As rural areas of Kansas become more developed with homes, business and commercial properties, firefighters face new challenges to defend lives and property from wildfire.

Members of the Kansas Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Program bring years of first-hand experience suppressing wildfires that threaten lives and property in wildland urban interface areas. In this episode of the Kansas Forest Service Podcast, three members of the program discuss the expansion WUI across Kansas and how it has changed wildfire suppression tactics.

They also offer advice for homeowners to prepare your homes for wildfire.

Learn more about the KFS Wilandland Fire Management Program at kansasforests.org/fire_management/.

Find guides and advance to prepare your home for wildfire kansasforests.org/fire_management/fireprevention.html.

This episode was originally published May 12, 2020 and was re-published on a new platform in 2022.