Playing with fire, it's *** new way to fight it. Fire management agencies are relying more on simulation programs to better understand fire behavior. Meteorologist Ophelia Young sits through *** ...
What happens when wildfires merge into one massive firestorm? Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and UC Irvine are ...
Multi-ignition wildfires are not overly common. But when individual fires do converge, the consequences can be catastrophic.
In 2020, California’s Creek Fire became so intense that it generated its own thunderstorm, a phenomenon called a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. For years, scientists struggled to replicate these explosive ...