Bradley Pietruszka

Fire Management Specialist

Rocky Mountain Research Station

0000-0001-8612-4132

bradley.pietruszka@usda.gov

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Treesearch Publications

Shayne Magstadt, Erin J. Belval, Bradley Pietruszka, Yu Wei, Christopher D. O'Connor. 2026. An assessment of aerial firefighting response times between agencies during the 2020 fire season in California
Sylvia Kantor, Natalie A. Cooper, Erin J. Belval, Bradley Pietruszka, Alex Viktora. 2026. Quantifying danger: New data on wildland firefighter injuries
Alexander Arkowitz, Scott Ritter, Matthew P. Thompson, Jesse D. Young, Bradley Pietruszka, Dave E. Calkin. 2025. Quality assured spatial dataset of wildfire containment firelines and engagement outcomes 2017 to 2024
Erin J. Belval, Bradley Pietruszka, Alex Viktora. 2025. The price of doing business: Severe injuries in wildland firefighters in the United States by activity performed and hazard encountered
Jesse D. Young, Erin J. Belval, Benjamin Gannon, Yu Wei, Christopher D. O'Connor, Christopher Dunn, Bradley Pietruszka, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2024. The cost of operational complexity: A causal assessment of pre-fire mitigation and wildfire suppression
Shayne Magstadt, Yu Wei, Bradley Pietruszka, Dave E. Calkin. 2024. A deep learning approach for predicting aerial suppressant drops in wildland firefighting using automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast data
Bradley Pietruszka, Dave E. Calkin, Matt Thompson, Stephen Fillmore. 2024. Rethinking strategy in wildfire response
Bradley Pietruszka. 2024. Misconceptions around strategy: Managing fire response and public communication to support risk-based decisionmaking
Bradley Pietruszka, Jesse D. Young, Karen C. Short, Lise A. St. Denis, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin. 2023. Consequential lightning‑caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

Matthew P Thompson, Christopher D O'Connor, Benjamin M Gannon, Michael D Caggiano, Christopher J Dunn, Courtney A Schultz, David E Calkin, Bradley M Pietruszka, S. Michelle Greiner, Richard Stratton, Jeffrey T Morisette. 2022. Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk‑informed strategic land and fire management