The ongoing gusty winds, brutally hot temperatures and bone-dry fuels provide "a terrible mix of conditions for the firefighters," says Ken Frederick, a spokesman with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. He adds that it's also extremely hard, physical work, that takes its toll on
Date: Jul 01, 2013
Source: Google
Ford's New EV+ Feature Keeps Tabs on Driver Locations for EV-Only Mode
"We realized that harnessing data already available was the way we could achieve our goal of improving the entire hybrid vehicle driving experience," said Ken Frederick, HEV powertrain calibration engineer at Ford. "Once we had access to the data, we applied machine learning principles to pred
"We've had a lot of ground burn this year in spite of the fact that we've had fewer fires reported than average," says Ken Frederick, a spokesman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
"It's La Nia," says Ken Frederick, a NIFC spokesman, referring to the winter weather pattern that usually directs rain and snow to Northern states, especially in the west. "The southwest just didn't get precipitation over the winter."
Date: Jun 13, 2011
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Arizona wildfire threat grows, with no end in sight
000 people are fighting the wildfire, including crews from as far away as New York state. Ken Frederick of the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, said 70% of the nation's hot-shot fire teams are either in Arizona or central Alaska, where another fire is burning in an unpopulated area.