by Garett Dworman | Dec 19, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Hazards, Preparedness, Wildfire
Photo from WikiMedia Commons Prescribed burns are nothing new. Native Americans incorporated controlled burns into their culture not just to reduce wildfire fuel, but also as a vital tool in their agriculture and industry. “Indigenous people have been...
by Garett Dworman | Dec 17, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Hazards, Preparedness, Wildfire
In 2020, a series of wildfires burned in Napa county CA. My mom lived just 25 miles away. She was worried. She had heard that embers can blow miles downwind from a fire and burn down houses. Was she right to be worried? Short answer: No. The Napa fires never...
by Susanne | Dec 16, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Hazards, Wildfire
Photo from InciWeb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons “What people don’t often realize is that hand crews are kind of the cornerstone … putting in hand lines, that’s essentially the way we stop the fire from growing.” — Mike Johnson, Assistant Fire...
by Garett Dworman | Dec 15, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Hazards, Recovery, Wildfire
Just because the fire is gone, doesn’t mean the crisis is over. There is much to do after a fire has swept through your neighborhood. Returning home Here are some key safety steps Calfire urges you to take when returning home after being evacuated: First of...
by Susanne | Dec 14, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Evacuation, Hazards, Wildfire
Mary has a little lamb. In fact, she has twenty-seven of them. One day, a wildfire breaks out. Mary, her farm, and all her little lambs are in the evacuation zone. Mary’s lambs and all their moms won’t fit into her pickup truck, so she doesn’t want to go. Can...
by Zach Pipkin | Dec 13, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Hazards, Wildfire
Humans have been counting for a long time. There is strong archeological evidence to support the hypothesis that we’ve been doing it for at least 50,000 years. Over time, mathematics has come to be known as a universal language. Globally, we may have different...
