The wildfire suppression toolkit just got bigger in California's Eastern Sierra with the stationing of a CH-47D Chinook helicopter at Mammoth Yosemite Airport, just outside the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes at Mammoth Yosemite Airport: https://t.co/XUxCKdRtje
An overview of the aerial firefighting industry worldwide as climate change lengthens wildfire seasons across hemispheres and increases outbreak frequency and fire size explores what new technologies are being developed to address this growing threat: https://t.co/GOlbSbToR7
AirMed&Rescue surveyed air-tanker operators to find out more about how they are trying to become proactive rather than reactive in their wildfire preparations in a year which looks to be a busy one for wildfires in the U.S and beyond: https://t.co/kG9PQ3D4ZT
The Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands will hold an oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests and Outlook for the 2026 Wildfire Year” on Wednesday, June 3rd at 10:15 AM, in Washington, DC: https://t.co/ne62BTueSA
The NIFC’s seasonal outlook map shows that large swaths of the United States facing heightened wildfire risk this summer, with dry conditions and rising temperatures setting the stage for another dangerous season across multiple regions: https://t.co/lIQQHlitmE
The Center for Western Priorities found that the USFS treated roughly 35% fewer acres of hazardous fuels in 2025 than in 2024, a sharp decline that leaves communities across the West and Southeast more exposed to the risk of catastrophic wildfires: https://t.co/krqUb4kRjl
A retrospective takes a look back to 2014, when the USAFAC urged the Colorado legislature’s Wildfire Matters Review Committee to acquire A-10s and then, through a public-private partnership, convert and operate them as wildland firefighting air-tankers: https://t.co/lnTfCtHw4h
NASA’s wildfire-tracking Aqua satellite is in trouble due to it having to maneuver to avoid a collision with incoming space debris, something which diminishing fuel may make impossible in the near future: https://t.co/7vmNwDIKay
Wildfire NOTD subscriber Frank Carroll, Partner at Wildfire Pros PFMc, disputes one of the most protected assumptions in today’s federal wildfire policy: that allowing some wildfires to burn under the banner of “managed fire” is sound restoration strategy: https://t.co/IKStly2RAW
Fox News provided video with a bird's-eye view of Ventura County's Sandy Fire from above, shot through the windshield of a firefighting helicopter flying over Southern California neighborhoods choked by smoke from the massive blaze: https://t.co/AhM0OGC2lZ
Satellite imagery captured wildfires burning across four states, including the Sharpe Fire, which had burned more than 28,000 acres in Oklahoma and Colorado, the 14,000-acre Hungate Fire in the Texas Panhandle, and several active blazes in New Mexico: https://t.co/VoUCgbYSDx
AccuWeather meteorologists warned that a storm moving through the Rockies will lead to an increased risk of wildfires starting and rapidly spreading across portions of the Southwest and Plains early this week: https://t.co/xXXk9aye2b
Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico are being pummeled by a series of wildfires which have forced evacuations, including the 14,000-acre Hunggate Fire in Randall County, which has been brought to 30% containment: https://t.co/69lk9ct4jv
Wildfire NOTD subscriber Tom Schultz, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, discussed recovery efforts across national forests and grasslands which continue to progress following damage caused over three years by natural disasters, including wildfires: https://t.co/pp5lAjhU3Q
Record-breaking heat and drought have fueled the world’s worst-ever start to a wildfire year, with more than 150 million hectares burned worldwide, roughly double the seasonal average for this period: https://t.co/6yW1pZNyhD
A California Highway Patrol motorcycle got an unexpected paint job when a CAL FIRE S-2T air-tanker dropped retardant on a wildfire burning near the San Luis Obispo County community of Templeton over the weekend: https://t.co/xnyIzrHeWl
Wildfire NOTD subscriber Brian Fennessy, Director of the US Wildland Fire Service (https://t.co/HfDZJ1yLYc), warned that it's extremely dry across the U.S. and that the agency is facing one of the most severe fire seasons in recent history: https://t.co/uUxeN38Nhm
A new study published in the journal Science by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that every dollar spent on forest fuel treatments across the western U.S. saves about $3.75 in wildfire damage: https://t.co/cc32Z9VGhb
As the West heads into what is projected to be a dangerous wildfire season following a dry winter and historically low snowpack, there has been a sharp decline in the number of Incident Management Teams expected to ride herd on wildland blazes: https://t.co/Jry0821CKI