2020 Fire Season: Grim, Smoky, Flexible

10/07/20 • 41 min

How would you sum up the 2020 fire season in just one word? Tim Brown, Royce Fontenot, and Megan Friggens share their impressions of the current fire season and discuss their work with pre-fire preparedness, active fire management, and post-fire recovery. They close with sharing some additional thoughts on fire management and response. It might surprise you how much science goes into firefighting!
Online resources mentioned during the interview:
After Fire Toolkit https://postfiresw.info/
FireCLIME Vulnerability Assessment Tool https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/hubs/southwest/topic/fireclime-vulnerability-assessment-tool

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10/07/20 • 41 min

Come Rain or Shine - 2020 Fire Season: Grim, Smoky, Flexible

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2020 Fire Season: Grim, Smoky, Flexible

Emile Elias: [00:00:00] Welcome to come rain or shine podcast of the USDA Southwest Climate Hub

Sarah Leroy: [00:00:06] and the Department of Interior Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center or Southwest CASC. I'm Sarah Leroy, science communications coordinator for the Southwest CASC

Emile Elias: [00:00:17] and I'm Emile Elias, director of the USDA Southwest Clima

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