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Wildland fire suppression

Hotshot Firefighter Deaths Result of “The Perfect Storm”

Days after 19 firefighters were killed in a massive wildfire in Arizona, details are now emerging about how the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew were overtaken by the flames and the conditions that rapidly changed that led to their deaths. Cindy Carcamo, a national correspondent and Arizona Bureau Chief  for The Los Angeles Times, and her […]

Coping with Tragedy in Yarnell, Arizona

Arizona Wildfire Deaths in Global Spotlight, Highlight Growing Worldwide Danger

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The Mann Gulch Tragedy: 50 Years Later

Fire Retardants Stoke Controversy

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View From the Top  ? Preserving the Nation’s Fire Towers

Back in the 1900s, the way to spot a forest fire was from a fire tower. The U.S. Forest Service erected thousands of towers throughout the country as part of a national fire lookout system. Each tower had room enough for a man or woman to stay and keep an

Lewis & Clark Trail

The Blackfeet Nation produces some of the best wildland firefighters in the world. Producer Barrett Golding traveled the Lewis & Clark Trail for its 200th anniversary, and he ran into one crew of Blackfeet smokejumpers in Idaho’s Clearwater Forest as they prepared for work.

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Watching for Fire

Once there were five thousand of them. But due to technology, the number of fire lookouts has dwindled to just a few hundred. Jeff Rice reports on what drives the people who belong to this vanishing breed to keep vigil over the forests of the West.

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Fire Lookouts

Once there were five-thousand of them. But due to technology, the number of fire lookouts has dwindled to just a few hundred. Jeff Rice reports on what drives the people who belong to this vanishing breed to keep vigil over the forests of the West.

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