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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Nakazawa, Cain, Kenyon, Munson, Cooke
The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau hosted this public workshop to promote the use of multilingual emergency alerting. The workshop included presentations related to the multilingual capabilities of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Mutch, Davis, Bucks
The "Wildland Fires" chapter incorporates the latest information on developments in the field based on research findings and real-world events.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long
The impact of wildland fire smoke on air quality and health is an issue growing in importance to many health officials across the country, as well as federal, state and local decision-makers. This webinar gives an overview of EPA’s tools and resources available to provide public…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Broyles, Butler, Kardous
Wildland fire fighters use many tools and equipment that produce noise levels that may be considered hazardous to hearing. This study evaluated 174 personal dosimetry measurements on 156 wildland fire fighters conducting various training and fire suppression tasks. Noise…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leach
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The National Weather Service (NWS) Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) has been developed to provide a national standard Analysis of Record (AoR) for large scale verification and bias-correction efforts. The RTMA…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Henn, Butler, Li, Sussell, Hale, Broyles, Reinhardt
Carbon monoxide (CO) exposure levels encountered by wildland firefighters (WLFs) throughout their work shift can change considerably within a few minutes due to the varied tasks that are performed and the changing environmental and fire conditions encountered throughout the day…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Broyles, Kardous, Shaw, Krieg
Wildland firefighters are exposed to numerous noise sources that may be hazardous to their hearing. This study examined the noise exposure profiles for 264 wildland firefighters across 15 job categories. All 264 firefighters completed questionnaires to assess their use of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belval, Wei, Bevers
Wildland firefighting requires managers to make decisions in complex decision environments that hold many uncertainties; these decisions need to be adapted dynamically over time as fire behavior evolves. Models used in firefighting decisions should also have the capability to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Moore, Lahm
The Advanced Fire Environment Learning Unit (AFELU) will host three speakers to talk about Predictive Services comparison tools (Robert Ziel, Alaska Fire Science Consortium), predicting fire behavior in Alaska (Chris Moore, Alaska Fire Service), and smoke tools (Pete Lahm, US…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cascio
This webinar presented by Wayne Cascio June 21, 2017 highlighted updates to the Wildfire Smoke Guide, as well as the Smoke Sense app, which is a mobile application that gets air quality information to people impacted by wildfire smoke, and helps those affected learn ways to…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Berrens
Recent growth in the frequency and severity of US wildfires has led to more wildfire smoke and increased public exposure to harmful air pollutants. Populations exposed to wildfire smoke experience a variety of negative health impacts, imposing economic costs on society. However…
Year: 2017
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
Butler, Marsh, Domitrovich, Helmkamp
Wildland fire fighting is a high-risk occupation requiring considerable physical and psychological demands. Multiple agencies publish fatality summaries for wildland firefighters; however, the reported number and types vary. At least five different surveillance systems capture…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
ince the 1990s, USDA Forest Service employees and leaders have taken steps to improve the agency's safety record (USDA Forest Service 2018), resulting in a declining number of fatalities since 2010. Yet wildland firefighter entrapments have persisted (NIFC 2018), despite the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
The culture of the USDA Forest Service has been shaped by the maxim 'Certainly it can be done' (Pinchot 1947), borrowed from the Coast Guard by the agency's first Chief, Gifford Pinchot (1905-10). From the moment employees joined the Forest Service beginning in 1905, they…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page, Butler
Wildland firefighters work in complex and dynamic environments, with many dangers that pose serious threats to their safety. Falling snags and rocks, steep and rugged terrain, and rapid increases in fire behavior are just some of the dangers that affect wildland firefighters.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harbour
Fires that occur outside buildings, improvements, and structures, whether fueled by grass, brush, forest, timber, or other materials, are the wildland fires we deal with in the fire service. A wildland fire can take many forms: thousands of acres of trees on fire; the purposeful…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nguyen, Schlesinger, Han, Gür, Carlson
Quantifying factors that affect evacuation decision making remains a challenging task. Progress is crucial for developing predictive models of collective behavior and for designing effective policies to guide the action of populations during wildfires. We conduct a controlled…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adetona, Adetona, Gogal, Diaz-Sanchez, Rathbun, Naeher
Objective: A repeated measures study was used to assess the effect of work tasks on select proinflammatory biomarkers in firefighters working at prescribed burns. Methods: Ten firefighters and two volunteers were monitored for particulate matter and carbon monoxide on workdays,…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rappold, Reyes, Pouliot, Cascio, Diaz-Sanchez
Identifying communities vulnerable to adverse health effects from exposure to wildfire smoke may help prepare responses, increase the resilience to smoke and improve public health outcomes during smoke days. We developed a Community Health-Vulnerability Index (CHVI) based on…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Cova, Dennison
Wildfire evacuation triggers refer to prominent geographic features used in wildfire evacuation practices, and when a fire crosses a feature, an evacuation warning is issued to the communities or firefighters in the path of the fire. The existing wildfire trigger modeling…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Investigating the application of a hybrid space discretisation for urban scale evacuation simulation
The devastating effects of wildfires cannot be overlooked; these include massive resettlement of people, destruction of property and loss of lives. The considerable distances over which wild fires spread and the rates at which these fires can spread is a major concern as this…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McLennan, Ryan, Bearman, Toh
Wildfires pose a serious threat to life in many countries. For police, fire and emergency services authorities in most jurisdictions in North America and Australia evacuation is now the option that is preferred overwhelmingly. Wildfire evacuation modeling can assist authorities…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Butler, Page, Freeborn
Wildland firefighters in the United States (US) are exposed to a variety of hazards while performing their jobs in America’s wildlands. Although the threats posed by vehicle accidents, aircraft mishaps and heart attacks claim the most lives (Figure 1), situations where…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Butler
Since the introduction and adoption of a centralized suppression-oriented wildland firefighting paradigm in the US wildland firefighters have been employed to protect and manage various natural and human resources. Both wildland fire scientists and firefighters have long noted…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES