A firefighter looks on during the efforts to control fire in a rainforest located in the municipality of Canta, Roraima state, Brazil, February 29, 2024. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
PSA for Californians: make sure you have the Watch Duty app on your phone, and that notifications are enabled for yours and nearby counties. FIRE SEASON IS HERE 🔥
Notifications may have been disabled automatically by your phone doing permissions cleanup due to disuse during the wet season.
"Douglas County Sheriff WILDFIRE WARNING, Level 2 Evacuation Advisory in BATTERMAN ROAD, BATTERMAN ROAD, ANDERSON LANE, KEANE GRADE ROAD, SAGELAND ROAD. Roads/evacuation routes can become blocked; if you do not leave now, you could be trapped, injured, or killed. For updates check Local Radio/TV"
Small wildfire has started up on the east side of Pikes Peak, we had a lot of lightning yesterday. Timestamp 2:54 pm 6/2/24 #pikespeak#wildfire#coloradosprings
The Atchuelinguk wildfire is burning in tundra in the lower Yukon River area north of Marshall in western Alaska (Yupik county). This is prime time for tundra wildfire: after snowmelt but before vegetation green-up, so last year’s dried grass and brush. #akwx#Wildfire#Spring2024
Got some more notices from Watch Duty today about a wildfire in my county but nowhere near me — a fire that was quickly extinguished. I smiled when I saw the familiar-to-me reporter name: Michael Silvester, who is in New Zealand. (He was CA Fire Scanner on Twitter.)
If you're in the Western US and at all concerned about wildfires, I highly recommend the Watch Duty app.
"Coal seam fires, which can smolder underground for years before coming to the surface, pose a threat to firefighters due to the noxious gases they emit and the potential for burned ground below them to collapse. They are virtually impossible to extinguish and carry over from year-to-year smoldering under the snow cover. " #coal#wildfire
"!!SET NOTICE!! This is a SET notice for Ranchman's Camp and Magado's Creek subdivisions to Prepare to evacuate. If you wish to voluntarily evacuate you may go to the Fairgrounds at 101 5th in Capitan"
#SunValley & #SierraVista#NewMexico: #Lincoln County Emergency Management: A #wildfire is moving toward Sun Valley and Sierra Vista. Residents and visitors should either voluntarily evacuate now to a shelter located at Capitan Fairgrounds or a family/friend's home outside of the affected area. If choosing to remain, be ready to evacuate at a moment's notice. More information, tune into 1490 AM. Source: Village of #Ruidoso
With wildfire smoke season here, we all need to think about air quality inside where we spend most of our time. This article provides multiple examples measuring the air quality inside my home from wildfire smoke and cooking.
Currently if King County WA needs to produce an evacuation map they only do so as a PDF. County emergency management (EM) staff says it would be very expensive to have county GIS staff produce an interactive evacuation map.
I volunteered to write data conversion code (geojson > kmz) so King County WA could use Google maps as an interactive evacuation map.
EM staff says policy prohibits them from using outside help that is not officially approved. So I contacted county procurement asking how I can get approved as a volunteer consultant. See pic for their reply. #PNW#EmergencyManagement#Wildfire 🙄 🤦♂️
Summer is almost upon us, and Canada is already on fire, so I guess it's time to share this again: my guide to the dangers of smoke, why you really don't want to breathe it, and how to get your air purifier situation set up before the smoke comes.
#Mexico, #Guatemala, #Belize all experiencing extreme record breaking heatwaves accompanied by widespread wildfires and smoke danger. (Image 1 showing increased risk of heat-humidity stress days as we continue to heat)
Instrument readings:
+1.63ºC 12-month running mean above preindustrial (Berkeley Earth/ERA5 datasets)
+1.3ºC latest 5-year average above preindustrial
can confirm. family worked in the wildfire management business for 25 years, back when you could make a living doing it, and retire with a good pension. staff now face a depressing reality.
1/_ 🧵 Many counties (including mine - King County WA) use the CodeRed system for alerting people about a wildfire evacuation. Recently I traded email with county staff and got some details about how this works.
If your county’s emergency management web page shows they use CodeRed then there should be a signup link. When you signup, enter your address or use the map by dragging the marker, zooming in and repeating until the marker is where you live.
If my area is ordered to evacuate then I want to get that message by every means possible. We have a landline so I entered our “Home phone” number, my cell number and my main email address that I check the most often. #PNW#Wildfire