If I could have only four tools to conduct prescribed burns or fight wildfires, they would be matches, a drip torch, an accurate weather forecast and a power sprayer with a water tank transported by a ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Firefighters across Reno County, along with the Kansas Forest Service, participated in drip torch training on Saturday. Reno County Emergency Management says firefighters from ...

When Raymond Huesties first became a firefighter for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Eastern Oregon, he didn’t really have much of a choice. “My boss gave me a hard hat ...

Sweat dripped down my spine as I hefted a heavy drip torch with gloved hands. Everything was hot — the sun filtering through the ponderosa pines, the fire at my feet, the long-sleeved shirt and long ...

Nick Aschenwald, with the Montana DNRC, uses a drip torch to ignite bunch grass during a prescribed burn at Lone Pine State Park in Kalispell on Thursday, April 7. Held in conjunction with Montana ...

On a warm, dry day last week, prescribed burn coordinator Zachary O’Donnell ignited his drip torch and passed it to the landowner. They stood on the edge of a forest, somewhere between Marion and Old ...