While wildland firefighters may work in emergency manage- ment periodically and some commonalities with struc- tural firefighting do exist, many of the occupational and environmental exposures and hazards that wildland fire- fighters face are distinctly different from other classes of emergency responders ...
NIFC has an office in Boise, Idaho, where eight of the nation’s biggest wildland firefighting federal and state agencies—including the United States Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service—send staff members to work together on large wildfire response efforts...
Each year, wildfires ravage the western U.S. and change the lives of millions of inhabitants. Situated in southern California, coastal Santa Barbara has witnessed devastating wildfires in the past decade, with nearly all ignitions started by humans. Ther
This can be attributed to larger equipment and water storage enhancing firefighting effectiveness, thereby increasing the likelihood of structures being deemed defensible. There were noteworthy associations between mitigation hours, the presence of defensible space, and the likelihood that structures would be...
In the wildland–urban interface areas in the region that is the subject of this study, problems related to the losses of property and lives and the increases in firefighting budgets are especially important [5,6]. Such problems increase the importance of risk assessment studies in terms of ...
In addition, some of the recent frameworks proposing the use of both aerial vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) for a more efficient wildland firefighting strategy at a larger scale are presented. Keywords: unmanned aerial systems; UAV; autonomous systems; wildland fire; forest fires; ...
snags; hazard; wildland firefighting; machine learning; random forests; Forest Inventory and Analysis1. Introduction Increased tree mortality from multiple disturbance agents in the western U.S. has increased the abundance of dead standing trees, or snags, in many forests [1]. Some of the major ...
Classes are connected to each other by corresponding object properties. For example, the relations between Incident and Affected Entity are delineated through the hasTrigger property and those of the Incident and Response Department (subclass of Emergency Response) through the hasObligation property. ...
As the results show, most FLI values (NoTreat values) exceeded 1700 kW/m, identified by many authors as the threshold value beyond which wildfire suppression by retardant spraying by aerial firefighting aircraft is required [30]. Table 3. Results of simulations performed with FlamMap 5 in each...