Sentence examples for firefighting policy from inspiring English sources

The intensity of the fires, which burned to unsurvivable temperatures in Victoria's mountain ash forests, also forced a drastic change in national firefighting policy.

The results could affect U.S. federal firefighting policy, says Department of the Interior biogeographer Peter Teensma.

The chair of the inquiry will have to consider firefighting policy and equipment, as well as the personal bravery of staff who put their lives on the line to run into an unprecedented fire.

Tom Harbour, the Forest Service's fire and aviation director, said officials have yet to determine firefighting policy changes in response to shortcomings during the Station fire, including whether to beef up the number of nighttime firefighting aircraft and flight crews at its disposal.

Failed firefighting policies from the past century are also contributing to the explosion of wildfires today.

Our firefighting policies may have more direct and immediate repercussions than our other environmental choices do, though.

The fire immediately evoked memories of the Cerro Grande fire in 2000, which devastated the town of Los Alamos and changed firefighting policies and strategies all across the West.

Through interventions driven less by fear and more by data and science, it would be possible to get forests closer to the state they were in a century ago, before firefighting policies began to turn them into tinderboxes.

Five of the six governors who met with the cabinet secretaries are Republicans, including several, like Gov. Marc Racicot of Montana, who have been highly critical of the administration's firefighting policies.

Nature's script has been disrupted by a series of unusually intense, unusually large fires — a product of many factors that include government firefighting policies, climate change and bad luck.

But until people grasp or act on what Cohen has demonstrated — that homeowners would not need to rely on firefighters as much as they do if their houses were better built and maintained and the properties around them were prepared to withstand fire — changes to forest management and firefighting policies are unlikely to significantly improve matters.