Members of Nevada’s fire-service elite – fire marshals, firefighters and community organizers – met with citizens of Nevada’s high- and extreme-fire-hazard communities Thursday, September 18 and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Front Range wildfire experts told Denver7 that a critical part of battling wildfires is protecting the wildland-urban interface.

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 ...

Sacramento, California – On February 26, 2025, the State of California adopted the 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code® (IWUIC®) as the basis for Title 24, Part 7, 2025 California ...

Since January 7, wildfires have been devastating the Los Angeles area. In the span of 10 days, several different fires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, have burned more than 40,000 acres and ...

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 ...

While the scars left by the Lolo Creek Complex fire have gone from black to white in recent weeks, the memories left by the summer conflagration are still fresh. On Wednesday, with the fire’s charge ...

Chaparral, Calif.’s fire-adapted ecosystem, often goes overlooked. That is, except for when the high severity firestorms blaze through human communities. Chaparral was quickly lambasted during ...

The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds. The study, published this week ...

The 1,300-acre Deer Point project getting underway northeast of Boise aims to protect wildland-urban interface areas and recreation sites by improving forest health and reducing the risk of ...

Acela Truck Company is expanding its current product lines in the wildland fire market with the introduction of its Dispatcher(TM) 4x4 Type 6 Fire Engine, purpose-built for rapid initial attack in ...

A data analysis by the CBS News Data Team shows a growing number of Bay Area homes are facing increased wildfire risk. In the 1990s, about 917,000 homes in the Bay Area were in wildland-urban ...