Murphy Woodhouse

Well, now there's an effort to improve the imagery and data available to them.

Murphy Woodhouse reports for the Mountain West News Bureau.

Satellites like NOAA and NASA's GOES constellation have been an important fire science tool for years.

Over the summer, the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance launched the first three satellites of its Firesat program.

responders, that sort of thing, globally.

Fire scientists and modelers will also enjoy free access.

In Boise, I'm the Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse.

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Researchers and officials often turn to satellites to better understand and manage wildfires.

The Mountain West Newsboro's Murphy Woodhouse reports on an effort to improve the imagery and data available to them.

Satellites like NOAA and NASA's GOES constellation have been an important fire science tool for years.

Over the summer, the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance launched the first three satellites of its Firesat program.

responders, that sort of thing globally.

Fire scientists and modelers will also enjoy free access.

In Boise, I'm the Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse.

Surplus lines are a lightly regulated and relatively obscure corner of the insurance market, but they're becoming more important as wildfires and other climate change-driven disasters destabilize insurance markets in the West.

Researchers and officials often turn to satellites to better understand and manage wildfire.

Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse reports on an effort to improve the imagery and data that's available to them.

Satellites like NOAA and NASA's GOES constellation have been an important fire science tool for years.

Over the summer, the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance launched the first three satellites of its FireSat program.

We are committed to making the data freely available to fire response organizations, first responders, that sort of thing globally.

Fire scientists and modelers will also enjoy free access.

In Boise, I'm the Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse.

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In statewide news, the former head of the U.S. Forest Service is raising policy concerns in the wake of a season where several firefighters died, including ones from Colorado.

Murphy Woodhouse reports for the Mountain West News Bureau.

In late June, a fast-moving blaze on the Colorado-Utah border took the lives of four firefighters.

They perished in what's called an entrapment when firefighters are caught by flames, as did several others this season.

Her former agency says that aggressive initial attack is an effective policy.

and that firefighting is inherently risky, but that its, quote, suppression posture never compromises field safety standards.

In Boise, I'm the Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse.

A pediatrician at Children's Hospital Colorado says doctors are seeing a lot of flu cases early this season.

A former U.S. Forest Service chief is raising fire policy concerns in the wake of a number of firefighter deaths this season.

Our Mountain West News Barrel's Murphy Woodhouse also has her former agency's response.

In late June, a fast-moving blaze on the Colorado-Utah border took the lives of four firefighters.

They perished in what's called an entrapment when firefighters are caught by flames, as did several others this season.

Her former agency says that aggressive initial attack is an effective policy.

and that firefighting is inherently risky, but that its, quote, suppression posture never compromises field safety standards.

In Boise, I'm the Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse.

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While land firefighters face serious long-term health risks, the Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse reports that federal lawmakers are working to address them.

The bill, known as the Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety Act, was recently introduced in both chambers of the U.S. Congress and enjoys bipartisan support.

It would establish a pilot program to aid the development of a wildland respirator, allow for paid time to decontaminate fire gear, and improve the workers' compensation process for firefighters who fall ill. Jesse Hamner is a squad boss on a Utah-based federal wildfire crew who has been publicly advocating for the reform measure.

It's great that this is coming into the forefront, but why is it coming into the forefront? The problems are so severe that we can't ignore them anymore.

Aside from the deadly immediate fire line dangers that have been on tragic display this season, research is starting to show that wildland firefighters face heightened risk of serious diseases like lung cancer.

In Boise, I'm Murphy Woodhouse with the Mountain West News

Bureau.

factors, wildfires are getting faster and more severe.

As the Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse reports, that could have big consequences for forested ecosystems.

The faster a fire burns, the more severe its ecological impacts.

That's one of the findings of a new paper in the journal Science Advances.

We need to get a lot better at having fire.

And not just get better at putting them out.

That is Murphy Woodhouse reporting.

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