INL Fire Department prepares for 2025 wildland fire season
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Fire Department is preparing for the 2025 wildland fire season. Before each summer fire season, the department reviews its procedures and lessons learned from previous fires. This ensures firefighters are prepared to protect people, property and the environment from wildland fires at the desert Site. INL’s […]
Firefighters learn from INL experts about electric vehicle batteries, safety
There’s a reason that electric vehicles (EV) in salvage yards are kept by themselves and spaced far apart. Their lithium-ion batteries can hold a lot of energy, and if one catches fire, it’s sometimes hard for firefighters to extinguish the blaze. Even if the fire appears to be out, it can reignite later, said Randy […]
Fire and ice: To make the grid more resilient, INL researchers delve into advanced conductor testing
As businesses and organizations across America increasingly adopt digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence, the energy demands on the power grid from data centers have surged. These centers, vital for storing and processing the data that artificial intelligence requires, consume vast amounts of electricity to power servers, maintain connectivity and manage cooling. Data centers are just […]
INL Fire Department prepares for 2024 wildland fire season
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The Idaho National Laboratory Fire Department is preparing for the 2024 wildland fire season. Before each summer fire season, the department reviews its procedures and lessons learned from previous fires. This ensures firefighters are prepared to protect people, property and the environment at the desert Site from wildland fires. INL’s precautions […]
Idaho National Laboratory prepares for 2023 fire season
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – The fire department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory is preparing for the 2023 wildland fire season. Before each summer fire season, the INL Fire Department reviews its procedures and lessons learned from previous fires. This ensures firefighters are prepared to protect people, property and the environment at the desert Site from wildland fires.
Longtime INL fire chief looks back on career
As he looks back on 15 years as chief of the INL Fire Department, Eric Gosswiller can point to plenty of accomplishments, but it’s the people who stand out the most.
Former Pocatello National Guard Armory serves first responders again
Idaho State University’s Disaster Response Complex sees emergency responders from across the country come to train for emergency readiness.
Calibration technician moonlights as mountain man
When he’s not working, INL calibration technician Jack Montgomery spends his off time selling coats on the American frontier as a mountain man.
Remembering 9/11
Each year on Sept. 11, your INL Fire Department honors those who gave the ultimate sacrifice on that day.
One year after historic Sheep Fire, Idaho Site contractors, agencies eye coming fire season
As summer nears and Idaho National Laboratory prepares for fire season, the Sheep Fire of 2019 is still fresh in everyone’s collective memory.
Preparations for INL’s 2020 fire season underway
With summer 2020 at hand, INL’s Fire Department is making preparations. Fire is a fact of life on the Snake River Plain, the land on which INL sits.
Just over 60 percent of INL’s 890 square miles are in Butte County.
The partnership between Butte County and INL got put through its paces on April 11 with emergency management personnel staging a mutual aid drill.
EBR-I is open on Aug. 21 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
INL and Fluor Idaho are curtailing operations on Aug. 21, to alleviate the potential for safety and transportation-related issues during the solar eclipse.
INL firefighters prepare for potentially high wildfire season
Wildland fire season has arrived at the Idaho desert. The INL Fire Department is ready to help employees stay safe during this high-threat time period.
Idaho National Laboratory transitions to ‘minimum-safe plus’ status
INL will transition to “minimum-safe plus” status in compliance with Gov. Little’s “Stay Home” order to help prevent the transmission of COVID-19.
U.S. Department of Energy transfers brush fire truck to Shoshone-Bannock Tribes at Fort Hall
DOE recently transferred an INL-operated brush fire truck to the fire department of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation.
INL bus, government vehicles involved in crash on U.S. 20
A crash involving an INL bus, a private fuel tanker, two government vehicles and two private vehicles occurred on U.S. 20 west of Idaho Falls on Jan. 15.
Annual emergency exercise demonstrates vast first response capacity in region
Every year, INL, its emergency exercise planning team and regional agencies conduct a lifelike emergency scenario to prepare for a real-life scenario.
Fire danger increases as the grasses and sagebrush dry
The Fire Department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is preparing for the 2017 wildland fire season.