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[refugees] in Iowa City." Greer's enthusiasm shows there is potential for an
NFPA machine translation platform to be
used not just abroad, but in the United
States as well.
Ayub said that so far, testing of a
prototype web platform has been promising, yielding translations far superior
to what Google can generate-at least
for NFPA's technical documents. The
next steps will be refining the platform's
capability to translate more colloquial
phrases, he said.
NFPA is currently looking for volunteers, especially non-English speakers,
to become testers of the developing
technology. Those interested in participating should contact Joe Gochal at
jgochal@nfpa.org.

GETT Y IMAGES

United Kingdom
'From nothing to everything':
Official reflects on the 2018
Winter Hill Fire
In the summer of 2018, the Winter Hill
Fire swept across rural towns in the
central part of the United Kingdom,
overwhelming a fire service unaccustomed to fighting wildland blazes and
upending the historic trend of large
wildfires not happening in
the UK. Shaun Walton, a
wildfire tactical lead with the
National Fire Chiefs Council
(NFCC), shared his experience responding to last year's
Winter Hill fire during an
education session at the NFPA
Conference & Expo in San
Antonio, Texas, in June.
"It went from nothing to
everything like that," Walton
told attendees of his talk,
snapping his fingers. "It flew."
The blaze burned for over 40
days, threatening homes as
well as a major telecommunications station, and torching
about 4,500 acres-while
that's not a lot by US standards, it was big enough to
overwhelm firefighters in the
UK. Without the know-how to
fight wildfires, what ended
up happening, Walton said,
was the fire service essentially
just kept throwing firefighters
and fire engines at the fire.
It eventually worked but was
a method Walton and other
UK fire service officials know
isn't sustainable, especially
as the threat of wildfire will
loom larger in the UK and
elsewhere around the world
as time passes.

"We're accepting that in the UK these
wildfires are getting more severe and
more frequent, and we've got to start
adapting not just from a response perspective, but from a prevention and
awareness standpoint," Walton said. "It's
unsustainable to throw 30 fire engines
at a fire day after day. We need to make
sure we do more prevention...[so that]
local authorities and the public are all
understanding that risk."
Begur, Spain
Spain's Wildfire Prep Day a success
In June, local government and emergency response agencies came
together for the first time in Begur,
Spain, to deliver wildfire safety messaging to residents as part of the country's
second annual Wildfire Community
Preparedness Day. This year, cross-departmental collaboration and the
concept of the NFPA Fire & Life Safety
Ecosystem took center stage.
Begur is located on the Mediterranean coast, about 70 miles northeast
of Barcelona, and faces issues related
to dense development, access, and a
large summer tourist population. When
combined with massive wildfires, which

have already started to burn bigger
and more frequently throughout the
Mediterranean region, these factors
can create catastrophic situations.
The Pau Costa Foundation, which
works with NFPA on wildfire public
education in Spain and the European
Union, coordinated June's Prep Day
events, using it as an opportunity to
develop agency collaboration as well
as introduce the concept of the NFPA
Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem to the
region. Oriol Vilalta, general manager
of the foundation, said the most significant accomplishment of the event
was connecting individuals who work
in wildfire prevention with those who
work in suppression, and various government agencies with one another,
according to Lucian Deaton, a program
manager in NFPA's Wildfire Division.
"This Ecosystem approach provided a road map for the how, why,
and, importantly, who for the wildfire
risk reduction outreach in Begur,
Spain," Deaton said. "NFPA appreciated attending the event and seeing
firsthand the collaborative work of the
local emergency response agencies
and governments in creating a more
informed public."

SMOLDERING MOORS
Firefighters work to extinguish the Winter Hill Fire in northwest
England in July 2018. At the 2019 NFPA Conference & Expo in San
Antonio, Texas, in June, one English wildfire official detailed the
chaotic response to the Winter Hill Fire and the country's desire to
move toward a prevention-focused approach to battling wildfire.

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