Fuel mitigation is crucial for combating the nation’s growing wildfire problem, but culture, politics, and geography can be significant barriers keeping communities from doing the work. That’s one of the key findings in “Local Wildand/Urban Interface: Fire Department Wildfire Preparedness and Readiness Capabilities,” the new report of an ambitious NFPA project aimed at capturing, for the first time, how municipal fire departments nationwide are adjusting to their increased role in battling wildfire.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NFPA Journal

Some volunteer firefighters in Robeson County are under fire from vandals. Someone has been breaking into the homes of Parkton volunteer firefighters and has even shot the fire station’s sign. Parkton Fire Department Captain Jason Viar said that recently, several of his firefighters have been answering a different kind of alarm-burglar alarms at their own homes.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRAL-TV CBS 5 Raleigh

The Paradise Fire, which had been burning since May, has been declared extinguished. Ty Crowe, fire operations specialist for Olympic National Park, said Wednesday that the fire in the Queets River drainage was out following a series of storms that dropped several feet of rain on the area. The wildfire, the largest in the history of the park, burned an estimated 2,795 acres of rainforest trees and deep duff, as of the last update in September.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: peninsula daily news

The Paradise Fire, which had been burning since May, has been declared extinguished. Ty Crowe, fire operations specialist for Olympic National Park, said Wednesday that the fire in the Queets River drainage was out following a series of storms that dropped several feet of rain on the area. The wildfire, the largest in the history of the park, burned an estimated 2,795 acres of rainforest trees and deep duff, as of the last update in September.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: peninsula daily news

At least 200 families are preparing to sue Department Natural Resources for what they lost to the 2014 Carlton Complex. The fire that leveled a quarter million acres and 357 buildings began as just a few spot fires. Neighbors of the Golden Hike lightning strike filed a suit in Olympia Tuesday. The fire began on state land, and the suit alleges DNR did not do enough to stop it when it was small.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2015 6:44:29 PM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2