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Colorado Wildfire Study shows actions can change outcomes.

2015-11-13 14:31:07| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

NIST's study of Colorado's devastating 2012 Waldo Canyon wildfire demonstrates that prompt and effective action can significantly change outcome of fires that occur in areas where residential communities and undeveloped wildlands meet. Study found that because Waldo firefighters tailored their response to specific WUI conditions, 75% of their attempts to extinguish ignited structures were successful and 79% of their efforts at fire containment were successful in preventing rampant fire spread.

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Wildfire: A Burning Issue for Insurers?

2015-11-10 17:55:00| Transmission & Distribution World

Lloyds, 2013 Wildfires are an ecologically important phenomenon across much of the globe and have occurred naturally over millions of years. read more

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Utility Wildfire Risk Management

2015-11-10 17:47:00| Transmission & Distribution World

The last two articles have been about power line initiated wildfires and this article will build further on that topic, specifically with a focus on risk management. read more

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Warming Is Increasing Wildfire Risks in California

2015-11-05 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Extreme wildfire seasons have been afflicting drought-parched California in recent years, and new computer modeling indicates that the state will continue to become more susceptible to ruinous fires as the world continues to warm. But the scientists behind an ambitious new study, which combined historical fire records and data with projections for a warming world, say they couldn't directly connect climate change with last year's extreme season of conflagrations up and down the Golden State. ...

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Why is Indonesia wildfire so hard to put out?

2015-11-05 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Nature Network: There's something big going on in Indonesia's rain forests. As Margaret Badore wrote over on sister site TreeHugger, a wildfire is currently raging in Indonesia that's emitting more CO2 than the entire U.S. economy. That's a very bad thing. Draining peat bogs Stemming from fires that are deliberately lit each year to clear land for palm oil plantations, the fires are often exacerbated by the fact that farmers drain underlying peat bogs of water -- creating a combustible underground fuel source...

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