COURTESY U.S. ARMY Bryson Kamakura, firefighter, Army Wildland Fire, ignites invasive Guinea grass with a drip torch during the Army’s 2016 prescribed burn. The firefighters burn invasive guinea grass ...

backfire—A fire set along the inner edge of a fireline to consume the fuel in the path of a wildfire and/or change the direction of force of the fire's convection column. brush fire—A fire ...

To stop the fire, the user can create a fireline with the tool that looks like a pick and widen the fireline by creating a backfire with the drip torch. Weather is the most variable of the ...

A US Forest Service fire professional uses a drip torch to light a low-severity prescribed burn to reduce the fuel load in a mixed-conifer forest in the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area in ...

Cal Fire’s prescribed burn Monday will be focusing ... Per the Forest Service, this is often done using a drip torch in tandem with techniques adapted to the terrain to keep the flames in ...

Batusich said, while the blow torch is one of the newer techniques the fire department has seen fires ... leave the faucet open and let the water drip. Listen to WBBM Newsradio now on Audacy!

Mochi, a 3-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, was introduced as Omaha Fire Department's new facility support dog in 2024. A welding torch operating too close to combustible materials caused a ...