Air Attack magazine: Rapid initial attack: The wave of the future?

By Michael Archer

Despite a relatively quiet wildfire season in 2019, increasingly ferocious wildfires are bound to occur again as in years past. Although initial attack on wildfires has been proven to work time and again, helping U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and state agencies limit the percentage of wildfires that burn out of control, is something more needed?

Could there be an approach that would do more to snuff wildland blazes faster, limit them to fewer acres, and better cope with the problem of overgrown forests that lead to explosive blazes? One man thinks there is.

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