Wildfires, Arizona, Utah, Colorado Wildfires

Cigarettes are one of the main cause of wildfires, the other is camp fires not being extinguished properly, that is 90% of wildfires are caused by human mistakes Joyce (2017). The Texas Panhandle is going through a drought, while everyone is praying for rain. Once a wildfire starts it is very hard to control, even with the hard-working fire fighters. There are many other helpful individuals that track the signs of wildfires, such as the National Park Service.

Every Spring and Summer, Arizona loses more wilderness to the devastation of Wildfire. Our beautiful green forests and mountains are charred black not to be seen by this generation or the next. The poor and the rich are driven from their homes and cities before wildfire’s indiscriminate destructive might. Memories and dreams are wiped clean by fire and lives are forever changed. In June of 2011, Arizona had 2 major wildfires burning simultaneously. The Wallow fire in the White Mountains of Eastern Arizona and the Monument fire on Arizona’s southeastern border in the Chiricahua Mountains. Most of the valley fire departments sent teams of firefighters to combat these historic fires including myself. The human drama and fire behavior

For as long as mankind can conceive, fire has been a remarkable tool to conquer. When controlled, it provides necessary heat, energy, and fuel for a consumer to use; however, when fire goes unattended, it has the potential to become a wholly destructive element. The more western states of America, such as Utah and Colorado, have repeatedly experienced this concept in its most devastating form: wildfires. A wildfire is generally considered to be difficult to control and fast moving, swallowing anything that lay in its path, including forest or human habitat. As human incursion reaches more remote areas in wooded mountains, wildfires pose a serious threat to high-end homes and secluded cabins. The untamed nature of these fires also allows them to creep into subdivisions and endanger more

The first factor in the fire was that colorado was going through a drought. The drought led to very dry conditions making the area very susceptible to fires. The conditions were the driest they had been in 30 year. On june 8th when the fire started there was a very dry air mass over colorado. There was also a low pressure system in washington that made for very windy conditions in colorado at 15 mph with gusts of 30 mph. These extremely dry conditions along with it being windy made the perfect conditions for this fire to spread rapidly. Once the fire started the wind pushed the flames quickly through the forest. When the fire was first spotted the fire was fought very aggressively sending in planes and helicopters to drop water on it but the fire spread too fast and led to it becoming the massive fire that it

In the summer of 1910 Northern Idaho and Western Montana were hit by what seemed like a never ending series of destructive forest fires. With the spring bringing hardly any rainfall and drying winds from the Columbia plains, creeks began to disappear and the montane forests became dry. Intense heat along with high winds and dry vegetation create the perfect environment for forest fires. In June and July several dry electric storms hit the mountains and fires began to develop in isolated corners of the forest. The U.S. Forest Service which had just been developed in 1905 consisted of forest rangers on horseback climbing the mountains and protecting the forest from fires (Bergoffen, 1976). As the

I choose this article because this is happening today. In this article the fire is spreading in San Simeon, California, (in the west area), Washington, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, Palm Springs, and San Francisco. All of these states were on fire either today or few days ago. In San Simeon about 16 homes were burned in the northwest. California’s wildfire destroyed 34 house and 14 other building. Washington, Washington, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, Palm Springs, and San Francisco house, land, and other building were burned down and many people tried to help to stop the wild fire.

More than a dozen wildfires in California have destroyed at least 1,500 homes in the past few days. According to this article, wildfires send smoke, soot, toxic gases and tiny particles into the air, which can be carried for tens or even hundreds of miles, and have been linked to respiratory and heart problems. Air pollution too my knowledge would be a big problem in California. Some of the most obvious health effects of wildfire smoke are itchy eyes, a burning or runny nose and coughing and the more time you spend outside when it’s smoky, the worse these symptoms are likely to get in my opinion. In addition, treated wood in a house’s frame, for instance, put there to prevent bacteria growth, can contain copper, chromium and arsenic. Consumer

California is one of the states affected by this problem. Every-time I watch the news, I see that Californians are coming with new technology to deal with this issue. We were experiencing lack of rain in Colorado Springs during the fires more than 2 years ago. Not only we lacked of rain fall, but the carbon release from the fires was way above of what the trees can absorb. The more fires we have in an area, the more carbon capture and release unbalance we have in the area adjacent. The quantitative data shown in your thread is a great method to find out more about this research. Great post!

Wildfire risk in California refers to the chance wildfires may occur as a result of human interference with nature. In the book, “Our Changing Climate 2012” by the California Natural Resources Agency, the author discusses how computer projections project that in the future, the global warming will increase at a higher rate. The author claims that “wildfire risk increases in California will also be driven to a large extent by changes in land use and development.”(Agency 3). In other words, developing real estate and construction increases the chance of wildfires. Gathering from the Agency, only by consciously constructing the human environment can society reduce the risks of wildfires. This awareness is relevant today because over the 2017

Wildfire in California is a significant environmental problem that is increasing becoming more severe. Recent studies have shown that wildfire frequency, size, and area burned are all increasing in the western United States (Miller et al. 2008). The 2015 fire season set a record for the amount of acres burned in the United States with 68,151 wildfires burning 10,125,149 acres of land (Insurance Information Institute 2015). High severity wildfires have substantial environmental, economic, and human health impacts. Policy changes such as an adaptive management system of fuel reduction, as well as communication and education are essential tools in combating wildfire in California.

What I believe to be the greatest present environmental problem faced by California is the forest fire. A drought has continued for four years in California, and on April fool’s day, 2015, Jerry Brown, California governor, 　eventually issued a saving water order. It is undoubtedly that the water shortage is one of the problems that California has, but the most serious problem is the forest fire. Since it doesn’t rain and the air is exceedingly dry in California, when a forest fire breaks out, the fire spreads in an instant, and the fire causes great damage; for example, a large-scale forest fire broke out in a northern part of San Diego, California, on May.21, 2015. 11,000 households were warned to evacuate the area; at least one million square

Much like all events and natural phenomena that pose a threat to civilization, humans have learned to cope with and prevent the loss of human life and destruction of property in devastating blazes that can break out seemingly at random. Fighting fires was not always the science it is today, but due to the use of new technologies and the fundamental understanding of what fire is, how it spreads, how it can kill, and how it is stopped, our protocol when dealing with fires has increased our success rate and continues to grow with applications of engineering, chemistry, and meteorology.

An unusually devastating series of Colorado wildfires, including several separate fires that occurred throughout June, July, and August 2012. At least 34,500 residents were evacuated in June. With record insured losses, and the evacuation of 32,000 residents in the northwestern quadrant of Colorado Springs where 347 homes were destroyed in the Waldo Canyon Fire, the largest number in state history.These fires destroyed more than 648 structures, killed six civilians, burned more than 384,803 acres and have caused at least $538 million in property losses,” according to a preliminary report on the season by the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control.

F. In the scholarly, “Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States” which approved on January 06 of the year 2017, the researchers confirm that humans have a huge influence of wildfires and humans contribute to over 84% of wildfires in the government-recorded from the year1992 to the year 2012.

Humans have been changing the Western forests' fire system since the settlement by the Europeans and now we are experiencing the consequences of those changes. During the summer of 2002, 6.9 million acres of forests was burnt up in the West (Wildland Fires, 1). This figure is two times the ten year annual average, and it does not look like next summer will be any better (Wildfire Season, 1).