Victims of Colorado's 2021 Marshall Fire, which destroyed more than 1,000 homes and killed two people, are connecting with victims of the Los Angeles-area fires in an effort to help them as they begin the process of rebuilding. The fires were similar in how they moved and what they wiped...
destroying agricultural crops and forest, emitting large amounts of CO2and air pollutants, resulting in adverse health effects. In order to reduce fire, the Indonesian government has committed to restore 2.49 Mha of degraded peatland, with an estimated cost of US$3.2-7 billion....
inspect homes, and pinpoint places to reduce vulnerability. The same type of map encourages homeowners to trim trees, remove wood chips, or add screens on chimneys and vents to halt embers from entering. In this way, firefighters and community members come together to harden assets and protect ...
Visitors can also download the freeWatch Dutyapp, which alerts users when new fires erupt and features a map of the ongoing fires and evacuation routes. To check the current air quality in the area, travelers can keep an eye onAirNow.govthroughout their stay. Apu Gomes/Getty Firefighter bat...
The Laki (Skaftár Fires) fissure eruption in southern Iceland lasted for eight months during 1783 to 1784, and produced one of the largest basaltic lava flows in historic times (14.7±1.0 km3). In addition, neighboring Grímsvötn central volcano was frequently active during the period from ...
Satellites, computers, remote automated weather stations, and lightning strike detectors are among the new tools used to monitor, map, and model fires."It's really giving people more comfort in their ability to predict fire behavior," says veteran firefighter Timothy Ingalsbee, executive director...
A sample representation of actual community layout (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA) as a graph network. The nodes of each way define its specific boundary and the edges represent the potential fire propagation paths (©OpenStreetMap contributors55). ...
In the wake of last summer's fires, local officials in Montana plan to map out burning seams across the state's southeast in coming months using a federal grant. Controlling them will be difficult and could cost a minimum of $300,000 per site, said Bobbi Vannattan with the Rosebud Conser...
map information of secondary and old-growth forests classes, showing that even in grid cells without any recorded deforestation, we still find an increase in forest area burned from 2008 (150–200 km2) to 2012 (300–350 km2; Fig.7b). Finally, during the drought year of 2010, 90.5% ...
We thank Jessica Clement for valuable insights into the social dimensions of wildland fire management, and Brian Harvey for preparing the dNBR map of the 1988 Yellowstone fires (Figure 1). We also appreciate constructive comments on earlier versions of the manuscript from Steve Jackson, Dan Donato...