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"Hazard" is a measure of that part of fire danger which is dependent on the fuels available for burning and their relative amount, class, character, moisture content and condition. The term is also used for the inflammable material constituting a threat of either special suppression difficulty or likelihood of ignition because of its location (Anonymous, 1953, 1960). Though living vegetation will also burn in an on-going fire, it is the dead organic material consisting of fallen leaves, pine needles, bark chips. dead grass, twigs, branches, stumps. loss etc. in which the fire is likely to start and which constitutes the real fire hazard. The inflammability of such fuels denotes the susceptibility of ignition due to the presence and activity of an ignition cause. Thus, generally speaking wherever risk (presence and activity of ignition causes) and hazard (inflammable fuel) are present, a situation of fire danger exists. If either risk or hazard is absent, there will be no fire. However, in most forest areas both risk and hazard are present in varying degrees. For effective fire prevention, reduction of hazard is, therefore, as important as reduction of risk. Hazard reduction refers to any treatment of inflammable materials that results in diminishing the chances of fire starting and spreading in them (Anonymous, 1953).
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- Asia
- bark
- evergreens
- fire danger rating
- fire hazard reduction
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fire resistant plants
- fire suppression
- firebreaks
- flammability
- forest management
- fuel accumulation
- fuel management
- grasses
- ignition
- India
- leaves
- litter
- moisture
- needles
- organic matter
- slash
- thinning
- weeds
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