For many decades, the U.S. Forest Service ran on a policy of full suppression when it came to wildfires. In 1911, the Forest Service stopped using ground fires to thin fuels, and in 1935, a new policy ...

As California's population boomed—from 10 million in 1950 to over 40 million today—the number of people living in fire-prone ...

The use and control of fire are behavioral characteristics that distinguish humans from other animals. Now anthropologists report that savanna chimpanzees in Senegal have a near human understanding of ...

A late season fire in Bwabwata National park. Conor Eastment This type of burning also protects and increases biodiversity. And it enables rural people to hunt animals, gather plant foods and ...

Fire alarm cabling has become incrementally more complex over the years, in part driven by the trend toward mass notification, which is a factor of the fire alarm system. Mass notification — a one- or ...