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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Suzuki, Manzello
Firebrand showers are known to result in massive destruction in large outdoor fires. A key missing piece is how these ignition scenarios may be influenced by firebrand showers in conjunction with external radiant heat that would be generated by nearly combustibles. The combined…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Prosser
The intensity and frequency of forest fires is increasing across the globe due to climate change. Additives are often added to make water more effective at extinguishing fire and preventing re-ignition. This study investigated the toxicity of nine different firefighting water…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Isaac, Toukhsati, Klein, Di Benedetto, Kennedy
Objective
This study aimed to establish the prevalence and to identify predictors of insomnia, nightmares and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in wildfire survivors.
Method
A total of 126 (23 males, 102 females, and 1 nonbinary individual, Mage = 52 years, SD = 14.4)…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niyatiwatchanchai, Pothirat, Chaiwong, Liwsrisakun, Phetsuk, Duangjit, Choomuang
We aim to assess small airway dysfunction, spirometry, health-related quality of life (HR-QoL), and inflammatory biomarkers between the wildland firefighters and healthy controls. Lung function including impulse oscillometry (IOS) and spirometry, HR-QoL measured by the 36-Item…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Urban
Firebrand spotting is a major cause for structure losses in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. When firebrands land nearby and accumulate into groups or piles, they can act as a more competent ignition source compared to single firebrands. While experimental studies have…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell, Gwynne, Ronchi, Kalogeropoulos, Rein
The hazards posed by a wildfire increase significantly when it approaches the wildland–urban interface. Evacuation of rural communities is frequently considered by local authorities and residents. In this context, evacuation triggers are locations that when reached by the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mastorakos, Gkantonas, Efstathiou, Giusti
A stochastic model motivated by the Lagrangian transported probability density function method for turbulent reacting flows and the cellular automata approach for forest fires was put together to simulate propagation of fires in terrains with inhomogeneous composition. In…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Song
Flame radiation is one of the important causes of wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires. PMMA, pine needle and pine wood are the most common fuels in WUI fires, but the radiant distance effect on the flaming ignitions as well as the subsequent burning behavior is still poorly…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noah, Worden, Rebuli, Jaspers
Purpose of Review: To review the recent literature on the effects of wildfire smoke (WFS) exposure on asthma and allergic disease, and on potential mechanisms of disease.
Recent Findings: Spatiotemporal modeling and increased ground-level monitoring data are allowing a more…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garg, Wang, Oakes, Bellini, Gollner
During a wildland fire event, firefighters often receive significant exposure to smoke consisting of particulate matter (PM) and gaseous emissions. Major respiratory and cardiovascular health concerns are related to inhalation of smoke and respiratory protection (RP), such as…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gutierrez, Lagunas
Facing an increase in the size and complexity of wildland interface fires, water utilities must pay more attention to protecting vital infrastructures during potentially catastrophic wildfires.
Water utilities can mitigate the impacts of wildfires by using a three-pronged…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garbis, Cox, Orttung
Increasingly frequent wildfires are affecting residents in the wildland-urban interface in Interior Alaska. How might fire communicators convey risk and crisis information to meet growing concerns about wildfire impacts among a diverse audience of residents? This research draws…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ronchi, Wahlqvist, Ardinge, Rohaert, Gwynne, Rein, Mitchell, Kalogeropoulos, Kinateder, Bénichou, Kuligowski, Kimball
This paper introduces a protocol for the verification of multi-physics wildfire evacuation models, including a set of tests used to ensure that the conceptual modelling representation of each modelling layer is accurately implemented, as well as the interactions between…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elhami-Khorasani, Kinateder, Lemiale, Manzello, Marom, Marquez, Suzuki, Theodori, Wang, Wong
Large outdoor fires such as wildfires, wildland urban interface (WUI) fires, urban fires, and informal settlement fires have received increased attention in recent years. In order to develop effective emergency plans to protect people from threats associated with these events,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
East, AghaKouchak, Caprarelli, Filippelli, Florindo, Luce, Rajaram, Russell, Santín, Santos
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barbosa, Reis, Raposo, Rodrigues, Viegas
Background: Jet fires and boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions (BLEVEs) are potential events when a vessel containing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is exposed to fire. Events involving domestic LPG tanks have occurred at wildland–urban interface areas in Portugal, the USA…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quarles, Standohar-Alfano, Hedayati, Gorham
Background: Embers, also known as firebrands, are the leading cause of building ignition during wildland–urban fires. This is attributed both to direct ignition of material on, in, or attached to the building, and indirect ignition where they ignite vegetation or other…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Almeida, Viegas, Ribeiro
The ninth International Conference on Forest Fire Research, together with the 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit was held in November 2022. This joint conference brought together several hundred presentations in the field of wildfire research. This special issue of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to the nation’s natural…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hwang, Chong, Zhang, Agnew, Xu, Li, Xu
As wildfire risks have elevated due to climate change, the health risks that toxicants from fire smoke pose to wildland firefighters have been exacerbated. Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has reclassified wildland firefighters’ occupational…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Belval, Bayham, Calkin, Stonesifer, Flores
Increasing wildfire activity, decreasing workforce capacity, and growing systemic strain may result in an interagency wildfire-response system less capable of protecting landscapes and communities. Further, increased workloads will likely increase hazards to fire personnel and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Chi
Background
: Climate change impacts humans and society both directly and indirectly. Alaska, for example, is warming twice as fast as the global mean, and researchers are starting to grapple with the varied and interconnected ways in which climate change affects the people there…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Lovreglio, Kuligowski, Cova, Nilsson, Zhao
To develop effective wildfire evacuation plans, it is crucial to study evacuation decision-making and identify the factors affecting individuals’ choices. Statistic models (e.g., logistic regression) are widely used in the literature to predict household evacuation decisions,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Khan
Wildfires kill and injure people, destroy residences, pollute the air, and cause economic loss. In this paper, a low-power Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensor network is developed, which automatically detects fires in forests and sends the location to a central monitoring…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES