Greece's 2023 forest fire season, detailed by Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Emmanouela Zevgoli, Konstantinos Kaoukis, and Miltiadis Athanasiou, saw over 140,000 hectares engulfed and over 20 lives lost. A sobering analysis of critical fire management challenges. iawfonline.org/article/overvi…

Climate change fuels severe forest fires! Cyprus battles rising risks with a robust three-pillar approach: Prevention, Preparedness, and Suppression. Petros Petrou and Kostakis Papageorgiou touch on the challenges of prolonged heatwaves and limited rain. iawfonline.org/article/overvi…

Catalonia faces changing fire landscapes. Marc Castellnou and Edgar Nebo explore the fire-generation concept addresses evolving challenges, including landscape shifts and infrastructure impacts, and strategies including prescribed burning. iawfonline.org/article/overvi…

Canada's 2023 wildfire season broke records with over 17 million hectares burned, shattering the previous record set in 1989. Heather Simpson dives into the challenges that hit Alberta, Quebec, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories. iawfonline.org/article/overvi…

Don't miss out on the Partner Webinar Series by IAWF, the Pau Costa Foundation, and Association for Fire Ecology. Join us on May 30 with with Prof. Fantina Tedim from the University of Porto. Register here: fireecology.org/partner-webina…

Bequi Livingston delves into stress management for wildland fire personnel during downtime. Applying LCES principles—Lookouts, Communications, Escape Routes, Safety Zones—she addresses the challenges of the off-season, particularly during holidays. iawfonline.org/article/stress…

ICYMI: The latest issue of Wildfire Magazine is out now! Click here to access the digital issue. iawfonline.org/wp-content/upl…

What a wonderful IAWF #FBF2024 week in Boise, Tralee and Canberra! Amazing work by the organization committees, moderators and volunteers, under Mikel Robinson , Kelly Martin, Ciaran Nugent, Trevor Howard, David Shew and many others. Till next time!!!

Scott Purdy on Lessons about Lahaina Fire, Robert Bryce #Tralee on Operational Fire modeling in Canada during 2023 and myself in validation of Initial Attack Index finalized the strong Technosylva team presentations in IAWF #FBF2024

Starting our final day in Boise with a keynote presentation from Dr.Mark Finney, lighting talks, networking and breakout sessions.
#FBF2024

A full room in Tralee, Ireland, at #FBF2024 to listen to Lindon Promto Lindon Pronto analyze the summer 2022 wildland fires in Europe.

The final round of presentations this morning at the 7th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference in Tralee.
Insightful speakers, dozens of questions!
#FBF2024

Wrapping up three brilliant days of learning, research and networking at #fbf2024 in #canberra / #ngunnawalcountry .

Delegates leave with new ideas, challenges and collaborators - good bye from Down Under and over to #traleeand #boise !

#IAWF #wildfire #wildlandfire #fbf2024

#fbf2024 #Canberra winning posters! Best: Extending the Overall Fuel Hazard Guide - B Pickering, Uni Melb. Best Student: Fire Rescue Missions Utilize Air Drone Carriers, A Cheng, Hong Kong Uni. People’s Choice: Healing Community Through Collab. Risk Reduction, A Govanstone CFA

Day 3 of #fbf2024 in #canberra / #ngunnawalcountry with Dr @DanPronk, former medical doctor within special forces and expert in building resilience in high stress, high consequence roles. Resilience is critically important in the #wildfire sector to ensure health and safety #IAWF

Fabulous field trip Wednesday in Tralee, Ireland, planned and organized by host Ciaran Nugent, who educated us delegates to the 2024 Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, about farming, the landscape, land management, fire suppression, and global collaboration.
#FBF2024

SPONSORED POST: Visit the NASA booth at the IAWF Fires and Fuels Behavior conference in Boise, ID, to learn how NASA supports fire management agencies around the world with actionable and trusted Earth science, data and technology. go.nasa.gov/firesense

#IAWF is proud to acknowledge Alen Slijepcevic AFSM from Country Fire Authority (CFA) with the #IAWF Distinguished Service Award 2024.

Presented at #FBF24 in #canberra , this award recognises Alen's outstanding contribution to furthering the goals of the Association.

Ending Day of #FBF2024 with #IAWF Board Member and #Canberra Program Chair, Dr Sarah Harris about how the research and knowledge being shared here is part of a global #wildlandfire picture. Good night, #ngunnawalcountry - good morning, #Tralee ! #fbf2024

Good morning! Some thoughts from past IAWF board member Tim Brown on #FBF2024 and why we’re all participating in one conference on three continents. 🌏🌍🌎