Climate change has played a major role in Europe, the world's fastest-warming continent, where an area the size of Cyprus has been lost to wildfires this year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/09/05/climate-change/europe-wildfires-lost-area-size/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #europe #wildfires #forests
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Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/firefighters-question-leaders-role-in-ice-raid-near-bear-gulch-fire/
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Speakers include:
- Betsy Connolly, community member, Zone Zero - High or Very High Fire Severity Zone - Conejo Valley
- Steve Hawks, senior director of wildfire, Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety
- J. Lopez, board member, state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection
- Joe Morelli, fire marshal, Ventura County Fire Department
- Stephen Watson, executive director, Ventura Regional Fire Safe Council
RSVP to:
supervisorgorell@ventura.org
Location:
Ventura County Fire Headquarters
2400 Conejo Spectrum St.
Newbury Park, CA
Date/time:
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm
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Town hall on Zone 0 fire regulations in California.
"The state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection is developing new rules for Zone 0, the first five feet around your home. The Town Hall will offer an opportunity to learn more about the regulations and how to provide input. "
Town hall on Zone 0 fire regulations in California.
"The state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection is developing new rules for Zone 0, the first five feet around your home. The Town Hall will offer an opportunity to learn more about the regulations and how to provide input. "
Speakers include:
- Betsy Connolly, community member, Zone Zero - High or Very High Fire Severity Zone - Conejo Valley
- Steve Hawks, senior director of wildfire, Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety
- J. Lopez, board member, state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection
- Joe Morelli, fire marshal, Ventura County Fire Department
- Stephen Watson, executive director, Ventura Regional Fire Safe Council
RSVP to:
supervisorgorell@ventura.org
Location:
Ventura County Fire Headquarters
2400 Conejo Spectrum St.
Newbury Park, CA
Date/time:
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm
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Ventura County Supervisor Jeff Gorell, Ventura County Fire Department, Ventura Regional Fire Safe Council, CAL FIRE, and Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety - IBHS invite you to a Town Hall Wednesday Sept. 17 from 5:30 pm-7:30 pm on California’s draft Zone 0 fire regulations.
The state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection is developing new rules for Zone 0, the first five feet around your home. The Town Hall will offer an opportunity to learn more about the regulations and how to provide input. (1/2)
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Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/firefighters-question-leaders-role-in-ice-raid-near-bear-gulch-fire/
"...Since the incident became public, the wildfire world has been abuzz with anger at that team — California Interagency Incident Management Team 7. Made up of federal, state and local fire professionals, the team was assigned to oversee the response to the Bear Gulch Fire, which has burned 9,000 acres in and around Olympic National Park in Washington state. .."
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Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/firefighters-question-leaders-role-in-ice-raid-near-bear-gulch-fire/
Yogthos
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Out-of-control wildfire in Nova Scotia has destroyed homes, forced 1000+ to evacuate and 'could burn for another month'
#Canada#CDNPoli#NoPipelines#CliamteCrisis#GlobalBoiling#NovaScotia#Wildfires
Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.
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ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited until it was too late.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ipaws-emergency-alerts-local-official-failures?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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ICE hitting firefighting crews 👀
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
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Federal agents arrest firefighters working on #Washington wildfire https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/#Immigration#Wildfires
ICE hitting firefighting crews 👀
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on #Washington wildfire https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/#Immigration#Wildfires
Out-of-control wildfire in Nova Scotia has destroyed homes, forced 1000+ to evacuate and 'could burn for another month'
#Canada#CDNPoli#NoPipelines#CliamteCrisis#GlobalBoiling#NovaScotia#Wildfires
beka valentine
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Hey are we still spraying glyphosate out of aeroplanes in BC to prevent the growth of fire-retardant trees like aspen bc the forestry industry doesn't like them using up space they want commercially valuable conifers to grow in following forest fires?
Yes. Yes we are. #glyphosate #bcpoli #wildfires
https://www.earth.com/news/most-widely-used-herbicide-glyphosate-linked-to-leukemia-and-tumors/
Hey are we still spraying glyphosate out of aeroplanes in BC to prevent the growth of fire-retardant trees like aspen bc the forestry industry doesn't like them using up space they want commercially valuable conifers to grow in following forest fires?
Yes. Yes we are. #glyphosate #bcpoli #wildfires
https://www.earth.com/news/most-widely-used-herbicide-glyphosate-linked-to-leukemia-and-tumors/
Spain is battling over 20 wildfires posing a direct threat to local communities heat waves and drought blamed on climate change fuel forest fires in the country and its neighbor, Portugal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/world/wildfires-spain-record-area-burnt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #spain #portugal #wildfires #climatechange
Spain has deployed an additional 500 troops from its military emergency unit to support firefighting operations after scorching heat hampered efforts to contain 20 major wildfires across the country on Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/world/spain-wildfires-heat-troops/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #spain #wildfires #climatechange #heatwaves