Project aims to lessen surprise of extreme wildfires
By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
Are wildfires becoming more extreme?
As part of an effort to answer that question, Nevada researcher Tamara Wall is calling on current and past wildland firefighters across the nation to share personal experiences of instances in which they witnessed surprising fire behavior.
“This project is driven by a phrase increasingly heard among fire agencies at the management level: I’ve never seen a fire behave like that before,” said Wall, who is leading a collaborative effort between the U.S. Forest Service and the Desert Research Institute, a nonprofit research campus of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Participants are encouraged to provide as many experiences as they want in an online program that takes as little as five minutes to complete.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
This question is unanswerable. 100 years of firefighter testimony ain’t crap compared to eons and countless cycles of drought and of forest fires. Consider, the Sahara was once a rainforest. Like trying to predict global warming.. Oops . Did I go there?
When will humans learn?! Nature is a force much greater than us. We can’t control it and to think we can is complete arrogance and more so, stupidity.
@Kits-we may not be able to control nature, but we can affect it. For better or worse.