3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (394+ words) Europe’s largest aerial firefighting operator Avincis will get five of the newly modified 214ST helicopters from Australia’s McDermott Aviation. At the tail end of a demanding European wildfire season, Avincis has signed a Letter of Intention for five of the McDermott…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (339+ words) After a brief respite for parts of Europe, extreme and very extreme wildfire conditions are forecast across most of southern, central and eastern Europe. The main areas of wildfire risk are in Spanish Iberia, France, the Alps, northern Italy, western…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (298+ words) The full program for the 2026 UK Wildfire Conference is now available with two days of speakers, workshops, exhibitors and a site visit to an area hit by recent wildfires. This biennial conference at Headingly Stadium in Leeds on 10 and 11 November…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (414+ words) While many studies have established that fuel treatments are an effective wildfire mitigation tool, the gap in our understanding has been how a range of different treatments work together over many years across large areas to produce a desired outcome....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (251+ words) A wildfire has burned over half of a historic nature preserve in Belgium near the country’s border with Germany, triggering explosions and evacuations in multiple nearby villages. The wildfire, which started on Aug. 13 and was 0% contained as of Tuesday afternoon,…...