United Firefighters of Los Angeles City strongly oppose the termination of @LAFD Fire Chief Crowley. Chief Crowley is a strong leader who has the respect of our firefighters and wasn’t afraid to tell the truth. She’s being made a scapegoat from a devastating fire without the

It was so much fun talking with @DesignsafeR last week about our wildfire research. Thank you for the invitation to chat about wildfires. @EngineeringOSU

This is a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team: @OregonState (Chris Dunn, Andy McEvoy), @zylient1, Dave Calkin (US Forest Service), Sheryl Drinkwater, four @EngineeringOSU students: Amy Metz, Nicolas Coello, Wyatt Garrett, Ines Pitari. In collaboration with Negar Elhami Khorasani

We are in LA collecting data to understand the fundamental mechanisms of fire propagation from the wildland into the community & collecting data on characteristics of survived home clusters within heavily damaged areas for both Palisades & Eaton Fires. Team members in comment.

New paper alert! The results of fire testing glulam beam-to-column connections is finally out. This was a wonderful collaboration with Sujit Bhandari and Arijit Sinha at the NRC Canada. The research was funded by USDA ARS. Check it out:

Timely throwback to the work we did in fall 2023 with @bpwham and @FSRI_org. We found negative pressure during wildfires due to large demands on the water system can cause significant amounts of ash and soot to be sucked into water distribution systems. Stay tuned for the paper!

One home in Pacific Palisades, CA survived the Palisades Fire, but has since split in half from a landslide. #PalisadesFire #California

Can homes be 100% fireproof? It depends on what you mean by fireproof and what the fire demand is on the structure! I spoke with AirTalk answering listener questions about fire safe building construction practices. @EngineeringOSU https://t.co/QXBlYmtjuZ

Question: As of today, what water systems have issued drinking water use warnings in the #LosAngelesFire area? Answer: Many are small, a few are large. Some are public entities; some are private companies. Some have only portions of their systems impacted, others have their

Sky5 was overhead of two #FireTornados along the northern flank of the #PalisadesFire.

Lessons learned from Marshall Fire could help Los Angeles | https://t.co/bk6ZPv8ZaV

Wind-driven fires such as those that we saw this week around LA overwhelm fire suppression capabilities all the time. This occurred during many previous fires, including throughout the state of Oregon in 2020, causing depressurization of the water systems.

Sharing this information from the City of Pasadena... “DO NOT DRINK YOUR WATER IN THE EVACUATED AREAS” Eaton Fire Evacuated Areas of Pasadena Water and Power water system is potentially impacted with debris and elevated turbidity. https://t.co/LZD0zg0zWg

Unsafe drinking water alerts coming out of areas impacted by the LA fires. Reports of lack of access to water from firefighters could mean system depressurization sucking in ash and soot from the fire itself to the water system.

The newly sparked #KennethFire is exploding in size in West Hills, LA County, and is quickly approaching homes. The fire is moving extremely fast and a new potential spot fire just started across Highway 101. Santa Ana winds are expected to increase up to 50 mph tonight.

NEW: Drone footage shows the devastating aftermath of the LA fires which have destroyed thousands of homes. At this time, five people are deceased, over 2,000 structures have burned down and at least 130,000 residents are under evacuation order. Unfortunately, forecasters warn

Loss of access to water occurs after many fires because the fire is overloading fire suppression capabilities and causing depressurization of the system. This will result in water contamination post-fire. https://t.co/2PJZfYYJoY

It was such an honor to collaborate with water districts throughout OR on a summary of the water infrastructure impacts and recovery from the 2020 Labor Day fires (@MedfordWater, @EWEButility, and Detroit). Check it out in @awwa:

Are you passionate about mass timber and interested in working in a highly collaborative environment? The TallWood Design Institute is searching for a new outreach coordinator:

Do you have research on Design and Performance of Mass Timber Structural Systems? Think about submitting to the Engineering Structures special issue! This includes topics in the seismic, gravity, and fire performance of mass timber systems!