Its purpose is to show how conditions such as wind speed and direction can affect a fire's spread and to show how firefighters use firelines and backfires to control a wildland fire.

In my career I've worked for urban fire departments as well as federal wildland fire agencies. I've managed and directed many fires in the wildland urban interface as well as public wildlands and ...

At least 25 people have died. The threat of fire is growing, especially in zones known as the wildland-urban interface, or WUI. That’s where unoccupied wildland and human developments meet and mingle.

Cal Fire and local agencies are investigating several recent fires in the region, including the Border 2 Fire that has burned ...

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban ...

And strong Santa Ana winds are about to make things worse, potentially erasing fire crews' progress in containing the fires. "Lots of times on a wildland fire assignment, you're either on the defense ...