Provincial and federal funding for the creation of six new urban wildland urban interface crews was announced by Mike Ellis, Alberta's minister of public safety and emergency services, centre ...

By Melinda Newman Keith Urban will be honored at the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday (May 8) with the prestigious Triple Crown Award. The award signifies an achievement that only ...

The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) refers to areas where human-made structures and infrastructure; homes, neighborhoods, and roads are located near or within natural areas such as the forests that ...

Wildfire risks are especially high on the "wildland-urban interface," the areas where homes meet the desert. Those areas have grown by 51% since 1990. The profile of Maricopa County's wildland ...

Martin detailed the district’s water system capacity, drawing from the Sooke ... equipped with multiple fire trucks, pumper trucks and a pumper tanker. “The biggest threat that we face is what we call ...

Smoke from wildland-urban interface fires more deadly than remote wildfires. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250314170427.htm ...

The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds. The study, published this ...

Smoke from wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires is significantly more harmful to human health than smoke from wildfires in remote areas. A new study finds that emissions from WUI fires are ...

“We have a lot more people moving into this wildland-urban interface — moving into areas with flammable vegetation,” she said. “And when you have people in those areas, you have more likelihood of ...

Sacramento, California, March 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On February 26, 2025, the State of California adopted the 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code® (IWUIC®) as the basis for ...

Like the Earth’s beauty is palpable. But, it can also be cause for concern. Over 3.5 billion people live in the wildland-urban interface, or WUI — the zone where cities meet and intermingle with ...

In the 1990s, about 917,000 homes in the Bay Area were in wildland-urban Interface areas, or WUI. Those areas are on land that is on the edge or within the wilderness, putting it at high fire risk.