Meeting of the Unicorns

Late March 2022 was a momentous time for many in the wildland community. The 2022 IAFC Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) conference was the first time that many had been able to get together in person to share ideas, see old friends and make new connectio…

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The Good That Came from COVID

As the fire service celebrates EMS Week May 15-21, 2022, this year’s theme, “Rising to the Challenge” could not be more appropriate. During the past year (and the year before), we provided COVID testing to hundreds of thousands of members of our commun…

FEMA Increases Federal Cost Share for 2020 and 2021 Disasters

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that it will be allowing a minimum 90{5733dc4cfc0839ade73c8aa82086f5af6447ea4397c316dc5ed4a27a2232ec93} cost share for all federal emergency or major disaster declarations that were declared or had an incident period beginning between January 1, 2020, and…

A CRR tool for the WUI

Why focus on road corridors? In early December, Teton Area Wildfire Protection Coalition (TAWPC) had the good fortune of having the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) present to us on their Camp Fire Progression Study. The Camp Fire …