"It would be unthinkable for urban firefighters — those American icons who loom large in the public imagination — to enter a burning building without wearing a mask. But across the country, tens of thousands of people who fight wildfires spend weeks working in toxic smoke and ash wearing only a cloth bandanna, or nothing at all."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/us/wildfire-firefighters-masks-smoke.html

#PublicHealth #work #labor #OccHealth #masks #firefighting #climate #environment #wildfires #safety #cancer #prevention #longread

the July-August 2025 newsletter from the California Fire Science Consortium is out

#firefighters #firefighting #wildland_fire #fireScience

https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=934b7746792f1dee6f60ea043&id=684bb18b07

Fires continue to rage in Spain, overwhelming authorities.

Wildfires continued to rage across Spain on Wednesday, leaving thousands of hectares burned.

After surrounding and controlling several blazes, the main focus was in the north-west of the country, specifically in the triangle formed by Ourense, León, and Zamora.

The blazes have now claimed three lives

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250814-fires-continue-to-rage-in-spain-overwhelming-authorities?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Spain #Wildfires #Firefighting #Ourense #Leon #Zamora