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More on Wildfire Risk Management
2016-01-12 17:32:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Lets re-cap. In your efforts to manage the risk of power line initiated wildfires you either have or are working on mapping wildfire risk across your service territory read more
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Wildfire burns 1,200 acres outside Los Angeles, closes highway
2015-12-27 04:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters on Saturday gained the upper hand on a wildfire northwest of Los Angeles that burned about 1,240 acres of land, forced the closure of parts of a major highway and led to evacuations, fire officials said. Hundreds of firefighters battled the blaze in the Solimar Beach area of Ventura County and were able to draw containment lines around 60 percent of the conflagration by Saturday evening, county fire officials said. The flames triggered the closure of parts of U.S. Highway 101,...
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California wildfire burns over 1,000 acres, forces evacuations
2015-12-26 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A wildfire in Southern California burned about 1,200 acres of land, forced the closure of parts of a major highway and led to evacuations on Saturday, fire officials said. More than 600 firefighters were at the scene or en route to battle the blaze in the Solimar Beach area of Ventura County, and parts of the 101 highway had been closed, county fire department spokeswoman Heather Sumagaysay said. Reopening the highway, a major roadway in the region, is a top priority, she said. Fire officials...
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Witnessing worst wildfire season in recorded history
2015-12-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The nation is closing in on its worst wildfire season in recorded history, with nearly 9.8 million acres already burned -- the equivalent of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and part of New Hampshire going up in flames. Two large fires and more than 160 smaller ones remain active, and more fires are expected to be reported before the month ends. Together, theyre likely to push the 2015 total past the record 9.87 million acres burned in 2006. The extent of scorched earth reflects a...
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Climate change and the catastrophic wildfire
2015-11-23 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Over the past several months news of widespread wildfires has coursed through the media from every corner of the world. In the United States, the wildfire season is now two months longer than it was 100 years ago. In 2015 alone, over 9.3 million acres of land have burned in the U.S. (the 2nd largest amount on record) and with current elevated fire risk in California and Texas (as of 11/12/15) that number seems likely to rise by the end of the year. The manifold economic costs of fires to land and...
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