University of Washington climatologist Cliff Mass told the Ag Information Network it’s a great way to enter the traditional wildfire season. A personal letter from InvestigateWest’s new executive director, addressing the challenges ahead and what InvestigateWest is doing to weather them. It’s been pretty astonishing how well it’s worked up to this point.”The state also has used more aviation resources to hit fires early, hoping to prevent massive blazes that require a large assembly of firefighters.“We're hitting fires that are small and trying to keep them small,” said Phil Daniels, deputy chief of Colorado’s Wildland Fire Management Section. It is a reliable indicator for fire danger — the higher the index, the greater the fire threat.This summer, the EDDI has consistently been in its highest drought category, E4, over parts of California, a level that can be expected only 2 percent of the time based on records going back to 1980. Aviation units also are very expensive, but some state officials believe they could be more cost-effective in the long run if they prevent large fires from spreading across the landscape.
Its also possible that we will choose certain fires to not put out, because the risk of exposure is too high,” said Tom Zimmerman, a retired federal firefighter and former president of the International Association of Wildland Fire. Land managers and longtime firefighters have joined with modelers and researchers in the effort, the first fruits of which have been incorporated into region-specific plans.It is not at all clear how damaging coronavirus can be for firefighters, but it’s been shown that small increases in air pollution drive an outsized increase in COVID-19’s fatality rateA draft version of a Forest Service brief made waves in Washington, D.C., after a group of “It is important to understand that the figures in this report are not predictions, but rather … possible scenarios,” Olivia Walker, a Forest Service spokesperson based in Washington, D.C., told InvestigateWest. Franz said Washington has upped its “air game,” fielding 12 helicopters that empty large water tanks over fires and contracting for planes equipped to dump fire retardant.Since the pandemic set in, a search has been underway to find safe-enough firefighting schemes. District Chief Paul Duarte’s team, the first to reach the Pine Gulch fire as it began spreading across western Colorado about three weeks ago, put months of planning to the test as they prepared to battle their first major wildfire under pandemic conditions.First, they were screened for COVID-19 symptoms as the blaze, which became the second-largest in state history, ripped through the rough terrain near Grand Junction. Published: 05/19/2020 06:47 PM Washington and Oregon are expected to have the worst wildfire season in the nation, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
They’ll eat together, bunk together, and mix with others as little as possible. Today crews cleared underbrush and small trees on a Nature Conservancy managed forest on Cle Elum Ridge, as part of its 20-year plan to reduce the threat of wildfires in Cle Elum, Roslyn, and Ronald. "That heat wave also brought rolling blackouts due to heightened electricity demand, and “Temperatures this high, and this widespread, are rarely ever seen in this area. …“I don’t have any faith that we can exactly predict the number of cases or infections or anything like that, but what I hope is we can highlight big differences” in the impact various precautions will have. Firefighters in New Mexico and Colorado described workers from various agencies mixing freely at the fire scene, heedless of social distancing directives. “That mixed with what we understand about this disease right now is concerning. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) “If you have less humans running around doing stuff, that may actually reduce the fire ignitions. Those camps amount to sprawling tent cities thrown up at county fairgrounds, empty fields, shuttered campgrounds and the like. In short, in cases of intense fires lasting a day or two, the models showed that screening firefighters for fever or, if possible, testing them for coronavirus is key. Another silver lining is that the pandemic has created strong lines of communication between state agencies and county leaders who respond to emergencies. The forecast of “normal” wildfire potential is somewhat deceptive, as there is typically no wildfire action in Alaska during this time, especially after early September. Geissler, the state forester, said the strategy has been successful, but noted attacking fires from the air creates additional risk. “There's some opportunities we're going to find due to this and become more efficient in the long run. “But there may be a point where we don't have the amount of people we'd like to put on those fires.”CalFire has about 12,000 employees, and only 33 have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began.The state is missing workers from inmate crews because of early releases and COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons.
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