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 ...

New FSRI research offers data on how glazing and frame materials withstand fire spread, aiding structural hardening and safety specs.

Bill Arsenault provides several keys to fire department response to a wildfire that springs up on a solar farm, including close collaboration with the power companies 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Lassen Fire Safe Council meets at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18 at the Susan River Fire Protection District, 705-145 Johnstonville Road. Items on the agenda include: Managing Director Report ...

New construction rules may be coming to the higher-risk wildfire areas around Colorado Springs, including the grassland on the city’s eastern side. Colorado Springs Fire Marshal Kris Cooper presented ...