At this point, wildland/WUI conflagrations are nothing new to the U.S. landscape, so the fact that these fires are posing a larger risk to lives and property should come as no surprise. Fortunately, if your department is just starting to develop comprehensive WUI response plans, it can benefit from years of lessons learned, as well as firefighting advances that have come about due to ever-improving technology and sweat equity. In this article, I'll discuss some of the best practices for WUI firefighting that fire departments have developed to respond to the ever-growing and changing WUI fire problem.
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