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Fire, 2019 The recent mountain pine beetle outbreak affecting lodgepole pine forests in the Rocky Mountains has created a novel fire environment for wildland firefighters.
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Biomass estimations of invasives Yaupon, Chinese Privet and Chinese Tallow in east Texas Hardwood and Pine Ecosystems [PDF]
, 2017 Forest understory fuels can have profound effects on fire behavior and crown fire initiation. Accurate fire behavior prediction in understory fuels is an essential component for estimating fire intensity and severity during wildfire and prescribed fire ...
Conway, Warren +4 more
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Epic Human Failure on June 30, 2013 [PDF]
, 2018 Nineteen Prescott Fire Department, Granite Mountain Hot Shot (GMHS) wildland firefighters and supervisors (WFF), perished on the June 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire (YHF) in Arizona.
B Stanton +6 more
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Vertical and Horizontal Crown Fuel Continuity Influences Group-Scale Ignition and Fuel Consumption
Fire, 2023 A deeper understanding of the influence of fine-scale fuel patterns on fire behavior is essential to the design of forest treatments that aim to reduce fire hazard, enhance structural complexity, and increase ecosystem function and resilience.
Scott M. Ritter +4 more
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The salvo combat model with area fire [PDF]
, 2013 This paper analyzes versions of the salvo model of missile combat where area fire is used by one or both sides in a battle. While these models share some properties with the area fire Lanchester model and the aimed fire salvo model, they also display ...
Armstrong, Michael J.
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023 IntroductionIn Portugal, the 2017 fire season was particularly extreme, leading to an unprecedented large number of fatalities, injured people, destruction of houses and infrastructures.
Akli Benali +3 more
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Fire behavior of innovative alginate foams
Carbohydrate Polymers, 2020 A new biosourced composite foam (AF, associating foamed alginate matrix and orange peel filler) is successfully tested for fire-retardant properties. This material having similar thermal insulating properties and density than fire-retardant polyurethane foam (FR-PUF, a commercial product) shows promising enhanced properties for flame retardancy, as ...
Thierry Vincent +5 more
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A Review of Fire Interactions and Mass Fires
Journal of Combustion, 2011 The character of a wildland fire can change dramatically in the presence of another nearby fire. Understanding and predicting the changes in behavior due to fire-fire interactions cannot only be life-saving to those on the ground, but also be used to ...
Mark A. Finney, Sara S. McAllister
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Illicit Prescription Opioid Use Among U.S. Firefighters
FireFirefighters are vulnerable to opioid misuse given the adverse effects their occupation has on mental and physical health. Yet there are limited data on opioid misuse within this population.
Richard R. Suminski +5 more
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Research on the cladding systems of the buildings from the perspective of the fire reaction of component materials [PDF]
Constructii: Journal of Civil Engineering Research, 2019 During a fire in a building, the fire contribution is influenced by the parameters that influence the initial fire condition and, after ignition, the uncontrolled fire evolution.
Horaţiu Gabriel DRAGNE +2 more
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