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A Classification of US Wildland Firefighter Entrapments Based on Coincident Fuels, Weather, and Topography

open access: yesFire, 2019
Previous attempts to identify the environmental factors associated with firefighter entrapments in the United States have suggested that there are several common denominators.
Wesley G. Page   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Firefighters under alert: psychological morbidity, empathy and alexithymia between firefighters and non-firefighters

open access: yesPSICOLOGIA, 2023
Firefighters have high exposure to traumatic events and have an increased risk of developing symptoms related to trauma. The current study assessed the psychological morbidity, empathy and alexithymia of volunteer firefighters compared to career firefighters and to non-firefighter comparators from the general population. Group differences were assessed
Rodrigues,Fabiana   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

3/2 Firefighters are not enough [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The firefighter problem is a monotone dynamic process in graphs that can be viewed as modeling the use of a limited supply of vaccinations to stop the spread of an epidemic.
Berlekamp   +16 more
core   +1 more source

Firefighting on trees

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science, 2019
In the Firefighter problem, introduced by Hartnell in 1995, a fire spreads through a graph while a player chooses which vertices to protect in order to contain it. In this paper, we focus on the case of trees and we consider as well the Fractional Firefighter game where the amount of protection allocated to a vertex lies between 0 and 1.
Coupechoux, Pierre   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Post-traumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms among firefighters: a network analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundFirefighters, as first responders with a high risk of occupational exposure to traumatic events and heavy working stress, have a high prevalence of PTSD symptoms and depressive symptoms.
Peng Cheng   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maximizing vertex rescue: investigating the firefighter problem with edge subdivision

open access: yesAKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics
The firefighter problem is a game played on a connected graph where a fire breaks out at a vertex. In each round, a firefighter chooses a vertex to protect, and the fire then spreads to all unprotected neighbors of the burning vertex.
Chutchawon Weeranukunjit   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of firefighters' knowledge about medical procedures

open access: yesCritical Care Innovations, 2019
INTRODUCTION: National Firefighting Rescue System (NFRS) plays an crucial role in ensuring internal security of Poland. NFRS is based on Professional Fire Services (PFS) and Voluntary Fire Services (VFS).
Adam Sawicki, Damian Chrościcki
doaj   +1 more source

Bandung City Firefighters’ Quality of Work Life

open access: yesEnlighten, 2022
Working as a firefighter has high risk of accidents and high responsibility in carrying out their duties. Firefighters must have a good quality of work life to be able to provide optimal service.
Silvia Maharani Hapsari   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Firefighter Problem: A Structural Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We consider the complexity of the firefighter problem where b>=1 firefighters are available at each time step. This problem is proved NP-complete even on trees of degree at most three and budget one (Finbow et al.,2007) and on trees of bounded degree b+3
A King   +16 more
core   +3 more sources

Breast Cancer-Related Chemical Exposures in Firefighters

open access: yesToxics
To fill a research gap on firefighter exposures and breast cancer risk, and guide exposure reduction, we aimed to identify firefighter occupational exposures linked to breast cancer.
Bethsaida Cardona   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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