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.