Worries Mount Over Winter Wildfire Season Not Soon to End

  Friday, January 24th, 2014 Source: Insurance Journal

A winter wildfire season offers some unique challenges for firefighters like Mike Lopez. Lopez is president of CDF Firefighters, which represents the employees of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire as it’s best known. Lopez has been a firefighter with Cal Fire for 24 years, and he said that while a winter fire season is rare though not unheard of, it has firefighters on high alert. The dry weather and amount of unburned fuel is particularly worrisome, he said. “Last year at this time there were no fires basically from what I would consider the end of fire season, which is typically right around the first of November until we get into the spring mode again, which is around April-May,” Lopez said. “This year for Cal Fire there’s been 289 fires with 721 acres burned.”

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