Firefighter Charles VeaVea pours flames from a drip torch near the Kings River during a prescribed fire in Kings Canyon National Park on June 11, 2019. (Brian Melley / Associated Press ...

If the fire got close enough, firefighters planned to climb the hill and set the sagebrush and grasses ablaze with drip torches to rob the fire of fuel, creating a buffer between the blaze ...

A back burn was issued and drip torches from Pawhuska were used. Multiple agencies, including Sperry Fire, Skiatook Fire, Tulsa Fire, and Rock fire, all responded. Firefighters said between 130 to ...

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Using drip torches, members of the New Jersey-based Star Tree Wildfire Protection LLC set fire to the edges of a squarish field partly bounded by Murray and Boughton Hill roads. Soon ...

And then in the back we have about 250 gallons of water,” Wade said. They've also got leaf blowers, rakes and drip torches for back burning. And firefighters are always prepared to keep ...

“I do 70 burns a year, easy; this year I’ve done 75 since January, and had more than 250 landowners with a drip torch in their hand.” Lori Greene’s land east of Charlotte has for 30 years ...

“I do 70 burns a year, easy; this year I’ve done 75 since January, and had more than 250 landowners with a drip torch in their hand.” Lori Greene’s land east of Charlotte has for 30 years ...

Even ignition is done differently. For a ceremony, firesticks will be used, with further lighting done using drip torches. In remote areas, fires are lit from helicopters, making it possible to ...