Wildfire Defense; Science, Wisdom and Common Sense
Conversations with experts about disaster preparation.
Information and Common Sense
Episodes
18 episodes
Ray Ford Discusses Wildfire
Ray Ford talks about the recent wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena and their ramifications
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1:15:04
Chief David Neels Montecito Fire Department
Chief David Neels of Montecito Fire Department discusses his history in the fire service and directions Montecito is taking now and in the future with wildland fire
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1:01:31
Mark Von Tillow, Wildland Fire Specialist, Santa Barbara City Fire Department
Mark Von Tillow, veteran fire fighter with more than three decades with the USFS discusses his experience and the changes to wildland fire behavior and suppression he is already seeing and anticipating.
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50:58
John Ahlman Remembers
Santa Barbara City Fire Department Battalion Chief John Ahlman Retired, recalls more than four decades service with three different fire departments
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1:09:08
Fire in the Built Environment
Santa Barbara County Retired Fire Marshall Rob Hazard talks about Fire on the Urban side of the WUI
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1:35:08
Some differences between Northern conifer forest fires and wildland fire in the chaparral
Dr. D'Antonio,professor and researcher at UC Santa Barbara returns to drill down into the difference between plant communities and their response to wild land fire and how we best protect life and environment within them.
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55:44
Today scientists consider a broader spectrum of reasons wildfire spreads in different environments
Max A. Moritz, Ph.D. Wildfire Specialist at U.C. Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources and Adjunct Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science joins us to discuss how, many factors are responsible for the way wil...
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1:01:45
Keeping it together, The great benefits of the lncident Command System
Nic Elmquist is the Wildland Fire Specialist at the Montecito Fire District. Nic is a member of an Incident Management Team and travels extensively around the West as he is assigned to different campaign fires. In this edition of Survivi...
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1:00:10
Safely Sharing the Chaparral
In this episode of Surviving Disaster we are joined by Carla D'Antonio PHD, Professor of Ecology in Environmental Studies at UCSB. We are broadly discussing the controlled impacts of fire on the chaparral and the people who choose to shar...
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1:17:05
Rob Hazard Retired Fire Marshall SB County Fire Department
Ted and Rob discuss wildfire behavior, defensible space zones, home hardening
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1:20:39
Bendy White Remembers: Decades of fire history in Santa Barbara County
Bendy White, a well known and respected member of the community in Santa Barbara talks with us about his family's relationship with fire and chaparral since their purchase of some acreage above Mountain Drive in the 20'sHe talks about the f...
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1:00:39
Gary Warkentin CAO Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department
Gary Warkentin Chief Administrative Officer for Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department joins us for a broad discussion of his history, work, direction and aspiration in his position
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1:01:41
Ray Ford Remembers and Rhapsodizes
Ray Ford, teacher, back country expert, author, photographer and journalist shares his life through the 70s forward
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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Chief Rob Hazard recently retired Fire Marshal Santa Barbara County Fire Department
Recently Retired Fire Marshall Santa Barbara County Fire Department Chief Rob Hazard talks with us about his more than 35 years in the fire service with emphasis in this episode on wild fire evacuation by automobile.
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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