UL Research Institutes and its Fire Safety Research Institute today announced a new firefighter training course to address the threats found in the wildland urban interface, also known as WUI, or the ...
Andrew Bozzo explains why the box approach to incident command at wildland urban interface fires ensures that saving lives and protecting property are the top priorities. The drawing and the command ...
Firefighters in Greenville will conduct training exercises next week in a residential neighborhood to prepare for fires that ...
Saratoga City Council approved a new map that extends the boundary of the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to encapsulate Cal Fire’s changes to the city’s Fire Hazard Severity Zone map. Cal Fire ...
Professor Janet Yang has been named co-PI on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, “FIRE-WUI: RECAP: A Robust, Efficient, and Community-Guided Framework for Smoke-Aware Prescribed Fire Planning ...
A research team led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) has published a foundational inventory of emissions produced by structures destroyed by ...
Moraga’s Town Council adopted a resolution ratifying Moraga-Orinda Fire District ordinances pertaining to Fire Code and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) during its Feb. 11 meeting. The Orinda City ...
Firefighters in a vehicle rush toward a thick cloud of smoke generated by a wildfire. Firefighters battle the 2017 Knysna wildfires in South Africa. Credit: Associated Press A lot remains unknown ...