Tuesday, December 2, 2008
NTSB launches investigation of firefighting aircraft crashes in California, Colorado
The National Transportation Safety Board recently released the following updated information on its investigations of two USDA Forestry Service firefighting...
Technology Briefs
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Drug may boost heart attack survival rate Every year more than 250,000 Americans and 25,000 Canadians suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with a fewer...
AMS issues call for papers
The American Meteorological Society's Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology will be held Nov. 17-21, 2003, in Orlando, Fla. The symposium will...
When engines entrap
By Dick Mangan Blackbull Wildfire Services, Missoula, Mont.
Over the past few decades, agencies and departments involved in the suppression of wildland fires around the world have grown more and more dependent...
Exchange Rate
Col. Julian Picard Centre d'Essais et de Recherche de l'Entente Gardanne, France
The speed of attack on forest fires is the key to success in fire suppression. Fire alarm routing has to be as rapid as possible, and the site needs to...
Shoe company donates sales percentage to fund
To show its support of the men and women who fight wildland fires, West Coast Shoe Co., of Scappoose, Ore., will for the second consecutive year donate...
Where there's smoke, there's wire
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In other research from Down Under, Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, and Powercor Australia have developed a technology said to make it possible...
Thermal imaging camera
FIRE CHIEF STAFF
Designed to be more sensitive to thermal energy emitted by people and objects, the Protectir[TM] 4000B infrared heat vision camera allows firefighters...
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