Its purpose is to show how conditions such as wind speed and direction can affect a fire's spread and to show how firefighters use firelines and backfires to control a wildland fire.

No injuries were reported nor was there danger for the nearby Illinois Youth Center, the fire department said.

"But I do think there is a clear lack of understanding about how the inter-agency wildland fire system is set up, how it works, and how people that don't have 'firefighter' listed as their job are ...

Disproportionately large impacts of wildland-urban interface fire emissions on global air quality and human health. Science Advances , 2025; 11 (11) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr2616 Cite This Page : ...

The difference between all fires and just wildland fires indicated the impacts of WUI fire emissions. The results showed that WUI fire emissions constituted 3.1% of all fire emissions across the ...

The council this week unanimously authorized the city manager to execute a contract to buy a fire engine for a maximum of $700,000. The council also increased the city budget by $600,000 to offset the ...