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| california fire history map: California Burning Katherine Blunt, 2022-08-30 A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise – and the human cost of infrastructure failure Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart—unraveling a long history of deadly failures in which Pacific Gas and Electric endangered millions of Northern Californians, through criminal neglect of its infrastructure. As PG&E prioritized profits and politics, power lines went unchecked—until a rusted hook purchased for 56 cents in 1921 split in two, sparking the deadliest wildfire in California history. Beginning with PG&E’s public reckoning after the Paradise fire, Blunt chronicles the evolution of PG&E’s shareholder base, from innovators who built some of California's first long-distance power lines to aggressive investors keen on reaping dividends. Following key players through pivotal decisions and legal battles, California Burning reveals the forces that shaped the plight of PG&E: deregulation and market-gaming led by Enron Corp., an unyielding push for renewable energy, and a swift increase in wildfire risk throughout the West, while regulators and lawmakers pushed their own agendas. California Burning is a deeply reported, character-driven narrative, the story of a disaster expanding into a much bigger exploration of accountability. It’s an American tragedy that serves as a cautionary tale for utilities across the nation—especially as climate change makes aging infrastructure more vulnerable, with potentially fatal consequences. |
| california fire history map: Fire in California's Ecosystems Jan W. van Wagtendonk, 2018-06-08 Fire in California’s Ecosystems describes fire in detail—both as an integral natural process in the California landscape and as a growing threat to urban and suburban developments in the state. Written by many of the foremost authorities on the subject, this comprehensive volume is an ideal authoritative reference tool and the foremost synthesis of knowledge on the science, ecology, and management of fire in California. Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology, including overviews of historical fires, vegetation, climate, weather, fire as a physical and ecological process, and fire regimes, and reviews the interactions between fire and the physical, plant, and animal components of the environment. Part Two explores the history and ecology of fire in each of California's nine bioregions. Part Three examines fire management in California during Native American and post-Euro-American settlement and also current issues related to fire policy such as fuel management, watershed management, air quality, invasive plant species, at-risk species, climate change, social dynamics, and the future of fire management. This edition includes critical scientific and management updates and four new chapters on fire weather, fire regimes, climate change, and social dynamics. |
| california fire history map: The Chinchaga Firestorm Cordy Tymstra, 2015-06-18 How the biggest forest fire in North American history affected and changed forest fire management. |
| california fire history map: Desert Notebooks Ben Ehrenreich, 2020-07-07 Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound. |
| california fire history map: Paradise Lizzie Johnson, 2021 The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire-the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century-and a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds ... A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again-- |
| california fire history map: Forest Fires Edward A. Johnson, 2001-03-01 Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities depend on fire to generate species diversity in both time and space. Without fire such ecosystems would become sterile monocultures. Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire dependent communities have contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and ecological effects of fires. This book will be the first to focus on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have been recruited by the editors to prepare a didactic text/reference that will appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals. |
| california fire history map: The Way to the Spring Ben Ehrenreich, 2016 In West Bank cities and small villages alike, men and women, young and old--a group of unforgettable characters--share their lives with Ehrenreich and make their own case for resistance and resilience in the face of life under occupation. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, they are a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine. |
| california fire history map: Fire Following Earthquake Charles Scawthorn, John M. Eidinger, Anshel Schiff, 2005-01-01 Prepared by the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE. This TCLEE Monograph covers the entire range of fire following earthquake (FFE) issues, from historical fires to 20th-century fires in Kobe, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and Northridge. FFE has the potential of causing catastrophic losses in the United States, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, and other seismically active countries with wood houses. This comprehensive book on FFE and urban conflagrations provides state-of-the-practice insight on unique issues, such as large diameter flex hose applications by fire and water departments. Topics include: History of past fires; Computer modeling of fire spread in the post-earthquake urban environment; Concurrent damage and fire impacts for water, power gas, communication and transportation systems; Examples of reliable water systems built or designed in San Francisco, Vancouver, Berkeley, and Kyoto; Use of large diameter (5 in.) and ultralarge diameter (12 in.) flex hose for fire fighting and water restoration; and Cost-effectiveness of various FFE mitigation strategies, with a detailed benefit-cost model. Water utility engineers, fire fighting professionals, and emergency response planners will benefit from reading this book. |
| california fire history map: The Fire Outside My Window Sandra Millers Younger, 2013-09-03 The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire is both a poignant memoir and a veteran journalist's narrative nonfiction account of a catastrophic event that crippled postcard-perfect San Diego and dominated international headlines in October 2003. Author Sandra Millers Younger's miraculous saga of escape, ruin and renewal unifies a tapestry of experiences woven from more than 100 interviews with firefighters, survivors and the families of those who died. The fire itself, one of the biggest and most destructive in California history, is the main character in this epic story--a rampaging monster, framed within historical context, battled by understaffed, under-equipped firefighters, and confronted from the rare perspective of terrified civilians caught in its path. Timing, location and weather conspired against air tankers, fire engines and bulldozers, enabling a lost hunter's signal fire to gather strength in the mountains east of San Diego. Overnight, a swelling wind sent flames galloping toward the Pacific, killing 15 people, 12 of them the author's neighbors; incinerating more than 2,200 homes, including hers; and creating a lunarscape 20 times the size of Manhattan In this revealing narrative, Younger takes readers into the heart of an epic firefight, telling the stories of fire chiefs and air tanker pilots trying to combat a catastrophe bigger than they had ever imagined, and recounting both survivors' and victims' desperate efforts to escape flames moving faster than fire engines could drive. The Fire Outside My Window is a riveting and nuanced tale that captures the intensity of a runaway wildfire, honors those lost to its fury, and celebrates the human spirit's innate capacity to triumph over adversity. |
| california fire history map: The Costs of Wildfire in California: California Council on Science and Technology, 2020-10-29 |
| california fire history map: Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy Dani Anguiano, Alastair Gee, 2020-05-05 The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire razed nearly every home in Paradise, California, and killed at least 85 people. Journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported on Paradise from the day the fire began and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts. Fire in Paradise is their dramatic narrative of the disaster and an unforgettable story of an American town at the forefront of the climate emergency. |
| california fire history map: A Century of Wildland Fire Research National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Committee on Increasing Resilience to Wildland Fire: A Century of Wildland Fire Research, 2017-09-30 Although ecosystems, humans, and fire have coexisted for millennia, changes in geology, ecology, hydrology, and climate as well as sociocultural, regulatory, and economic factors have converged to make wildland fire management exceptionally challenging for U.S. federal, state, and local authorities. Given the mounting, unsustainable costs and difficulty translating existing wildland fire science into policy, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a 1-day workshop to focus on how a century of wildland fire research can contribute to improving wildland fire management. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. |
| california fire history map: The Ever-changing View Anthony Godfrey, 2005 United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region |
| california fire history map: Fire Insurance Maps Diane L. Oswald, 1997 Fire insurance maps are the footprints of America's Industrial Revolution, ... relics that bear witness to the mortality of businesses, industries and cities--Cover. |
| california fire history map: First Order Fire Effects Model Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, Robert E. Keane, James Kerr Brown, 1997 A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States. The model is available as a computer program for PC or Data General computer. |
| california fire history map: Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests George E. Gruell, 2001 In Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests, George Gruell examines the woodlands through repeat photography: rephotographing sites depicted in historical photographs to compare past vegetation to present. The book asks readers to study the evidence, then take an active part in current debates over prescribed fire, fuel buildup, logging, and the management of our national forests. |
| california fire history map: The Demography of Disasters Dávid Karácsonyi, Andrew Taylor, Deanne Bird, 2020-09-17 This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations. Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change) and sudden disasters (such as cyclones and man-made disasters) have the capacity to fundamentally change the profiles of populations at local and regional levels. Impacts vary according to the type, rapidity and magnitude of the disaster, but also according to the pre-existing population profile and its relationships to the economy and society. In all cases, the key to understanding impacts and avoiding them in the future is to understand the relationships between disasters and population change. In most chapters in this book we compare and contrast studies from at least two cases and summarize their practical and theoretical lessons. |
| california fire history map: Facing Fire Douglas McCulloh, 2020-02-22 Fire as omen and elemental force, as metaphor and searing personal experience--these are the subjects Douglas McCulloh explores in Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West. California's diverse ecologies are fire-prone, fire-adapted, even fire-dependent. In the past two decades, however, West Coast wildfires have exploded in scale and severity. There is a powerful consensus that we have entered a new era--nature unbalanced, the end of the stable world. Douglas McCulloh has assembled the work of 16 artists who bring us incendiary images from active fire lines and psychic burn zones. Together the 16 artists face fire, sift its aftermath, struggle with its implications. Throughout is the uneasy sense that wildfire is a stand-in, a site of displacement for more immaterial fears, for the amorphous anxieties of the age. This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography February 22-August 9, 2020. |
| california fire history map: Tending the Wild M. Kat Anderson, 2005-06-14 A complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation. John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature. We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably. |
| california fire history map: Granite Mountain Brendan McDonough, Stephan Talty, 2015-05-12 The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A unique and bracing (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 hotshots -- firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona. Their leader, Eric Marsh, was in a desperate crunch after four hotshots left the unit, and perhaps seeing a glimmer of promise in the skinny would-be recruit, he took a chance on the unlikely McDonough, and the chance paid off. Despite the crew's skepticism, and thanks in large part to Marsh's firm but loving encouragement, McDonough unlocked a latent drive and dedication, going on to successfully battle a number of blazes and eventually win the confidence of the men he came to call his brothers. Then, on June 30, 2013, while McDonough -- Donut as he'd been dubbed by his team--served as lookout, they confronted a freak, 3,000-degree inferno in nearby Yarnell, Arizona. The relentless firestorm ultimately trapped his hotshot brothers, tragically killing all 19 of them within minutes. Nationwide, it was the greatest loss of firefighter lives since the 9/11 attacks. Granite Mountain is a gripping memoir that traces McDonough's story of finding his way out of the dead end of drugs, finding his purpose among the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and the minute-by-minute account of the fateful day he lost the very men who had saved him. A harrowing and redemptive tale of resilience in the face of tragedy, Granite Mountain is also a powerful reminder of the heroism of the people who put themselves in harm's way to protect us every day. |
| california fire history map: Firestorm Edward Struzik, 2017-10-05 Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists. —New York Times Book Review Comprehensive and compelling. —Booklist A powerful message. —Kirkus Should be required reading. —Library Journal For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the Beast.” It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it’s not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. A glance at international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands– a trifecta for igniting wildfires like we’ve rarely seen before. This change is particularly noticeable in the northern forests of the United States and Canada. These forests require fire to maintain healthy ecosystems, but as the human population grows, and as changes in climate, animal and insect species, and disease cause further destabilization, wildfires have turned into a potentially uncontrollable threat to human lives and livelihoods. Our understanding of the role fire plays in healthy forests has come a long way in the past century. Despite this, we are not prepared to deal with an escalation of fire during periods of intense drought and shorter winters, earlier springs, potentially more lightning strikes and hotter summers. There is too much fuel on the ground, too many people and assets to protect, and no plan in place to deal with these challenges. In Firestorm, journalist Edward Struzik visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as avoidable events because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly. Struzik weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics, politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we, and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires. |
| california fire history map: Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas Thomas T. Veblen, William L. Baker, Gloria Montenegro, Thomas W. Swetnam, 2006-05-10 Both fire and climatic variability have monumental impacts on the dynamics of temperate ecosystems. These impacts can sometimes be extreme or devastating as seen in recent El Nino/La Nina cycles and in uncontrolled fire occurrences. This volume brings together research conducted in western North and South America, areas of a great deal of collaborative work on the influence of people and climate change on fire regimes. In order to give perspective to patterns of change over time, it emphasizes the integration of paleoecological studies with studies of modern ecosystems. Data from a range of spatial scales, from individual plants to communities and ecosystems to landscape and regional levels, are included. Contributions come from fire ecology, paleoecology, biogeography, paleoclimatology, landscape and ecosystem ecology, ecological modeling, forest management, plant community ecology and plant morphology. The book gives a synthetic overview of methods, data and simulation models for evaluating fire regime processes in forests, shrublands and woodlands and assembles case studies of fire, climate and land use histories. The unique approach of this book gives researchers the benefits of a north-south comparison as well as the integration of paleoecological histories, current ecosystem dynamics and modeling of future changes. |
| california fire history map: Paradise on Fire Jewell Parker Rhodes, 2021-09-07 'Addy is a heroine any reader might aspire to be, a teenager who learns to trust her own voice and instincts, who realizes that fire can live within someone, too' - New York Times From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age survival tale set during a devastating wild fire. Addy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Now, years later, Addy's grandmother has enrolled her in a summer wilderness programme. There, Addy joins five other Black city kids - each with their own troubles - to spend a summer out west. Deep in the forest, the kids learn new (and to them) strange skills: camping, hiking, rock climbing and how to start and safely put out campfires. Most important, they learn to depend upon each other for companionship and survival. But then comes a furious forest fire ... From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change. |
| california fire history map: The Pig Book Citizens Against Government Waste, 2013-09-17 The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king! |
| california fire history map: A Manual of California Vegetation John Orvel Sawyer, Todd Keeler-Wolf, Julie Evens, 2009 |
| california fire history map: Status of the Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, 1996 |
| california fire history map: Introduction to Prescribed Fire in Southern Ecosystems Thomas A. Waldrop, Scott L. Goodrick, 2018-03-29 Prescribed burning is an important tool throughout Southern forests, grasslands, and croplands. The need to control fire became evident to allow forests to regenerate. This manual is intended to help resource managers to plan and execute prescribed burns in Southern forests and grasslands. A new appreciation and interest has developed in recent years for using prescribed fire in grasslands, especially hardwood forests, and on steep mountain slopes. Proper planning and execution of prescribed fires are necessary to reduce detrimental effects, such as the impacts on air and downstream water quality. Check out these related products: Trees at Work: Economic Accounting for Forest Ecosystem Services in the U.S. South can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/trees-work-economic-accounting-forest-ecosystem-services-us-south Soil Survey Manual 2017 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/soil-survey-manual-march-2017 Quantifying the Role of the National Forest System Lands in Providing Surface Drinking Water Supply for the Southern United States is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/quantifying-role-national-forest-system-lands-providing-surface-drinking-water-supply Fire Management Today print subscription is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/fire-management-today Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/wildland-fire-ecosystems-fire-and-nonnative-invasive-plants |
| california fire history map: President Trump's Tweets 2016 Anthony Michalisko, 2018-06 After defeating a large Republican field in the primaries, Candidate Trump set his campaign in high gear for the General Election. With a hostile media spewing fake news, Donald Trump effectively used Twitter to thrust himself into the White House. Inside you'll find the tweets that defeated Hillary Clinton. |
| california fire history map: The Big Burn Timothy Egan, 2009-10-19 National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER. |
| california fire history map: Young Men and Fire Norman MacLean, 2017-05-01 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: “The terrifying story of the worst disaster in the history of the US Forest Service’s elite Smokejumpers.” —Kirkus Reviews A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in this extraordinary book. Alongside Maclean’s now-canonical A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This edition of Maclean’s later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul. “A moving account of humanity, nature, and the perseverance of the human spirit.” —Library Journal “Haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal “Engrossing.” —Publishers Weekly |
| california fire history map: Cyndi's List Cyndi Howells, 2001 A two volume set which provides researchers with more than 70,000 links to every conceivable genealogical resource on the Internet. |
| california fire history map: I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived #20) Lauren Tarshis, 2020-09-01 California continues to be ravaged by devastating wildfires. Lauren Tarshis's heart-pounding story tells of two children who battle the terrifying flames and -- despite the destruction -- find hope in the ashes. The people of Northern California were used to living with the threat of wildfires. But nothing could have prepared them for the devastating 2018 fire season, the deadliest in 100 years and the most destructive in history.In the 20th I Survived book, readers join eleven-year-old Josh as he leaves his New Jersey home for the rural northern California town where his cousins live. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges that propelled him and his mother across the country, Josh struggles to adapt to a more rustic, down-to-earth lifestyle that couldn't be more different from the one he is used to.Josh and his cousin bond over tacos and reptiles and jokes, but on a trip into the nearby forest, they suddenly find themselves in the path of a fast-moving firestorm, a super-heated monster that will soon lay waste to millions of acres of wilderness and -- possibly -- their town. Josh needs to confront the family issues burning him up inside, but first he'll have to survive the flames blazing all around him. |
| california fire history map: Between Two Fires Stephen J. Pyne, 2015-10-15 From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America’s fire story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire’s history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In Between Two Fires, Pyne recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America’s founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more pluralistic strategy for fire’s restoration. The revolution succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen short of its goals. Today, the nation’s backcountry and increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It’s America’s story told through the nation’s flames. |
| california fire history map: Paradise Lost The Great California Fire Chronicles James W Lee, 2020-07-20 On October 8th, 2017 at about 10:30 pm, the winds outside my home were moving the large Redwood Trees back and forth, though no storm, or wind had been predicted. I went outside and saw several flashes of blue light pulse in the vortex winds forming above me.At 4:30 am, my neighbor was pounding on my door telling me that emergency evacuations were being conducted due to several fires on the ridges. Going outside I could see only orange skies to the North and East, but no flames and no trees ablaze.Thus began my journey into discovering and uncovering how and why 157 abnormal fires began in 9 different counties in Northern California. I toured some of the over 4,000 homes were destroyed to ash while trees adjacent were left untouched. I saw 3,000 pound cars flipped on their roofs. I saw a 100,000 sq. foot Kmart building, where the fire had to jump the six lane 101 freeway, cross a large parking lot and completely torch the inside, while the outside remained untouched.Thus began my journey into learning about what former Governor of California has deemed The New Abnormal for fires to occur in California over The next 10, 15, 20 years time. Never before have firemen seen such fire activity and they have no context for understand the advanced weaponry used on not only these fires, but fires that have been set ablaze in over 15 separate areas of California over the past 1 1/2 years.The deadliest of all California fires was the Camp Fire that occurred in Butte County on November 8th, 2018. This fire began with an explosion, again no weather related forecast, where winds were said to travel at 80 football fields per minute which means these fires traveled at a never before speed of 273 mile per hour.52,000 people were said to have safely evacuated Paradise, yet residents who were lucky to escape the fires, claim this is nowhere close to being true and many perished while fire departments stood down and military police locked down all of Paradise for a month, before allowing the victims that remained, to return to see if their homes still stood.There was no warning from public service officials. There were no winds the morning of the fire igntion, which has said to have been caused by 1) power poles falling, 2) bullet holes in transformers and recently, fire igniting embers that somehow entered into homes and turned them to ash.To a person I have interviewed said they received no help from any charitable organizations that has taken in millions of dollars donated to help the victims. They fled with the shirt on their backs, yet, just like in Santa Rosa after our fires, many become homeless or are sleeping in their cars with no one to turn to.This book is a result of some of my 80 You Tube videos I published while investigating the Paradise fires, as well as directly experiencing the 170 CA fires in October 2017. I also cover in this book the likely weaponry used to start the fires, the agenda behind the fires, and those who were directly benefit aka disaster capitalists. You can find my work also on You Tube at Aplanetruth3, WellHealed2 and websites; Tabublog.com, Avvi.info, Aplanetruth.info and Wellhealed.life. This book details like no other before, the new abnormal and the takeover of California's precious resources. |
| california fire history map: Fire in the Forest Robert W. Cermak, 2005-10 Contents: Calif. Climate, Vegetation & Forest Fires; Amer. Settlement & Forest Fire: 1848-1898; The Forest Reserves in Calif.: 1891-1905; The Forest Service Assumes Control of the Reserves: 1905-1910; Experimenting with Policy & Procedure; Controversy & Confusion; World War I & Postwar Changes; Building a Fire Control Tradition: 1920-1924; Responding to a Decade of Fire: 1925-1929; Fire Control Comes of Age: 1930-1935; New Plans & New Techniques: 1936-1941; The Challenge of World War II: 1942-1945; Transition to Peace: 1946-1949; Rebuilding a Fire Control Org.: 1950-1953; A New Age of Fire Control Begins: 1954-1955; Epilogue; Footnotes; & Bibliography. Tables, maps & charts. |
| california fire history map: Beyond Tranquillon Ridge Joseph N. Valencia, 2004 For too long, the details of this tragedy have been shrouded in a fog of secrecy. Beyond Tranquillon Ridge is a story that recounts the firefighting efforts during a frenzied 24- hour period known as the Honda Canyon Fire. It is a history of the strategies and tactics used and it includes many first-hand accounts of the conditions that firefighters and the military faced on the front lines-including the tragic deaths of their comrades. Joseph Valencia offers a brilliant look back; re-creating the sights and sounds of actual firefighting; descriptive overviews of the landscape of South Vandenberg, with rich profiles and command level decisions of the brave men who fought it. In the end, this one day in 1977 stands out as the pivotal time when wind and fire combined into a firestorm and where past compromises affected an outcome. |
| california fire history map: Annual Report - California Forest and Range Experiment Station California Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1939 |
| california fire history map: Conifers of California Ronald M. Lanner, 1999 |
PREHISTORIC AND RECENT FIRE OCCURRENCE IN CALIFORNIA
Recent Fire History Recent fire history in California was obtained from various USDA Forest Service (USFS) and California Department ofForestry and Fire Protection (CDF) documents.
Playing With Fire - sites.tufts.edu
Since California is currently seeing an increase in the severity of its wildfires, it is expected that the vulnerability map would show an increase in wildfire severity, when compared to the …
Fire History in the East Bay - East Bay Regional Park District
These fires have been mapped using the best available information, including boundaries described in newspaper articles, lookout tower records, and the CAL FIRE FRAP database. …
CAL FIRE Fire History, Sonoma County, California - Permit …
LNU Lightning Complex 2020 and Glass Fire 2020 data obtained from CAL August and September 2020, respectively. Map scale and reproduction methods limit precision in physical …
California Fire History Map - old.icapgen.org
California Fire History Map David Carle Fire in California's Ecosystems Neil G. Sugihara,2006-11-29 Focusing on California and issues specific to fire ecology
California Fire History Map - database.groundswellfund
california fire history map: Paradise Lizzie Johnson, 2021 The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire-the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century-and a riveting examination of …
Fire History of the Santa Monica Mountains1
Brown (1978) cit-ed Dana as reporting extensive fires in the coastal ranges of southern California in the 1830's. Burning by Indians and settlers often endanger-ed settlements as well as …
CHRONOLOGY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
CHRONOLOGY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES START DATE NAME COUNTY STRUCTURES LOST ACRES BURNED JANUARY 1/3/2001 Viejas San Diego 16 10,353 …
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE PUBLIC POLICY: MAPPING THE …
As California works to curb its worsening wildfire risk, the improvement and expansion of FHSZ maps would contribute to a safer and more resilient state. By using CAL FIRE’s FHSZ maps, …
History Of Wildland Fires On - NASA Technical Reports Server …
The fire history of the past 50 years for Vandenberg Air Force Base, California was determined using aerial photography, field investigation, and historical and current written records.
California Fire History Map (PDF) - old.icapgen.org
in California Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology including overviews of historical fires vegetation climate weather fire as a physical and ecological process and fire regimes and …
Fire History Database and Map Layer: Northwest Forest Plan …
Fire histories were compiled by examining sources cited in other studies, through database searches, and through personal communication with J.K. Agee and C.N. Skinner.
Lake County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Since 2015, Lake County has lost more than 1,800 homes to wildfire. Some estimates indicate more than 60 percent of Lake County has burned in the decade from 2011 to 2021. The …
Indicators of Climate Change in California - Wildfires
Maps showing areas burned in 1950 to 1999 (left) and in 2000-2021 (right). The colors on the maps correspond to decade burned, as presented on the bar graph showing the average …
California Fire History Map [PDF] - old.icapgen.org
History of Wildland Fires on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),2018-07-03 The fire history of the past 50 years for Vandenberg …
Wildfire: The Camp Fire in Paradise CS1 - ed
Firefighters from all over California and neighboring states came to help stop the fire. Large tanker aircraft were flown in to drop fire retardant ahead of the fire to slow or stop the fire’s progress.
Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California - UC Santa …
fire in California history. In this report, we put these recent events into broader historical perspective, using a newly developed dataset that catalogues wildfire damages dating back to …
California Fire History Map - old.icapgen.org
synthesis of knowledge on the science ecology and management of fire in California Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology including overviews of historical fires vegetation climate …
2025 LRA Fire Hazard Severity Zones - City of San Diego …
Answer: The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) sponsored map, known as "CPUC High Fire Threat District Map” (HFTD), includes similar factors as those in the FHSZ maps, …
California Fire History Map (2024) - old.icapgen.org
in California Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology including overviews of historical fires vegetation climate weather fire as a physical and ecological process and fire regimes and …
PREHISTORIC AND RECENT FIRE OCCURRENCE IN CALIFORNIA
Recent Fire History Recent fire history in California was obtained from various USDA Forest Service (USFS) and California Department ofForestry and Fire Protection (CDF) documents.
Playing With Fire - sites.tufts.edu
Since California is currently seeing an increase in the severity of its wildfires, it is expected that the vulnerability map would show an increase in wildfire severity, when compared to the …
Fire History in the East Bay - East Bay Regional Park District
These fires have been mapped using the best available information, including boundaries described in newspaper articles, lookout tower records, and the CAL FIRE FRAP database. …
CAL FIRE Fire History, Sonoma County, California - Permit …
LNU Lightning Complex 2020 and Glass Fire 2020 data obtained from CAL August and September 2020, respectively. Map scale and reproduction methods limit precision in physical …
California Fire History Map - old.icapgen.org
California Fire History Map David Carle Fire in California's Ecosystems Neil G. Sugihara,2006-11-29 Focusing on California and issues specific to fire ecology
California Fire History Map - database.groundswellfund
california fire history map: Paradise Lizzie Johnson, 2021 The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire-the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century-and a riveting examination of …
Fire History of the Santa Monica Mountains1
Brown (1978) cit-ed Dana as reporting extensive fires in the coastal ranges of southern California in the 1830's. Burning by Indians and settlers often endanger-ed settlements as well as …
CHRONOLOGY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
CHRONOLOGY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES START DATE NAME COUNTY STRUCTURES LOST ACRES BURNED JANUARY 1/3/2001 Viejas San Diego 16 10,353 …
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE PUBLIC POLICY: MAPPING THE …
As California works to curb its worsening wildfire risk, the improvement and expansion of FHSZ maps would contribute to a safer and more resilient state. By using CAL FIRE’s FHSZ maps, …
History Of Wildland Fires On - NASA Technical Reports …
The fire history of the past 50 years for Vandenberg Air Force Base, California was determined using aerial photography, field investigation, and historical and current written records.
California Fire History Map (PDF) - old.icapgen.org
in California Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology including overviews of historical fires vegetation climate weather fire as a physical and ecological process and fire regimes and …
Fire History Database and Map Layer: Northwest Forest Plan …
Fire histories were compiled by examining sources cited in other studies, through database searches, and through personal communication with J.K. Agee and C.N. Skinner.
Lake County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Since 2015, Lake County has lost more than 1,800 homes to wildfire. Some estimates indicate more than 60 percent of Lake County has burned in the decade from 2011 to 2021. The …
Indicators of Climate Change in California - Wildfires
Maps showing areas burned in 1950 to 1999 (left) and in 2000-2021 (right). The colors on the maps correspond to decade burned, as presented on the bar graph showing the average …
California Fire History Map [PDF] - old.icapgen.org
History of Wildland Fires on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),2018-07-03 The fire history of the past 50 years for Vandenberg …
Wildfire: The Camp Fire in Paradise CS1 - ed
Firefighters from all over California and neighboring states came to help stop the fire. Large tanker aircraft were flown in to drop fire retardant ahead of the fire to slow or stop the fire’s progress.
Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California - UC Santa …
fire in California history. In this report, we put these recent events into broader historical perspective, using a newly developed dataset that catalogues wildfire damages dating back to …
California Fire History Map - old.icapgen.org
synthesis of knowledge on the science ecology and management of fire in California Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology including overviews of historical fires vegetation climate …
2025 LRA Fire Hazard Severity Zones - City of San Diego …
Answer: The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) sponsored map, known as "CPUC High Fire Threat District Map” (HFTD), includes similar factors as those in the FHSZ maps, …
California Fire History Map (2024) - old.icapgen.org
in California Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology including overviews of historical fires vegetation climate weather fire as a physical and ecological process and fire regimes and …
