Bringing you the new fire paradigm. Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE) are torchbearers for safe, ethical, ecological fire management.
Eugene, OR
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...Even with the relief that comes with being able to rest...Lord expressed how hard it was to be away from family...doing dangerous work, and wondering if he’d get back to those at home.
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"Roadless areas are some of the most wildfire-resilient landscapes in North America because they are the least degraded by industrial logging and road-building..."
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“Wildland fires are necessary and incredibly significant ecological processes. Roadless areas...offer opportunities to safely, economically, and ecologically manage fire across large areas without threatening human assets.”
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Protect roadless forests! Act now!
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“Snags are key ecological structures that help shelter and provide for the next forest. A lot of wildlife depend on that. In their analysis, [the USFS] saw nothing but black...but within a couple years, there were half a million new seedlings per hectare." columbiainsight.org/how-the-…
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A sample of a longer video we just published on The Lookout YouTube channel about a late-summer prescribed burn we attended a few weeks ago outside of Nevada City, in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains.
This burn was in a fairly developed rural neighborhood. Most of the unit was thinned and pile-burned this spring, but the center of the unit had thickets of cedar which had not been thinned.
The video walks thru how the burn got accomplished, safely, even in 'summer'. Prescribed fire is about conditions, not dates on the calendar.
This project was executed by a Nevada City contractor, First Rain Land Stewardship, for a private client.
View the full video on The-Lookout.org.
"It's not just smoke; there's dust and a lot of toxic chemicals, particularly when wildfires enter urban environments...They also have a lot of toxic substances in their tools and equipment that can enter through skin contact."
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Jesús Eduardo Olimpo Gutiérrez Toral, aka Lalo, passed away on Sept 9th from injuries sustained while fighting the Austin Fire.
Our hearts are with his family and crewmates. A life cut much too short. He will not be forgotten ❤️🩹
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Our fallen are never forgotten. Today, we pause to honor and remember Mark Urban, a Great Basin Smokejumper, who lost his life in a smokejumping accident near Prairie, Idaho, on September 27, 2013.
Mark served as a smokejumper for 11 years, and his positive impact on the Great Basin Smokejumper program continues to inspire firefighters today.
Mark is never forgotten. Each year in the spring, the Great Basin Smokejumpers honor Mark by dedicating practice jumps on “Yeti Ridge,” a nickname of his, followed by trail work on the Ridge to Rivers Urban Connection trail, dedicated in his memory.
Read more about Mark: firehero.org/fallen-firefigh…
ALT Smiling man with a beard wearing a yellow and sunglasses on his head against a plain background.
ALT A smokejumper descending with a red, white, and blue canopy over a grassy hill.
ALT A trail marker in foothills with trail tools laying on rocks.
"There is a huge gap between the safety risks and health hazards that wildland firefighters face, including risk of severe musculoskeletal damage and rare cancers, and the inadequate level of medical care they are provided..."
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More roads and human access will mean more human-caused wildfire starts...logging roads in backcountry areas are dangerous for attempting to stop wildfire.
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We are heartbroken by further devastating losses at the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park this past weekend.
You are not alone in this grief. Support is available to you. Explore resources at fusee.org/mental-health-reso… or call the crisis line at 988 at any time.
"Wildland firefighters deserve to do what we love without shortening our life expectancy or sacrificing the possibility of retiring in good health and creating a family... We deserve to feel as if our lives and livelihoods are not an expendable resource."
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...there has been a notable spike in burn injuries this year, a sign he attributes to “crews being pushed into aggressive direct attack in times when it is not effective”.
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“This is a political, social question that some are trying to use science to justify, but I don’t necessarily feel that the science is saying that we need more roads in these roadless areas.”
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“We’re just throwing good money after bad in these reactive, siege-like suppression spectacles, versus proactive preparation and treatments within communities.”
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The federal government repeatedly cites wildfire risk reduction as a reason to roll back the roadless rule. Based on States’ experience, he thinks that any mitigation will be undermined by the increased number of wildfires that will start.
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“Constructing new logging roads into roadless areas will increase human-caused wildfire ignitions by careless recreationists, criminal arsonists, or simple accidents,” -Carson States
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Oregon is one of seven states that use prison labor to fight wildfires. Prison rights advocates have long argued that such programs can be exploitative. While firefighting usually pays more than other prison jobs, incarcerated firefighters make...
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