I was fortunate enough earlier this month to travel to Boston to attend the National Fire Protection Association Annual Conference and Expo.I spent most of my time in the wildfire streams.The reason I was there was because the FireWise team at NFPA, together with the NFPA Research Foundation, wanted to explore wildfire research topics with a group of international experts. The research workshop was notable in that all countries are dealing with an increase in the risk and impacts of climate change, whith what used to be rare events are the new normal.