The 2001 wildland and wildland/urban interface(W/UI) fire season began early this year with a large number of fire starts in Florida. As I began writing this short article, fires were still burning in that state and I am listening to my scanner radio...

Article • July 1st, 2001

Mike Meadows provides photo coverage of a quickly expanding blaze that threatened lives and structures.

Article • January 31st, 2001

Robert M. Winston recaps the worst U.S. wildland firefighting season in decades.

Article • December 31st, 2000

Robert M. Winston provides a first-person account of a dangerous wildfire: "The heat and smoke were almost unbearable, but we stayed put as we watched everything that was combustible around us ignite."

Article • October 1st, 2000

Harvey Eisner describes the massive effort to control a wildland fire that threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Article • August 1st, 2000

Early wildland fire and wildland/urban interface (W/UI) fire season predictions for the year 2000 were ominous and warned of an active and possibly disastrous period in this country's fire history annals. There was talk of droughts and global warming...

Article • July 1st, 2000