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Tending fire: coping with America's wildland fires

open access: yesChoice Reviews Online, 2005
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +4 more sources

Influence of fire characteristics on the associations between smoke PM2.5 exposure and acute cardiorespiratory health events

open access: yesEnvironment International
Background: Wildland fire smoke is a significant source of PM2.5 pollution in the western United States, with varying chemical composition and toxicity depending on fire characteristics. Methods: We analyzed emergency department and urgent care visits in
Calvin S. Riss   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reconciling Assumptions in Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches for Estimating Aerosol Emission Rates From Wildland Fires Using Observations From FIREX-AQ. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Geophys Res Atmos, 2021
Wiggins EB   +35 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Wildland Fire: Management Improvements Could Enhance Federal Agencies' Efforts to Contain the Costs of Fighting Fires [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Annual appropriations to prepare for and respond to wildland fires have increased substantially over the past decade, in recent years totaling about $3 billion.
United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Seasonal somatic reserves of a northern ungulate influenced by reproduction and a fire-mediated landscape

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Wildlife contend with seasonal fluctuations in resource availability and have adapted survival and reproductive strategies to overcome resource limitations.
Daniel P. Thompson   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wildland Fire Science — Supporting wildland fire and land management [PDF]

open access: yesFact Sheet, 2019
Paul F. Steblein   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Global expansion of wildland-urban interface intensifies human exposure to wildfire risk in the 21st century

open access: yesScience Advances
Rapidly increasing human-nature interactions exacerbate the risk of exposure to wildfires for human society. The wildland-urban interface (WUI) represents the nexus of human-nature interactions, where the risk of exposure to natural hazards such as ...
Yongxuan Guo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predicting Wildfire Ember Hot-Spots on Gable Roofs via Deep Learning

open access: yesFire
Ember accumulation on and around homes can lead to spot fires and home ignition. Post wildland fire assessments suggest that this mechanism is one of the leading causes of home destruction in wildland urban interface (WUI) fires.
Mohammad Khaled Al-Bashiti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Heat-Resistant Tethered Micro-Aerial Vehicle for Structure Fire Sensing

open access: yesApplied Sciences
The collapse of structures during firefighter intervention is one of the greatest risks that firefighters must face when entering buildings. To reduce these risks, situational awareness is key.
Daniel Aláez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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