# Pivotal Moments in Wildfire Firefighting History

**Category:** History  
**Updated:** 1 Dec 2024

The history of wildfire firefighting can be viewed through significant shifts in policy, techniques, and public awareness, shaped by pivotal events and new understandings. This timeline highlights how wildfire firefighting strategies and policies have developed over time, through key moments and important figures that have significantly influenced current practices. This project will map out the course of how the wildfire firefighting has changed in American History.

Events highlighted in red signify important fires in wildfire history, events in green showcase important policies and organizations established, and events in blue signify new techniques incorporated to suppress fires.

Each entry has citations listed below them, below is the link to official citation page: [Official Citation Page](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ve811xEErUziCRGNc0mYc-CHCiyjtoMEAcCDepM8pnU/edit?usp=sharing)

#### Contributors  
  
Created by [zac](/content/user/1255531/index.html)

### Events  
- [Weeks Act 1911](/content/event/9912078/index.html)  
- ["10 am" Policy](/content/event/9912164/index.html)  
- [Civilian Conservation Corps](/content/event/9912335/index.html)  
- [Mass Fire Strategy](/content/event/9912336/index.html)  
- [California fires](/content/event/9912337/index.html)  
- [Smokey the Bear](/content/event/9912338/index.html)  
- [New Technologies](/content/event/9912339/index.html)  
- [Camp Fire 2018](/content/event/9912340/index.html)  
- [Aerial Firefighting](/content/event/9912562/index.html)  
- [Yellowstone Fires 1988](/content/event/9912587/index.html)  
- [Oakland Hills Fire](/content/event/9912636/index.html)  
- [Peshtigo Fires](/content/event/9912841/index.html)  
- [Recent Mandates](/content/event/9915922/index.html)

### Periods  
- [The Big Burn](/content/period/3699770/index.html)  
- [Changes to Fire Management after The Big Burn (Early 1900s)](/content/period/3699865/index.html)  
- [New Shift: Understanding Fire as a part of Forest Ecology](/content/period/3700068/index.html)  
- [Gifford Pinochet](/content/period/3701519/index.html)

### Images