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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ramberg
From the Introduction:'The objective of EDST 1710, Firing and Line Holding Devices, is to improve safety and efficiency in prescribed burning and wildfire control through the development of equipment for firing and line holding. There has been a need in the past to burn out and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text: 'In summary, the coupling of a burning prescription which could deliver adequate fire intensity with gelled gasoline helitorch ignition to overcome some of the fuel arrangement and topographic problems resulted in a generally successful rehabilitation effort at…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Denney
From the text: 'Remember, an aluma-gel mix can 'make or break' a helitorch operation. It is suggested for the inexperienced to invite someone knowledgeable to assist on the heliport and aid in training your mixing crew. Timing is very important. It takes practice for a mixing…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Rich
From the Summary: 'Helitorch burning is a complex system of organization consisting of three subsystems: (1) HELITORCH ON THE GROUND, (2) HELITORCH OVER BURNING BLOCK, and (3) MANAGEMENT OF HELITORCH BEFORE ARRIVAL AT BURN SITE AND AFTER IGNITION. In each subsystem events have…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lait
Text: 'Fire suppression offers the fire manager little or no time to prepare personnel for tasks which require considerable logistical preparation. Usually these aspects such as air tanker loading and retardant mixing are contracted out and are very expensive. Techniques such as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese
From the text: 'As the use of prescribed fire grows, the demand for more efficient and effective methods of ignition will grow with it. Once the opportunities for fire use are recognized, program managers will have to seek more effective ways to keep up with the increasing…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bentley
Command and control of Champion's helitorch operations have so far amounted to the ignition boss being located on the ground. The alternative forms of command and control, which include ignition boss in chase helicopter or ignition boss in ignition helicopter, have not been used…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer
From the text: 'These increases in feelings of accomplishments or job security do not, however, come without a price. What is the price? Increased exposure to accidents, loss of lives or injury to your personnel, and increased workload to name a few.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kendrick
From the text: 'The pilot on any aerial ignition operation is presented with an extremely difficult task. It has been CDF's experience that having a trained helitack captain on board, acting as the lighting supervisor, reduces significantly the burdon on the pilot, while adding…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bohannan
From the text: 'Helitorch, waterbucket, and long-line flying offer some of the most difficult and hazardous flying one can do with a helicopter. The FAA, Part 133, allows for only 'essential crew members' to be on board during external load operations. An Ignition Boss/Fire Boss…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lasko
From the text: 'In summary, a number of command and control alternatives are available for use with aerial ignition systems. Due to the variety of situations encountered in the field, the burn boss must select the alternative that matches the situation and will provide for a…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
From the Summary: 'There are several reasons to use helitorch ignition instead of hand ignition. Three primary reasons are safety of ground ignition personnel, cost effectiveness, and ability to meet resource objectives.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lafferty
From the Introduction: 'In British Columbia several aerial ignition systems are used: the gas/diesel/JP-4 drip torch, the gelled gasoline helitorch, and the aerial ignition device (AID). This paper deals mainly with the experiences of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. (MB) and Forest…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter
From the Conclusions ... 'The coordination of the helitorch operations, such as support services, unit ignition procedures, and timing, is of a critical nature. It is imperative that a smooth flow of effort be immediately established and maintained throughout a burn. Oversights…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lionberger
From the Introduction: 'Aerial ignition, as a part of prescribed fire and wildfire management, is rapidly growing in popularity. Since the early 1970's when development began, many improvements have been made by both the private sector and government agencies. The 'flying drip…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The magnitude of prescribed fire use has greatly increased in the past 10 years. With this expanded use of fire came a need for aerial ignition devices and techniques. This paper reports the preliminary findings of a nationwide survey of active aerial ignition prfactitioners.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman
From the Introduction ... ' As prescribed fire became more widely understood and applied in the U.S. in the decades following World War II, forest managers routinely used aircraft for various purposes in prescribed fire operations. In the U.S., this most often was the helicopter…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the document ... 'Premo Plastics Engineering Ltd., the manufacturers of the PFRC Aerial ignition Device MKII have made several significant modifications resulting in the Premo MKIII Aerial Ignition System. Development has been oriented towards an automated hopper feed…
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel, Mutch
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lotan
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quintilio, Bisgrove, Van
This paper reviews the unique aerial ignition device developed originally in Australia and the chronological work in Canada that eventually produced the Aerial Ignition Device and the Helitorch. It is of interest to note that the project has gone full circle in that Australia…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian/United States cooperative mass fire behavior and atmospheric environmental impact study
Over the past four years scientists have cooperatively monitored fire behavior and smoke chemistry, on a number of large prescribed fires in the Province of Ontario. Primary cooperating agencies include Forestry Canada, the United States Forest Service, the National Aeronautics…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Fenton
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
Alaska Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems Integration (ACUASI) Deputy Director Ro Bailey gave a presentation on the University of Alaska's history and capabilities with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the Interagency Dispatchers meeting March 26, 2014 at the North Pole Hotel…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES