Like so many years before, the 2018 fire season is off to a record-setting pace of voracious consumption of thousands of acres, homes and, tragically, human life. The last decade has seen records set and broken at a pace that I have never experienced, nor have any of the seasoned colleagues whom I am fortunate to call friends and fellow firefighters.
This pattern of large-scale, rapid explosion across the landscape is being replicated all across our nation and is a significant issue that the fire service, society and our government at the state and local level must face—and one for which we must develop solutions.
Risk and personal responsibility
Fires will continue to happen. Throughout our country, continued expansion in the wildland/urban interface (WUI), together…
