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Wildfire Resilience Funding, Native Seed Supply from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda

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Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:31:15 +0000

Athens, Georgia — Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget Joan Mooney was in Georgia today to highlight how President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is supporting wildland fire management. During a visit to the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia, Principal Deputy Assistant … [continued]

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$34 Million for Fire Weather Research Through Investing in America Agenda

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Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:01:09 +0000

Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced the award of more than $34 million to reduce the risk to … [continued]

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Poor Air Quality Isn’t The Only Way Wildfires Affect Cities

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Credit to Author: World Resources Institute| Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:31:23 +0000

Thousands of people in Quebec, Canada evacuated their homes this month due to raging wildfires. More than 400 miles away, New York City experienced its worst air quality in history, and briefly had the worst air quality of any city in the world. And New York wasn’t alone: As of June 7, 2023, more than […]

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4 Months into “Danger Season,” Here’s Our Extreme Heat, Flood, & Extreme Fire Tally

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Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:11:30 +0000

Danger season in the United States is the time of year between roughly May and October when a number of climate-related hazards, including heatwaves, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes, tend to occur — at times simultaneously or back-to-back. Climate change is making many of these events more frequent, intense, and/or longer-lasting, and as a result, more […]

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Gastown fire: Five hospitalized, dozens left homeless after blaze tears through Vancouver rooming house

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Credit to Author: Stephanie Ip| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 01:46:40 +0000

“First thing I did was grab my animals and get out of the building. I yelled, ‘fire’ because I realized the fire alarms weren’t going off. I’m banging on doors as I’m leaving the building just as I get to the front door, the alarm just went off.”

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