WILDFIRE NEWS OF THE DAY - 020413
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has added evacuation
assistance to its Wildfire Defense Services offered to homeowners in 14 western
US states (1). The California Fire Science Consortium
sent along their February newsletter (2); but the US Forest Service is worried
about above-average fire activity in southeastern Arizona unless rain arrives
soon (3). Evacuations were performed in Jefferson County, Colorado, yesterday
due to a five-acre wildfire in the Hayman Burn Area (4); while the next article
discusses rebuilding efforts in Creek County, Oklahoma, six months after the
largest wildfire in state history scorched 60,000 acres (5). South Dakota's
Yankton Fire Department reflected on a busy 2012 in which grass fires were a
major concern (6); and an article from British Columbia, Canada, profiles West
Kootenay Regional Airport, which hosts the Southeast Fire Centre & Air
Tanker Base (7). St. Kitts-Nevis Fire and Rescue Services firefighters quickly
squelched a bushfire that threatened homes in the Caribbean island nation of
Saint Kitts and Nevis (8); but with nine northern provinces at risk from
bushfires, Thailand is relying on satellites to help with bushfire detection
(9). An editorial touches the possibility that Australian insurers may stop
offering policies in bushfire-prone areas (10). Back burning operations in
Victoria's Alpine National Park aim to help rope in a bushfire that has already
burned 6,400 ha on the slopes of Mount Hotham (11); while scientists are trying
to determine if an ancient grove of ash trees was wiped out by the Black
Saturday bushfires (12). The Newcastle Knights will be doing some public
service with a rescue chopper crew to assist relief efforts for bushfire
survivors in Coonabarabran, New South Wales (13); and the Tamworth Aero Club
will be helping out the Bushfire Appeal Race Meeting as well (14). As
South Australia transitions into the worst bushfire danger period of the
year, Country Fire Service is urging property owners to finalize cleanup
of fuel around their places (15); and a post-op on a bushfire that
burned on the grounds of the Ross River Resort in Northern Territory last
month is provided by Bushfires NT in the next article (16). A
500-hectare bushfire has damaged property in Esperance on Western Australia's
south coast (17); another blaze causing some angst outside of Boddington (18).
And finally, India's Army is in trouble with residents of Bangalore who have an
odd complaint: urban wildfires!
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