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Training the Next Generation: Highlights from TEA’s Inaugural Wildland Fire Academy
In April 2026, The Ember Alliance (TEA) hosted its first-ever Wildland Fire Academy in partnership with Front Range Community College (FRCC) in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The Ember Alliance Releases 2025 Annual Impact Report
Dear Friends of TEA, 2025 was an incredible year for The Ember Alliance. Our passionate TEAm has accomplished so much, and we continue to blossom.
TEA Launches First-Ever Wildland Fire Academy
In partnership with Front Range Community College, TEA is offering FREE wildland fire academy classes to students in Fort Collins, CO in April 2026.

Fort Bragg Hosts Cutting-Edge Smoke Modeling Research to Improve Prescribed Fire Management
TEA joined researchers to validate QUIC-SMOKE– a new physics-based smoke model designed to help fire managers better predict and manage smoke impacts from both wildfires

Fieldwork Spotlight: Partnering on Fuel Treatment Research
Fieldwork Spotlight: Partnering on Fuel Treatment Research
TEA Builds Slash Piles and Community at Blackhawk Pile Workshop
In July, Gilpin County community members gathered for a Pile Build Workshop to learn about forest health and wildfire mitigation.

TEA Completes Evergreen CWPP Update
Earlier this year, the Resilient Communities and Ecosystems team partnered with Evergreen Fire/Rescue (EFR) to complete an update to their Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP).

The Ember Alliance Releases 2024 Year in review
The Ember Alliance is excited to share our 2024 Year in Review!
This year, we burned over 12,000 acres through prescribed fire, completed Community

New TREX Medical Risk Management Guide
A lack of medical and mental health resources is reflected throughout wildland fire management. TEA and the Fire Learning Network created the TREX Medical Risk
