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Thursday, May 01, 2014

WILDFIRE NEWS OF THE DAY - 050114


United States

(1) Wildfire NOTD subscriber Ed Story, CEO of the Aerial Fire Response & Research Network, sent along a link to an ESRI utility that displays NOAA wind info across the US coupled with MODIS hotspot information that could be useful to those battling wind-driven wildfires
US Wildfire Activity

(2) Wildfire NOTD subscriber Chris Mehl, Director of Public Policy at Headwaters Economics, sent along a new study which finds that while Firewise activities improve home wildfire safety, there is no evidence they reduce wildfire suppression costs
Study Finds No Evidence Firewise Lowers Suppression Costs

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