Fighting fires in Ukraine Ukrainian firefighters continue to operate in the war zone, saving lives and protect property. Since the start of the invasion three years ago, 100 firefighters have been killed, 411 Ukrainian fire stations have been destroyed and 1,700 fire vehicles lost. Tom Diaper, ...
Reports on efforts of Evangelical churches and Christian relief agencies to help the victims of the Southern California fires in the fall of 1993. Sandbagging projects organized by Monrovia, California-based World Vision; Camps opened by the...
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fire return intervals were more variable in cold forests than lower elevation forests, and fires on average reached a given cell once every 30 years, often at high severity. Most fires were small-
MODIS active fire datasets // --- // MOD14A1, MYD14A1 = MODIS/Terra and Aqua active fires and thermal anomalies // resolution: daily, gridded at 1km in sinusoidal projection (SR-ORG:6974) // variables: fire mask (FireMask), fire radiative power in MW (MaxFRP) // satellite overpass...
Human safety is one of the most important considerations for building design and management1,2. Indeed, a wide range of natural and anthropogenic emergencies could impose risks on buildings, including fires, earthquakes, and floods3. Unfortunately, in the U.S., active shooter incidents present an...
Amazon fires. Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean so far in 2020 have set the stage for an active hurricane season and elevated the risk of fires in the southern Amazon, according to scientists atNASAand the University of California, Irvine. ...
Although fires on the forested slopes of this valley have already been recorded (Germain et al., 2005), historical data (archives, dendrochronology, stratigraphy) have not shown any fires specifically on the T3 slope studied, although it remains subject to various disturbances and particularly in ...
Fires continue to occur under the dual attitudes of anthropogenic “use” and “prevention” [1,2]. In recent decades, global environmental changes have aroused concerns from the international community [3]. In particular, the continuous occurrence of large-scale forest fires directly or indirectly...
California experiences two distinct fire periods -- a summer season (where fires are mainly heat-driven) and a fall season (where winds usually fuel the fires). During August and part of September, wildfire high-risk zones ...