Forest Service air tanker base plays key role during Montana fire season

As wildfire season intensifies across the West, Montana's Helena U.S. Forest Service Air Tanker Base, which accommodates everything from single-engine air-tankers (SEATS) and helicopters with buckets to very large air-tankers, better known as VLATs, like the DC-10, is playing a critical role in getting firefighting aircraft turned around quickly.

Forest Service air tanker base plays key role during Montana fire season

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U.S. wildfire season exceeds 10-year average

As nearly 100 major wildfires continue to burn across the U.S., blazes in Washington and Oregon have forced evacuations, caused power outages, and burned hundreds of thousands of acres in the Pacific Northwest alone.

U.S. wildfire season exceeds 10-year average

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Municipal fire departments take on growing role in wildfire response

As wildfires continue to burn across the U.S. and Canada, the International Association of Fire Fighters discussed how their training is preparing municipal fire departments to assist wildland crews and equipment who are stretched thin.

Municipal fire departments take on growing role in wildfire response

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France, Spain and Greece battle wildfires as Europe swelters

Firefighters in France, Spain and Greece are battling major wildfires, with Spain bringing the blaze on the border between Madrid and ‌Castilla y Leon under control, but facing new threats as intense heat, dry vegetation and powerful winds kept much of southern Europe on high alert.

France, Spain and Greece battle wildfires as Europe swelters

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Wildfires are more extreme in Europe and North America, but global burning is oddly decreasing

Despite headlines about wildfires raging in various parts of the world, particularly in Europe and North America, key worldwide burning statistics are at a record low, largely because Africa and Asia are controlling fires more.

Wildfires are more extreme in Europe and North America, but global burning is oddly decreasing

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‘We’re losing our ability to manage forest fires’ as West becomes hotter and drier, researcher says

A professor of geography at Clark University in Massachusetts whose research focuses on climate and mountain ecosystems warned that methods which have traditionally been used to deal with wildfires may no longer be effective in the age of megafires, something debated by fellow wildfire experts in this article.

‘We’re losing our ability to manage forest fires’ as West becomes hotter and drier, researcher says

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More than 320,000 people have been forced to flee their homes across France and Spain as a series of wildfires continues to wreak havoc across parts of southern Europe, with blazes in France burning around 42,000 hectares, and those in Spain burning more than 77,000 hectares across the Madrid area and the provinces of Ávila and Toledo.

Hundreds of thousands evacuated in France and Spain as wildfires rage on

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