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Awareness analysis via Weibo social media data of major fire disasters

Journal of Safety Science and Resilience
Fire, a globally significant hazard, has a detrimental impact on lives, property, and socio-economic development. Public attention to fires is crucial for building fire safety under the current disaster-driven regulation development.
Xiaoyu Sun, Yifei Ding, Zhichao He, Xinyan Huang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple UAV Swarms Collaborative Firefighting Strategy Considering Forest Fire Spread and Resource Constraints

Drones
To address the demands of efficient forest fire detection and suppression, an adaptive multiple UAV swarm collaborative firefighting strategy considering dynamic forest fire spread and resource constraints was proposed in this paper.
Pei Zhu, Rui Song, Jiangao Zhang, Ziheng Xu, Yaqi Gou, Zhi Sun, Quan Shao   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

7.1 THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF LIVE FIREFIGHTING ON ARTERIAL FUNCTION IN FIREFIGHTERS

Artery Research, 2016
Background: Aging is associated with increased arterial stiffness and wave reflection, which is predictive of all-cause cardiovascular (CV) mortality (1–3). Firefighters have the highest cardiovascular mortality of any occupational group (4). High levels
Alexander Rosenberg, Kanokwan Bunsawat, Tommy Wee, Tracy Baynard, Gavin Horn, Denise Smith, Bo Fernhall   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effects of Fire Fighting and On-Scene Rehabilitation on Hemostatis [PDF]

, 2010
Fire fighting is a dangerous occupation – in part because firefighters are called upon to perform strenuous physical activity in hot, hostile environments.
Fahey, George C., Fernhall, B., Horn, Gavin P., Illinois Fire Service Institute, Petruzzello, Steven J., Smith, Denise L., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Woods, Jeffrey   +7 more
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Review of California Wildfire Evacuations from 2017 to 2019 [PDF]

, 2020
Between 2017 and 2019, California experienced a series of devastating wildfires that together led over one million people to be ordered to evacuate. Due to the speed of many of these wildfires, residents across California found themselves in challenging ...
Broader, Jacquelyn C., Shaheen, Susan A., PhD, Wong, Stephen D.   +2 more
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Self‐Giving and Reflections on Life Extension: How Love Might Shape the Choice of Whether to Live Past a Natural Human Lifespan

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing upon a deprivationist account of the badness of death, Ingemar Patrick Linden advocates for a hypothetical state called “contingent immortality.” The future Linden champions is one in which every person would be able to live for as long as they would like, save for events like accidents or murder.
Andrew Moeller, Ann‐Marie Shorrocks, Keith Lemna   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of fire drills on firefighters’ performance

Jàmbá
Firefighting is one of the most physically demanding, dangerous, and stressful jobs, constituting several physical activities, which include moving equipment up the stairs in tall buildings and deploying charged hoses.
Matome R. Ramohale, Botshelo B. Mokaleng, Nthai Monnye   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIMs) are a type of clinical trial involving deliberately exposing human volunteers to an infectious agent. Compared to studies of natural infection, CHIMs offers distinctive benefits, from the ability to study presymptomatic infection to a direct assessment of the efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics in a ...
Alexa Nord‐Bronzyk, Barnaby Young, Jerry Menikoff, Julian Savulescu, G. Owen Schaefer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fast Firefighting Water Capacity Assessment Using a Streamlined Single-Loop Hybrid Search

Engineering Proceedings
The water distribution system firefighting capacity is widely estimated using decades-old methods that are inefficient for the scale of typical models nowadays.
Felipe Hernández
doaj   +1 more source