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Wildland Fire Leadership is Down to You. Yes, You!  January 15,
2010  Return to January 2010 issue of On Scene  IAFC On Scene:
January 2010  Over the past several decades, the fire and
emergency service has become virtually everything to everyone.
There are few, if any, response calls we don’t heed.  Why then,
do so many fire and emergency leaders still say, “Who, me?” on
the subject of wildland fire? While portions of the U.S. and
Canada are more susceptible to wildland fires or magnitudes of
extreme fire behavior, virtually every region of North America
faces wildland fire and the rapidly increasing growth of the
wildland urban interface (WUI).  While fire will always be fire,
how we fight the fire, the fuel, weather conditions, actions of
the public and the layers of resources are becoming more dynamic
than ever—and it’s you who must be ready.  In the west, years of
fire control have led to dramatic increases in ladder fuels,
brush and trees tha