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Fractal dimension analysis of spatial distribution rationality of urban fire stations

Journal of Urban Management
Fire stations are critical urban public infrastructures, and their spatial distribution should align with the spatial patterns of urban buildings to ensure efficient service delivery.
Zihan Wang, Yanguang Chen, Muchen Zheng
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Spatial heterogeneity of winds during Santa Ana and non-Santa Ana wildfires in Southern California with implications for fire risk modeling

Heliyon, 2020
In Southern California, the Santa Ana winds are famous for their role in spreading large wildfires during the fall/winter season. Combined with Southern California's complex topography, Santa Anas create challenges for modeling wind-fire relationships in
Alex W. Dye, John B. Kim, Karin L. Riley
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Locating the Fire Stations of Urmia City Using GIS and AHP [PDF]

جغرافیا و توسعه, 2014
Generating new civil facilities requires a careful study to find a convenient location for these facilities in different parts of a city. The first and main point in correct and appropriate allocation of civil facilities is selecting the optimum with ...
Mohamadrahim Rahnama, Ahmad Aftab
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Design Discussion on the Fire Fighting for Solar Power Plant

南方能源建设, 2020
[Introduction] For solar thermal power stations, which are different from conventional power plants, develop safe, reliable, economical and reasonable design standards for fire protection facilities to ensure the construction and safe operation of power ...
ZHANG Kaijun
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Mapping Spatial Inequity in Urban Fire Service Provision: A Moran’s I Analysis of Station Pressure Distribution

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Fire security is an important part of the urban infrastructure system. In existing quantitative application research, fire stations have always used a maximally covered approach to optimize the layout of urban functions.
Jianyu Li, Mingxing Hu
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Evaluating spatial configuration of fire stations based on real-time traffic

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021
Fire stations play a key role in controlling typical thermal runaway phenomena (fires). Based on real-time traffic, we develop a data crawling and processing algorithm for travel times, and propose an evaluation model for the spatial configuration of ...
Zhisheng Xu, Dingli Liu, Long Yan
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Measuring Spatial Accessibility of Urban Fire Services Using Historical Fire Incidents in Nanjing, China

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
The measurement of spatial accessibility of fire services is a key task in enhancing fire response efficiency and minimizing property losses and deaths.
Kainan Mao, Yuehong Chen, Guohao Wu, Junwang Huang, Wanying Yang, Zelong Xia   +5 more
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Conformity of filling stations to safe distance guidelines in urban Ghana: A case study of the Wa Municipality

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
In recent years, filling station disasters have been prevalent in Ghanaian cities. The extant literature showed that enforcing regulations regarding filling stations’ safe distance is a forward-looking step to reducing disaster risks associated with ...
Alfred Dongzagla, Issah Baddianaah, Florence A. Avogo, Joana Tengbane   +3 more
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Modeling The Deployment Of A Fire Station And Firehouse In Selected Areas Of The Slovak Republic – The Districts Of Povazska Bystrica And Puchov

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering, 2015
There is a lot of legislative and theoretical knowledge about the deployment of fire stations and firehouses. Their placement in the Slovak Republic is, for the most part historical.
Jurdik Juraj
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Optimal Route Determination to provide Relief Following an Earthquake using the Traffic Density Ratio (Case Study: Isfahan's Fire Stations)

Communications, 2021
Despite the very important role of primary arteries and transportation network in providing relief for regions affected by an earthquake and black spots, they have received less attention.
Seyed Ahmad Almasi, Mohammad Mehdi Khabiri, Mehdi Fallah Tafti, Meisam Akbarzadeh   +3 more
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