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# Wildfire and the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)

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Explore these resources to help you prepare for a safe wildland fire response and to create and sustain a fire-adapted community.

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Fire departments across the country are increasingly being called upon to respond to WUI fires, including brush, grass, forest fires or other outdoor fires. You may believe that you don't have a WUI problem, and that WUI fires only occur in western states, but more than **60,000 communities** in the United States are at risk for WUI fires. Source: National Association of State Foresters PDF

Learn about the WUI

Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission releases report outlining comprehensive recommendations to change the nation’s relationship with wildfire

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This video shows how the fire service can help communities create healthy landscapes that will keep people safer and create communities that are more resilient.

 https://youtu.be/of2raSjd3uE

### Wildland Urban Interface (WUI): A Look at Issues and Resolutions

A report of recommendations for elected officials, policymakers and all levels of government, tribal and response agencies.

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### Creating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan

The form-fillable templates in this guide help you to create an action plan for your community and document assets at risk, forest and landscape health issues, and key stakeholders. The guide is available in English and Spanish.

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### Be a wildfire safety recreation enthusiast

Use these social media cards to share important messages about practicing wildfire safety while taking part in outdoor activities this summer.
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### Wildland Urban Interface Firefighting for the Structural Company Officer F0610  

This 2-day off-campus course covers:
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### Preliminary After-Action Report: 2023 Maui Wildfire

Maui PD's preliminary after-action report makes 32 recommendations to improve Maui's police response to future natural disaster response efforts.
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### The importance of good grant reporting

Receiving a grant is just the beginning; project implementation, thorough financial reporting and grant reporting are just as important.
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### New research on inhalation exposures for wildland firefighters

Learn about the new NIOSH research on smoke inhalation exposures for wildland firefighters and their effects on firefighter's health.
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### Wildland fire lessons learned center launches enhanced website

Check out the new website from Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center that features in-the-field lessons drawn from successes, challenges, close calls and firefighter fatalities to increase safety.
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### Surviving Wildfire: A Tale of Two Communities

Learn how fire-adapted work helped communities in Colorado and Virginia survive wildfires with no deaths, no injuries and no structure loss in this short, easy-to-share digital presentation.

Grants and funding
Funding opportunities for wildland fire mitigation projects and incident response.

Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission
The commission is tasked with forming federal policy recommendations and strategies on ways to better prevent, manage, suppress and recover from wildfires.

Commission releases strategy to meet aerial firefighting equipment needs

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