Lombardo orders flags at half-staff for firefighter killed while fighting Utah wildfire

Lombardo orders flags at half-staff for firefighter killed while fighting Utah wildfire

Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo has ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff Monday in honor of a firefighter who died in a helicopter crash while fighting the Widemouth 2 Fire in Utah.

Utah Wildfire Unleashed PyroCb: Smoke particles directly measured in stratosphere

The INSPYRE mission has captured direct measurements of smoke particles and gases injected into the stratosphere during the Widemouth 2 wildfire in Utah. The multi-platform campaign combined satellite remote sensing, high-altitude aircraft sampling, and ground-based sensors to observe two distinct pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) events — towering fire-driven thunderstorms whose tops pierced the tropopause. Campaign design and observational platforms T…