Senators ask utility companies about fire risk ahead of dry season
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KHON2— In the wake of the Lahaina fire, wildfire safety is at the forefront in Hawaii.
KTVZ—Central Oregon Wildfire School returns, teaching crucial skills for firefighters ahead of another busy fire season. SUNRIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) -- For the next several days, Central Oregon Fire Management Service is once again partnering with structural firefighting departments around the region to provide an immersive scenario-based wildland firefighting program designed to increase firefighters’ understanding of wildland firefighting suppression tactics, mutual aid and the dynamics of interagency response in an emerging wildfire
PAHOMEPAGE—PSP: Car ignites on fire due to dry leaves. CHESTNUT HILL TWP., MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — State police report a car ignited on fire due to dry leaves near the exhaust. State police report a car went up in flames on the side of Effort-Neola Road near the intersection of Little Mexico Road in Chestnuthill Twp, Monroe County. The driver returned to his car []
DutchNews.nl—Fire experts warn about risk of outdated building regulations. New, fast methods of construction to offset the shortage of housing, and energy efficiency measures such as wall cladding, require a rethink of building regulations, public safety institute NIPV and the fire brigade said on Monday. If the risks are not properly analysed, when so much is being done and so quickly, there is a real risk that people could die, the NIPV said in a new report. “In particular, vulnerable people run risks in this sort of housing,’ fire expert Lieuwe de Witte