Both Little and Big Cottonwood canyons are wildly popular, nestled along the Wasatch Front and offering premier hiking ...

The high-risk wildland-urban interface map released Dec. 18 is a requirement from new state law House Bill 48. The law, and ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Close to 60,000 structures across Utah are considered at "high risk" for being impacted by wildfires, putting some homeowners on the path to pay new fees, according to a new state map ...

The new law also requires the state to assess property fees within the high-risk wildland urban interface boundary to help ...

The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands unveiled the state’s new High-Risk Wildland Urban Interface map, a key ...

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Soldiers assigned to the 14th Brigade Engineer Battalion, Rugged Team 5, gear up in their personal protective equipment before heading into their mop-up zone at the August Complex wildfire in ...

For people living in the “wildland-urban interface,” wildfire risk is the new normal, and the risk is increasing as more people move into places where cul-de-sac meets forest or sagebrush. Chris ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Wildland-Urban Interface Ordinance applies to areas with high fire hazard severity zones and one Fire Marshall says he’s most concerned with east Bakersfield. The ...

In December of 2017, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator requested the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) research new and emerging ...

Bozeman, Montana — Acela Truck Company recently announced that it has expanded its line of Monterraâ„¢ high-mobility response apparatus to include wildland and urban interface fire trucks. With ...