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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Schaitberger
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beighley
From the text ... 'In order to assure safe fireline operations, firefighters need processes to evaluate fireline safety that are measurable, consistent, and transferable.... There should never be any uncertainty about the location of safety zones and excape routes, the adequacy…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason
From the text ... 'The LCES system approach to fireline safety is an outgrowth of my analysis of fatalities and near-misses for over 20 years of active fireline suppression duties. LCES simply refocuses on the essential elements of the standard Fire Orders. Its use should be…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis, Chandler
From the text ... 'Vortex turbulence consists of a pair of miniature whirlwinds trailing from the wingtips of any aircraft in flight.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sime
Instructions and checklist related to the care and maintenance of backpack-style fire pumps.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Despain
Fire line intensity (kW/m) in woody vegetation crowns is one of the parameters useful in assessing many fire effects. However, crown fire intensity is very difficult to measure. Temperature and time can be measured with a variety of sensors such as thermistors and thermocouples…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Stocks
The 22nd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference featured a special session on selected aspects of the wildland fire research carried out during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), co-chaired by M.E. Alexander of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and R.A.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee
From the text ... 'Group cohesion can mean the difference between life and death. ...Right when a type 2 crew is first mobilized, the crew boss should openly acknowledge group cohesion as a weakness. ...We should use prefire opportunities to help crew members get better…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell, Dennison, Butler
Escape routes are essential components of wildland firefighter safety, providing pre-defined pathways to a safety zone. Among the many factors that affect travel rates along an escape route, landscape conditions such as slope, low-lying vegetation density, and ground surface…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delaney
Contracting helps Federal fire managers get things done. The Federal fire organizations contract for supplies, services, and-in some cases-construction and specialized services such as architecture and engineering. From buying Nomex, fusees, driptorch fuel, and meals-ready-to-…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by the agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2016 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and Application Committee…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rohde
I recently completed a study providing insight into critical decisions by command officers on some of California's most notorious wildfires in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). My study focused on the first several hours of response to the fires, a period of time when…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viegas, Pita
Canyons or ridges are associated with a large number of fatal accidents produced during forest fires all over the world. A contribution to the understanding of fire behaviour in these terrain conditions is given in this paper. The basic geometrical parameters of the canyon…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wiitala
This guide contains instructions for using PROBACRE. PROBACRE is a computer program developed for purposes of assessing the long term risk associated with the level of protection provided to an area. The risk of concern centers on the chance that a protection area over time will…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waigl
This research addresses improvements to the detection and characterization of active wildfires in Alaska with satellite-based sensors. The VIIRS I-band Fire Detection Algorithm for High Latitudes (VIFDAHL) was developed and evaluated against existing active fire products from…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woo, Hui, Gan, Kim
The May 2016 wildfire in Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada—the costliest wildfire disaster in Canadian history—led to an areawide evacuation by road and air. Traffic count and flight data were used to assess the characteristics of the evacuation, including estimates of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Your agency needs to increase fuel treatments and prescribed fire, but how do you communicate this to the public in the best possible way? This paper by Dr. Eric Toman and colleagues sought to answer that question in four different states: Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Oregon.…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haynes, Madsen
The increasing frequency and intensity of wildland and wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires have become a significant concern in many parts of the United States and around the world. To address and manage this WUI fire risk, local fire departments around the country have begun…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Bilskie
Prescribed fires are increasingly being used to reduce hazardous fuels, a major objective of the National Fire Plan. Despite advancing technology and ever-improving models, fire managers still find it challenging to determine the right time for a prescribed burn.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reinhardt, Ottmar
Extensive measurements of smoke exposure among wildland firefighters are summarized, showing that firefighters can be exposed to significant levels of carbon monoxide and respiratory irritants, including formaldehyde, acrolein, and respirable particulate matter. Benzene was also…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Putnam, Butler
Fire shelters are critical safety items required for use by most wildland firefighters in the United States. Most testing of fire shelters, clothing and other personal protective equipment (PPE) has been limited to prescribed fires or laboratory based studies. This study reports…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS