Southern Luzerne County Wildland Crew

04/11/2023

12/21/2021

In preparation of the S-130 Field Day in March 2022, now is the time to complete the online training and prerequisites.
The S-130 online training can be found here: https://wildlandfirelearningportal.net/enrol/index.php...
The S-190 online training can be found here: https://wildlandfirelearningportal.net/enrol/index.php...
The L-180 online training can be found here: https://wildlandfirelearningportal.net/enrol/index.php...
If you have any issues, feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

04/06/2021

Warm sunny weather with wind and dropping humidity will make conditions favorable for rapid fire growth if a natural cover is ignited. Please refrain from any out door burning.

04/05/2021

Fire danger rising through the day in to the afternoon. Please refrain from any out door burning.

11/08/2020

Beautiful sunny warm day for November! Fire danger is high so please even if you are in a municipality that allows open burning refrain from it. Very dry conditions with the leafletter on the ground can contribute to dangerous fire conditions.

08/22/2020

8/21/2020 SLCWC was requested to assist Forestry in the area of 1169 ROUTE 11 HWY.
We assisted with hose line deployment, mop up, and tree remediation on a rugged part of the mountian.

03/31/2020

With wild fire season approaching is your home and family safe? Please see the guidelines below.

03/19/2020

Tonight's fire.

03/19/2020

Crews from Hazle Township Fire and Harwood Fire along with DCNR Forestry handled 2 wildland fires in close proximity to each other just to the south of Oak Ridge Road in the Humboldt Industrial Park. Fire 1 was approximately 1 acre and the second was approximately 4 acres. Crews operated about 3 hours.

03/08/2020

Special Weather Statement issued March 8 at 3:52AM EDT by NWS Binghamton NY

Areas Affected: Northern Wayne; Cortland; Steuben; Tioga; Bradford; Schuyler; Southern Wayne; Broome; Sullivan; Pike; Susquehanna; Chemung; Delaware; Wyoming; Lackawanna; Tompkins; Seneca; Southern Cayuga; Otsego; Luzerne; Chenango; Yates

A high fire risk will be in place for today, Sunday, March 8thacross most of the region. Relative humidity as low as 20 to 25percent and winds gusting at 10 to 20 mph through the afternoonwill make conditions favorable for fires to spread easily. Anyoutside buring is strongly discouraged.