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Padamsey, Wallace, Liebenberg, Cross, Oosthuizen
Background: In Western Australia, the issue of bushfires (wildfires) poses a persistent health risk to both volunteer and career forestry firefighters, populations that have been historically understudied.
Aims: This descriptive qualitative study…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Clarke, Cirulis, Borchers-Arriagada, Storey, Ooi, Haynes, Bradstock, Price, Penman
Fire management aims to change fire regimes. However, the challenge is to provide the optimal balance between the mitigation of risks to life and property, while ensuring a healthy environment and the protection of other key values in any given…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Yeste-Lizán, Gomez-Heras, García-Rodríguez, Pérez-López, Carcavilla, Ortega-Becerril
Wildfires are widely recognized as a cause of mechanical damage to rocks. Nevertheless, previous research has neglected how wildfires might impact sport climbing areas. In Spain, two large wildfires affected two climbing areas between 2020 and 2021…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Walsh, Sargent, Cevik-Compiegne, Roberts, Palfrey, Gooyers-Bourke, Vardoulakis, Laachir
The “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019/2020 in Australia generated smoke that persisted for over three months, mainly affecting Eastern Australia. Most communication strategies focused on the fire itself, revealing a knowledge gap in effective…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
[from the text] California is facing an unprecedented and growing forest and wildfire crisis. Decades of fire exclusion, coupled with the increasing impacts of climate change, have dramatically increased wildfires’ size and intensity throughout the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Leduc, Giga, Fletcher, Young, Dorman
Critical to effective fire management is the protection and preparedness of highly trained wildland firefighters who routinely face extreme physical and psychological demands. To date, there is limited scientific evidence of psychosocial education…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Increase in infected corneal ulcerations in dogs during the northern Colorado’s 2020 wildfire season
Objective
In the fall of 2020, Colorado experienced the two largest wildfires in state history. The smoke blanketed the college town of Fort Collins, Colorado, the location of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University (CSU-VTH).…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Flores, Fox, Iverson, Venette, Conley, Jahn, Howes, Haire
The USDA Forest Service anticipated that COVID-19 outbreaks among fire management personnel would potentially impact the agency’s ability to maintain the readiness of the wildland fire system and to respond to large complex wildfires across the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Jones, Furlaud, Williamson, Johnston, Bowman
Savanna fire management is a topic of global debate, with early dry season burning promoted as a large-scale emissions reduction opportunity. To date, discussions have centred on carbon abatement efficacy, biodiversity and cultural benefits and/or…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Flores, Haire
In 2016, the US Forest Service initiated small-group safety discussions among members of its wildland firefighting organisation. Known as the Life First National Engagement Sessions, the discussions presented an opportunity for wildland firefighters…
Type: Document
Year: 2022