Natural disasters involving fires, including forest fires and wildland fires. Includes information on causes, firefighting strategies and techniques and greater ecological and environmental impact of fires.
With climate change turning up the temperature and the state in a four-year drought, wildfires are scorching California like never before. In the "nuke zone" scientists are looking for clues to how forests cope.
Each year more than 2,500 people die and 12,600 are injured in home fires in the United States, with direct property loss due to home fires estimated at $7.3 billion annually. Home fires can be prevented!
With climate change turning up the temperature and the state in a four-year drought, wildfires are scorching California like never before. In the "nuke zone" scientists are looking for clues to how forests cope.
Each year more than 2,500 people die and 12,600 are injured in home fires in the United States, with direct property loss due to home fires estimated at $7.3 billion annually. Home fires can be prevented!
