@c_merriweather @dougfir LOL it's an "initlal attack" firefighting broom.
"Ideal for beating out flames in tall grass, sweeping/scraping duff, initial attack, controlling small “break-overs” and mop-up. Fire-resistant palmyra fibers riveted to steel cap. Hardwood handle, 10˝ trim, 54˝ overall."
I wonder what the technical term for these are... "floppy firefighting paddle?" #firefighting
the July-August 2025 newsletter from the California Fire Science Consortium is out
#firefighters #firefighting #wildland_fire #fireScience
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=934b7746792f1dee6f60ea043&id=684bb18b07
Wildland Fire Management... Some scout out there learning about direct or Indirect attack.... NIFC... 18 watch out situations... Wow!
@ChrisMayLA6 "Trust is earned not engineered" : whaw!
I'm in #highereducation and in #firefighting : trust is our foundation... Also: absolutely agree with how this applies to politics.
I'm going to use this a lot now. Thank you!
#California now has the largest airborne #firefighting fleet in the world! Thanks #GavinNewsom!
https://www.ktvu.com/news/cal-fire-adds-2-firehawks-expands-worlds-largest-aerial-firefighting-fleet
Someone cosplaying his own Fire Department?!?!?
ABC7: Fire truck found when FBI raids Brentwood home
https://abc7.com/post/fire-truck-found-when-fbi-raids-brentwood-home/17155406/
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas, 2025
A hotshot firefighter’s gripping firsthand account of a record-setting fire season.
In When It All Burns, wildland firefighter and anthropologist Jordan Thomas recounts a single, brutal six-month fire season with the Los Padres Hotshots—the special forces of America’s firefighters.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#US
#California
#wildfires
#firefighting
#firefighters
Some video of the Air Tractor AT-802 planes on their last scoop before they returned to base.
AP: Sheriff says 2 killed after firefighters shot near Coeur d’Alene, police are ‘taking sniper fire’ (active incident)
https://apnews.com/article/coeur-dalene-idaho-shooting-57e4143642c5a0e98d134051a7147a89
Firefighting sisters from Pinaymootang First Nation working on the front lines of Manitoba's wildfire effort
Two firefighting sisters from Pinaymootang First Nation in Manitoba’s Interlake region say they are looking forward to returning to the front lines of the provincial wildfire effort after a deploy...
#wildfire #firefighting #sisters #family #PinaymootangFirstNation #Manitoba
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/nopiming-wildfire-pinaymootang-first-nation-firefighters-1.7569053?cmp=rss
To do what we do well, we need the right equipment, good training, and time and practice to develop skills. We also need rest and opportunity to refresh.
Whether we are a firefighter, a dentist, a teacher, or a fine artist, the requirements are the same. You cannot rush excellence.
Firefighter canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/firefighter-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#TheGremlinZoo #NPS #Wildfires #Firefighting
From AP.com: Forest and park service worker cuts leave wildland firefighting crews short-staffed
Felling giant trees not exciting enough? Try felling giant trees that are on fire!
NY Times: Senators Investigate Private Equity Role in Soaring Fire-Truck Costs
(paywall, fascist supporting paper, etc. etc.)
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/114345435593568063
Word of the day: Intumescent.
"An intumescent paint is a coating that, when exposed to heat expands many times its original thickness (up to 100 times), to form a stable, carbonaceous char."
https://www.tremcocpg-asiapacific.com/blog/different-types-of-intumescent-coatings #firefighting #motdujour #wordoftheday
Reason #39 Why Kentucky is like traveling back in time 25 years.
The fire department's safety policies. People working without Breathing Equipment, without bunker gear, and without helmets.
(not everyone and everywhere, but there were people clearly in the 'hot' zone without helmets and BA's.)
#firefighting #safety
CBS News: Federal funding cuts lead FEMA to cancel classes at National Fire Academy
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that National Fire Academy courses were canceled amid a "process of evaluating agency programs and spending to ensure alignment with Administration priorities," according to a notice sent to instructors, students and fire departments. Instructors were told to cancel all future travel until further notice.
Firefighters, EMS providers and other first responders from across the country travel to the NFA's Maryland campus for the federally funded institution's free training programs."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-national-fire-academy-cources-cancellation/
From a firefighter friend:
FEMA just cancelled all its National Fire Academy in-person training, if you want to know how great the consequences of the idiotic, chaotic and ill-planned cuts are going.
#Firefighting Fire Sale
After #US #ForestService #layoffs, will #forprofit contractors protect you from #wildfires?
Like many of 3,400 Forest Service abruptly fired by #DOGE, Kloetzel’s permanent job offer last spring had come with a 1 year “probationary” period, with fewer job protections. Since he lives in Forest Service housing, he also lost his housing. Altogether, around quarter of the ranger district’s employees were fired. “It’s a bitter pill to swallow,” he says.
https://www.levernews.com/the-firefighting-fire-sale/
