In honor of the 23rd anniversary of the Cherry Road fire and the loss of two DCFD firefighters, please watch the following video. Many firefighters have been injured or have died while trying to extinguish a basement fire or a fire on a level below them. Below-grade fires can present different challenges based on the potential ventilation or the building construction. During the past few years, field experience was collected and reviewed, and fire experiments were conducted as part of a collabor

What does a 35,000-acre grass fire look like from the air? This dramatic helicopter video captured today during a survey of the Cherry Road Fire shows the scale of fighting large wildfires in eastern Oregon. Vast blackness mixes with visible red retardant lines where air tankers dropped their loads to protect roads or defensible canyon walls. The charring of the landscape is indiscriminate, whether it is flat rangeland, rolling hills or steep river canyons. As previously reported, the fire just