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Addressing Firefighter Fatigue and Welfare Is a Worthwhile Goal
Workweek Change Aims to Address Legitimate Concerns About Firefighter Welfare. The state has experienced some of the most severe wildfire seasons in its history in recent years. As discussed previously, these wildfires have placed significant strains on the state’s firefighters, many of whom have been asked to work for extended periods with few breaks. These long periods of work have been difficult for firefighters as well as for their families. By switching from a 72‑hour workweek to a 66‑hour workweek, the typical schedule for a firefighter would include roughly one fewer 24‑hour shift per month than is currently the case. This, in turn, could provide some additional time off for firefighters, thus helping to address the legitimate concerns about fatigue that have resulted from these recent wildfire seasons.
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Bond Fire

Orange
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Willow Fire

San Diego
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Airport Fire

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257 Fire

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49 


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The work of cutting hand line can often last for hours and take place right next to live fire. 

 

Living quarters at the Magalia Fire Center consist of dorm-style residence halls with separate housing. Rooms are designed for two or more Corpsmembers. Everyone eats breakfast and dinner in the dining hall.
Personal vehicles are allowed at the center, and there is plenty of parking.
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When not fighting wildfires, Magalia Corpsmembers work with CAL FIRE to reduce the threat of wildfire in Butte County by completing fuel reduction projects. 

 

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Corpsmembers in the culinary program are trained in a variety of cooking techniques and styles, including baking.

 

All Corpsmembers at the Magalia Fire Center complete Corpsmember Orientation, Motivation, Education, and Training (COMET) and core training courses. Specialized trainings and certifications available at the center include:

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Corpsmembers train with and work directly with CCC and CAL FIRE personnel as Type 1 fire crews that work on “hot” lines on the fire’s edge. Experience as a Magalia Fire Center firefighter can lead to career opportunities in wildland firefighting.
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There are a number of tools that can support community forests. Stewardship contracting, which allows community groups to enter into contracts with the Forest Service and BLM to accomplish projects on public lands, has been used effectively by a number of community forest groups. There are publications and websites that offer guidance for starting a community forest, and document successes all over the world.

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NASA “Wildfire Digital Twin” Pioneers New AI Models and Streaming Data Techniques for Forecasting Fire and Smoke - NASA Science
These particles, also known as PM 2.5, can cause serious health issues even if a person is nowhere near an active burn.“When these fires ignite and start to burn, they produce smoke, and this smoke travels considerable distances. It affects people not only locally, but also at distances of thousands of kilometers or more,” said Halem.Data from the controlled burn will also help Halem and his team quantify the relationship between aerosols and precipitation. Increased aerosols from wildfires have a huge impact on cloud formation, which in turn impacts how precipitation occurs downstream of an affected fire burn.Assimilating all this information as it streams from sensors in real time is essential for detailing the full impact of wildfires at local, regional, and global scales.PROJECT LEADMilton Halem, University of Maryland at Baltimore CountySPONSORING ORGANIZATIONNASA’s FireSense Technology Program, a part of the agency’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), funds this project.ShareDetailsLast UpdatedMay 21, 2024EditorNASA Science Editorial Team Related TermsEarth ScienceEarth Science Technology OfficeScience-enabling TechnologyTechnologyTechnology HighlightsWildfiresExplore More5 min readNASA’s Compact Infrared Cameras Enable New ScienceA new, higher-resolution infrared camera outfitted with a variety of lightweight filters could probe sunlight reflected off Earth’s upper atmosphere and surface, improve forest fire warnings, and reveal the molecular composition of other planets. The cameras use sensitive, high-resolution strained-layer superlattice sensors, initially developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, using IRAD, […]Article2 days ago 2 min readTech Today: From Spacesuits to Racing SuitsFor spacewalks to even be possible, spacesuits need insulation and temperature controls to withstand temperature swings between 250 and minus 250 degrees Fahrenheit. This extreme environment made NASA innovators look beyond everyday materials to find something unique to keep explorers comfortable and safe.
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Drought Fuels Wildfires in the Amazon
The system also detected large numbers of understory forest fires, a particularly harmful type of fire that can cause damage that persists for decades.
“Deforestation fires are happening this year as well, but I’m especially worried about the addition of so many understory forest fires associated with the drought,” said Douglas Morton, chief of the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “This is a classic response to El Niño. We’ve seen lower rainfall and lower river levels and water tables—conditions that made it more likely that fires could escape their intended boundaries and burn into standing Amazon rainforest.”
It is possible to identify some understory forest fires with the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) sensors on the Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 satellites, but it’s challenging for satellites to detect all of them because they often burn beneath dense canopy. Sensors on Landsat 8 and 9 and the Sentinel-2 satellites offer more detailed observations than VIIRS and can sometimes detect understory fires, though they pass over the Amazon basin less frequently than VIIRS.
The false-color image above, captured by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) sensor on Landsat 9, shows an example of several understory fires burning in densely forested areas south of Manaus. The use of the sensor’s observations in the shortwave infrared makes it easier to identify fires.
“Understory fires are lose-lose: they degrade the value of forests and contribute to climate change,” added Morton. “We’ve been working as quickly as possible to get data from the SERVIR Amazon Fire Dashboard and several satellites about the location of these fires to fire brigades on the ground to support suppression efforts as quickly as possible. This is an all-hands-on-deck situation.”
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

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With an El Niño brewing in the Pacific, uncontrolled fires are burning beneath the canopy in some parts of the rainforest.
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Drought Fuels Wildfires in the Amazon

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In the absence of human activity, fires would not burn in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. It’s too wet, even during the driest parts of the year. Yet for as long as satellites have made large-scale monitoring of the rainforest possible, researchers have observed thousands of fires in the Amazon every year, with especially intense activity during the dry months of July through November.
2023 is no exception. Satellite observations from several fire monitoring platforms, including the SERVIR Amazon Fire Dashboard, the Brazilian Space Agency’s Queimadas program, and NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System have detected large numbers of fires burning throughout the Amazon basin since the start of the year. They have also observed particularly intense fire activity in September and October in the northern and western Amazon as drought tightened its grip on the region.
Every year, people intentionally light large numbers of fires in the Amazon basin. Often, the goal is to clear forests or manage crops and pastures, though there are an array of other reasons including burning trash or starting cooking fires. Some fires are unintentional ignitions associated with human activity, including discarded cigarettes or sparks from electrical or farming equipment.