NASA scientists have been on the ground with the Fort Stewart forestry team, studying different aspects of prescribed ...

COURTESY U.S. ARMY Bryson Kamakura, firefighter, Army Wildland Fire, ignites invasive Guinea grass with a drip torch during the Army’s 2016 prescribed burn. The firefighters burn invasive guinea grass ...

(Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel) Cal Fire’s David Martinez and Rafael Barrientos use drip torches Tuesday to ignite burn piles. (Shmuel Thaler -- Santa Cruz Sentinel) Passing motorists and ...

To stop the fire, the user can create a fireline with the tool that looks like a pick and widen the fireline by creating a backfire with the drip torch. Weather is the most variable of the ...

A US Forest Service fire professional uses a drip torch to light a low-severity prescribed burn to reduce the fuel load in a mixed-conifer forest in the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area in ...