What intervention units are there in Spain to respond to a wildfire emergency? Help us complete the information!
During a wildfire emergency in Spain, the so-called intervention units are deployed. These units are made up of personnel specialized in wildland fire management, affiliated with institutions or organizations, and they carry out their tasks in a coordinated manner, as we explain in our article on how wildfire emergencies are managed. We have now focused […]
EGIIF Ecuador Project: response, prevention and education in the face of forest fires
February 18, 2025 marked the beginning of the EGIIF Ecuador (Forest Fire Integral Management Team) project that will be developed over the next two months to improve the response and prevention capacity for forest fires, and promote a culture of conservation and sustainable management of natural resources in Ecuador. The Pau Costa Foundation will carry […]
FIRE-SCENE starts to enhance wildfire risk management and governance
The project FIRE-SCENE – ‘Advancing wildfire Civil Protection scenarios into risk planning and governance’ has started this week. FIRE-SCENE aims to develop novel procedures and tools to enhance the capacity to protect citizens from new wildfire risk scenarios promoted by the changing climate conditions. Funded by the European Union, the project is led by the […]
PyroLife consolidates the first European doctoral programme on Integrated Fire Management
The European project PyroLife, an Innovative Training Network, successfully concluded in December. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the European Horizon2020 programme, PyroLife has made significant strides in training the next generation of experts in Integrated Fire Management (IFM). PyroLife has pioneered in developing a training programme supporting 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) across […]
The ‘Foc i Biodiversitat’ project starts to conserve and enhance the resilience of the Alta Garrotxa Protected Natural Area
Today, the kick-off meeting of the ‘Foc i Biodiversitat‘ project took place in Beget (Camprodon), attended by the Director General of Environmental Policies and Natural Environment, Marc Vilahur; the Director of the Alta Garrotxa Consortium, Sara Sánchez; the Director of the Pau Costa Foundation, Jordi Vendrell, as well as the technicians who will monitor the […]
EduFire Toolkit: open educational resources to learn about wildfires in secondary education
The EduFire Toolkit project, funded by the European Union within the Erasmus+ programme, has successfully concluded this October. The aim of this project has been to provide educational resources for teachers and secondary school students, focusing on the understanding and management of wildfires in a context of lack of landscape management, which increases the risk […]
Advocating for enhancing landscape resilience with ResAlliance at the 8th Mediterranean Forest Week
As part of the consortium of the ResAlliance project, we participated in the 8th Mediterranean Forest Week (8th MFW) to foster dialogue on ways to build and enhance landscape resilience to drought and severe wildfires. During the event, which took place from the 4th to the 7th of November in Barcelona, ResAlliance led two activities […]
Pyrocumulus and Pyrocumulonimbus: the clouds of wildfires
As is well known, weather can increase the risk of wildfires and make it more difficult to extinguish them. But the relationship between fire and weather goes further: sometimes wildfires can generate their own meteorological phenomena, such as pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus. These are clouds created by the extreme heat of wildfires, which can trigger powerful […]
How is a wildfire emergency managed and who are the actors involved?
In the Mediterranean, wildfires are more frequent in the summer. High temperatures, heat waves and warm winds cause vegetation to dry out and burn easily, putting, in some cases, people and their properties in danger. That is why it is necessary that the burn teams are prepared in case of a wildfire emergency. But how […]
What relationship do extreme wildfires have with climate change?
The latest extreme wildfires in Portugal (2017), California (2018), Tenerife (2023) and Chile (2024), among others, with thousands of hectares burned, have taken place during long periods of drought and high temperatures. This may lead one to think that these fires have happened because of climate change. But is it true? What relationship do extreme […]
