How agencies and communities facing wildfires can now collaborate to reduce risk
Latest news on wildfires, named NCAR fire The National Center for Atmospheric Research sparked it near Boulder, Colorado, on March 26, where it eventually burned up safely. It may even have acted as a small unplanned “prescribed burn,” reducing flammability ahead of the upcoming hotter fire season.
But the fires are a reminder that communities built in fire-prone ecosystems in human-heated climates must remain vigilant and proactive. “If an ignition occurs [in] In the exact same place that happened in Boulder’s infamous downhill storm, it could have been a catastrophic event,” Twitter Daniel SwainWestern Wildfire Specialist at UCLA and the NCAR Center for Climate and Extreme Weather.
Damage from the 2021 Marshall Fire. Photo: Murphy 380/ Wikimedia Commons
Just three months ago, 1,000 homes and businesses were destroyed in Boulder County, most of them in urban and suburban locations deemed safe. Drought and wind-driven Marshall fires.
To explore ways to proactively reduce risk in these regions, I took my first work trip in nearly two and a half years last week.I was invited to do my Sustain What webcast at HQ Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington D.C.
i sit there Deanne Criswelladministrators at FEMA — with decades of experience in fire and emergency management, starting with the Colorado Air National Guard — and Lori Moore Merrelladministrator United States Fire Department, who has equally deep roots in fire protection in Memphis, Tennessee, combined his Ph.D.s in public health and data science in pursuit of more effective fire prevention and response. Here is the video:
Read the rest of the post, including the transcript, on the Sustain What blog.
