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...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Delaney
Year: 2017
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
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...
Person: Campbell, Dennison, Butler
Year: 2017
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
One of the immediate challenges of wildfire management concerns threats to human safety and property in residential areas adjacent to non-cultivated vegetation. One approach for relieving this problem is to increase human community 'adaptiveness...
Person: Carroll, Paveglio
Year: 2016
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Given our fuels and topography, we rely a lot on engines, helicopters, and bulldozers to fight fire in the Bureau of Land Management.'
Person: Frederick
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Most of us don't know the 10 standard firefighting orders and 18 watch out situations, the '10 & 18,' by heart. Judging by our fatality reports and close calls, it shows.'
Person: Scholz
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The problem with relying too much on memorization of rules to keep us safe is that we are presupposing that a firefighter's mind will retrieve the appropriate piece of memorized information for any situation, even under...
Person: Sutton
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Providing nationwide leadership in the development, testing, analysis, standardization, and evaluation of equipment, materials, and procedures for the protection and management of national forests and grasslands is the mission...
Person: Paz
Year: 2008
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
This article examines the growing number of wildfires in the United States. Forest fires are being fueled by deadwood and debris that have been allowed to accumulate by the caretakers of the land. The use of computer modeling is aiding in the...
Person: Andrews, Finney, Fischetti
Year: 2007
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The year was 1915 and the forest Service's brief dalliance with Civil War blinkers and sunlight was a dismal failure (Coats 1984). Frustrated foresters needed to improve their ability to communicate, but radio technology...
Person: Ferranti
Year: 2008
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Having the right equipment for firefighting is not only necessary -- it's essential. Since 1954, the Forest Service has helped State agencies acquire usable, surplus equipment through the Federal Excess Personal Property (...
Person: Frey
Year: 2008
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS