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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The following table shows how safety violations identified by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) during its investigation of the Thirtymile Fire accident correspond to action items called for under the USDA Forest Service's Thirtymile…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'With few exceptions, transition fires are our tragedy fires, the fires where most of our entrapments and deployments occur.... The Ten Standard Fire Orders are not an obstacle to getting the job done; instead, they are the way to get the job done right.... On…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rains, Hubbard
From the text ... 'Our Nation faced the tremendous challenge of reducing the growing risk to lives, property, and natural resources from uncharacteristically severe wildland fires in the W-UI. No single agency is capable of rising to the challenge alone. The only feasible…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Federal, state, tribal and local governments are making unprecedented efforts to reduce the buildup of fuels and restore forests and rangelands to healthy conditions. Yet, needless red tape and lawsuits delay effective implementation of forest health projects…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Logan, Stocks, Wotton, Amiro, Todd
In this study we use historical relationships between weather, the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System components and ecozone area burned in Canada on a monthly basis in tandem with output from GCMs from the Canadian Climate Centre and the United Kingdom Hadley Centre to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Forest fires are one of the major threats to the environment, to socio-economic activity and also to human life. Throughout history several generations have attempted to understand the role played by fire in the forest and to manage it. The scientific community with its…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Driessen
Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sell, Livingston
The purpose of this study was to generate a physical fitness profile of an interagency hotshot crew mid-way through the wildland fire season. Twenty interagency hotshot crew firefighters completed measures of body composition, aerobic fitness, hamstring flexibility, muscular…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keller
From the text ... 'In two recent incidents that occurred with different fire agencies in separate parts of the country, fire vehicles that were parked in the black and left unattended caught fire. At the time of ignitions, the focus was elsewhere: both crews were engaged in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rains
This is a key note presentation by Michael Rains, presented at the Fire and Aquatic Ecosystem Workshop, held April 22-24, 2002 in Boise, Idaho. This presentation outlines the fundamental premise, long-term goals, key points, current and proposed funding, progress, and challenges…
Year: 2002
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Henderson, Johnston
Exposure to forest fire smoke is episodic, which makes its health effects challenging to study. We review the newest contributions to a growing literature on acute respiratory outcomes.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams
From the text ... 'Wildland fire is a high-risk, high-consequence business. It is influenced by high social expectations and a low political tolerance for failure. Our environment is surrounded by uncertainty and danger. It is controlled more and more by our ability to measure,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blakeslee
Forests of the W-UI exist in a people-dominated landscape. As such, their existence and character are highly sculpted by the values, perceptions, and motivations of people. They exist in spatial and temporal dimensions similar in part but often dissimilar from those experienced…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fastabend
From the text ... 'The Kenai Peninsula Borough and cooperating agencies developed and implemented an integrated Spruce Bark Beetle Mitigation Program.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
From the text ... 'Severe fire seasons and evolving insights into land and resource management have generated a series of recent initiatives for wildland firemanagement.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spear, Cannell
A study was performed at two air tanker/retardant bases to determine the mixmaster?s exposure to dust derived from mixing dry fire retardant compounds. Personal sampling for both inhalable and respirable dust was conducted while the mixmaster mixed fire retardant compounds to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maclean
A writer's reflection on the stories of fatal fire - and why we must remember.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randall, Harr
Prescribed fire is one of a suite of tools used to manage landscapes to achieve specific management goals. Safety in using prescribed fire is of utmost importance. To conduct a safe and effective prescribed fire requires not only a burn plan and clear lines of communication, but…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keller
Chances are good that, if you're reading this, you've had experience operating and parking vehicles in 'the black.' Likewise, you're probably well aware that 'the black' refers to the combustible material or vegetation that has gone through ignition, burning, and smoldering…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
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 (e.g., statistics on recent wildland firefighter fatality trends, implications of the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria, Australia).
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES