From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,...
Alaska Reference Database
The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Rodríguez-Trejo
Created Year: 1999
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Forest fires are not spatially uniform events. They result in a complicated mosaic of burned and unburned vegetation. To manage fuel loads and the associated fire hazard it is essential to improve our understanding of the spatial patterns of the...
Person: Medler
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The fire season of 2000 is one of the most severe on record, burning approximately seven million acres by the end of September—over 2.5 times the 10-year average of 2.6 million acres. Fires burning in the wildland-urban interface have resulted in...
Person: Hesseln, Rideout
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He...
Person: Pyne
Created Year: 1982
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Fire exclusion in wildlands during the last century has caused the excessive accumulation of fuels that has resulted in catastrophic fires. In spite of devastating losses from fire, human development continues to increase in the wildland-urban...
Person: Pruden, Brennan, Feary, Neuenschwander
Created Year: 1998
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the...
Person: Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Created Year: 1989
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safety databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new...
Person: Nodvin, Waldrop, Davi
Created Year: 1991
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
In this paper, several innovations to the firefighting process are summarized. Organizational innovations include the Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Initiative, common interagency emergency management procedures, and the National Interagency...
Person: McCleese, Nichols, Walton
Created Year: 1991
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Mass fires are likely to follow a nuclear attack. Since it is important to the civil defense program to be able to predict rate, duration, and extent of spread of such fires, the Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, issued a joint...
Person: Chandler, Storey, Tangren
Created Year: 1963
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
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Person: Phillips, George
Created Year: 1991
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS