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UK wildfire season 2026 underscores importance of new framework
By Meg Dolman US-UK collaboration produces UK Community Wildfire Resilience Framework The UK’s 2026 wildfire season brought unprecedented attention to the growing challenge of wildfire risk and resilience. Record-breaking summer temperatures and extended periods of hot, dry…
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Global wildfires, interoperability and integrated fire management
By Trevor Howard With increasing frequency and severity, we are seeing large-scale wildfires and cascading consequences across the globe. In the 2026 summer fire season in Europe, major conflagrations occurred in Mediterranean and southern regions with lives and properties lost…
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Wildfire Canada 2026 photo contest winners
Fire and water, ice and snow. The Wildland Canada Conference 2026 photo contest produced a spectacular range of still life snapshots of wildfire on the land. The 600 delegates in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for the conference last week voted for a first and second place in three…
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Who guards the guardians? Autonomy without accountability is a risk wildland fire cannot afford
By Michael Hill For most of my career in the US federal government, I worked within a wildland fire organization that valued centralized leadership, standardized policy, and institutional accountability. Particularly within the US Forest Service’s aviation program, our operating…
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Nearly $20M awarded to rural Texas fire departments to prepare for wildfire
When a wildfire ignites in Texas, the first people on the scene are most likely from one of the state’s hundreds of volunteer fire departments, most of which have less than adequate resources to contain the flames. Officials with the Texas A&M Forest Service say they are aware…
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UK unveils future wildfire plan: military aircraft, specialist fire teams and landscape transformation
Two historic wildfire seasons and a sense of falling “decades” behind in wildfire preparedness have forced the United Kingdom into a game of catch-up. Officials unveiled what they hope to be their first steps forward at England’s first-ever wildfire summit on Friday. Prime…
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Canadian military wildfire that killed 4 started in ‘automatic grenade launcher’ range, officials confirm
Canadian military police are continuing to investigate a wildfire that killed four and injured 39 on the Canadian Forces Base in Wainwright, while a Board of Inquiry will later conduct a separate independent look into the incident. Canadian Forces Provost Marshal Brig. Gen.…
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Indonesia’s wildfires impact air quality for much of region
Wildfires burning in Indonesia’s peatlands, forests, and agricultural land since July caused the country to produce the world’s highest levels of emissions for September. Now a month later, the fires are still burning, and they continue to reduce the air quality for neighboring…
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‘Rapid’ wildfire kills 4 Canadian military members, injures 39 others
Four military members were killed and 39 others were injured at the Canadian Forces Base in Wainwright after a “rapidly spreading” wildfire on Saturday, government officials confirmed on Sunday. Maj. Gen. Wade Rutland, who oversees the headquarters of the unit that was training…
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The enemy below – why there are peatland fires in new places
By Anton Beneslavskiy I fought my first peat fire in 2020 while working as a volunteer firefighter. We poured a lot of water onto it. Despite repeatedly spraying the blackened area, the peat continued to smoulder. That was my first encounter with the trickiest wildfire. This…
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LA faces ‘critical’ fire danger, electricity cutoffs ahead of forecast Santa Ana winds
The first fierce dry winds of California’s Santa Ana season are forecast to make landfall on Thursday and Friday, prompting officials to warn residents about the high potential for wildfire. The National Weather Service issued multiple red flag warnings for communities…