The Australian town of Marysville once faced the same questions being asked in the Los Angeles neighborhoods that burned.

1. Upgrade external vents. Traditional external vents are designed to ventilate rooms and roofs. But they also permit embers ...

They knew that Australia, heading into its own fire season ... an Albuquerque-based aerial firefighting company contracted by the U.S. Forest Service to combat the L.A.-area fires. “But I’m at a point ...

More fuel reduction burns are needed across regional Victoria to ease the burden on rural firefighters, a former CSIRO ...

Too many homes will remain vulnerable to climate-related extreme weather events unless there is better coordinated housing ...

Chris Hardman from Forest Fire Management Victoria warned that ... are fueling increasingly severe natural disasters across Australia, researchers have found. Scientists have documented a marked ...

This article first appeared in Wildfire magazine. The author, Rick McRae, argues that the impacts of climate change must be ...

As the Los Angeles Times details, Marysville, Australia, burned down in 2009 as a result of a fast-moving brush fire fed by hurricane ... hurdles like the dense forest nearby and few escape ...

An Australian fire chief reflects on possible lessons for ... compounded by the drain of staff at federal agencies such as the Forest Service and Department of the Interior, which together hire ...