RedZone is happy to be taking part in the annual Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Conference to be held this year in late March at the Peppermill Resort in Reno, Nevada.…
Adam PrellJanuary 27, 2017
When a wildfire results in damage to homes and other structures, there is often great public interest in knowing how the fire started. More often than not, the cause is not surprising:…
Adam PrellJanuary 22, 2017
Another Severe Storm on Deck As much of the United States is still feeling the effects of the severe storms that distressed the country last week, the nation braces for…
Michael CoxJanuary 17, 2017
Drought conditions across California were steadily improving as we closed out 2016. This past week has further weakened the drought’s stranglehold on the state. A series of severe winter storms…
Michael CoxJanuary 14, 2017
Fire Season in 2016 saw no shortage of headline-filling wildfires across the US and North America. However, 2016’s final numbers for both total starts and total acres burned actually came in below…
Adam PrellJanuary 7, 2017
Valparaíso Fire On the afternoon of January 2nd, around 400 people were forced to evacuate Valparaíso, a coastal port city in central Chile, due to a forest fire that entered a…
RedZoneJanuary 3, 2017
It's no secret that California has been in a major drought for the last five years. This has resulted in larger and more aggressive wildfires during that time, keeping firefighters…
John MeadJanuary 2, 2017
Sage Fire near Simi Valley Around 2:30 pm on Tuesday, December 20th, a brush fire broke out on a neighborhood hillside in Simi Valley, California, near Los Angeles. The Sage…
RedZoneDecember 27, 2016
Wildfire Season in 2016 was below average in terms of acreage with almost 62,000 fire ignitions totaling 5.3million acres (down from a record 10 million acres burned last year). But this year was especially destructive in…
Michael CoxDecember 20, 2016
