around 11 am this morning. The wind-whipped blaze in the Carmel Forest has blown up to several square miles already and is directly threatening a town and a high-security prison.
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Forestry Firefighter Transport Crashes, 2 Dead and 12 Injured.
A LOS ANGELES COUNTY FORESTRY FIREFIGHTER TRANSPORT VAN crashed head-on with a passenger vehicle....
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Sheriff Blames Forest Service for Wildfire
The named Twitchell Canyon Fire was started by natural causes, but evidence shows that the U. S. Forest Service, who has jurisdiction over this area, has deliberately allowed the fire to continue burning in order to clear out underbrush.
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Western Updates
THE FOURMILE CANYON WILDFIRE NEAR BOULDER, Colorado, is almost 80% contained and the fire officials are confident that it will not spread any further.
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Stray Bullets Aren't So Bad, Though
IN FAYETTE COUNTY, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE have charged a man with accidentally firing a 2-lb. cannonball through the wall of a neighbor's home.
William Edward Maser, 54, fired the cannon in his yard Wednesday evening. It is a replica of a ty…
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Around the Fire Web
* New York City's mayor has been taking flak for shutting down engine houses during their budget "crisis." But that didn't stop some political hack in city hall from ordering a Brooklyn engine company to shut down for half an hour to pull a publicity…
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Morning Lineup – September 5
Do you recall our posting about the Chicago Batt. Chief who slept through a fire call? (It's HERE if you missed it.) He received a 15-day suspension for it and what probably nailed him on it was that it was a working 2-alarm dwelling fire with rescue…
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Siberian Dam Disaster Update
THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TOTALS HAVE BEEN COMPILED in the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant disaster in Siberia. A massive explosive force destroyed a large section of the generating rooms in Russia's largest hydroelectric power plant on August…
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L. A. Fire Classed as Arson, Homicide
THE MASSIVE WILDFIRE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, California, that directly led to the deaths of two firefighters was deliberately set, the U. S. Forest Service announced on Thursday night. As a consequence, a homicide investigation has been opened and the f…
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