Better fire modeling is important, but so is baking that knowledge into easy-to-use tools for burn crews ... to the slope of the forest, using their torches to draw lines of flame that burned ...

Also, MFS Director Patty Cormier is urging Maine’s fire chiefs and town forest fire wardens to use extreme caution or suspend the issuance of written open burning ... it is easy to extinguish.

By Amanda Holpuch A wildfire in northern New Mexico that destroyed at least 330 homes and displaced thousands of people was caused by a planned burn by the U.S. Forest Service, federal fire ...