While I'm Posting Like Crazy ...

This is what happens when I forget to read my Google News Alerts for a few days. Three more stories of fire-related interest:

We have the first really major fire of what looks to be a bad fire season in the western US.

An interesting story about local fire planning bringing landowners' values in.

And in an article written with a clear slant, it seems a popular fire retardant (though not used on wildfires so far as I know) could be this generation's PCBs.