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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…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, heat effects, mortality, nutrition, smoke effects, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Forest fuels reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management. This article reports an analysis of focus group interviews with wildland-urban interface residents at sites selected to provide variation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: environmental management, forest management, forest, public relations, fuel management, air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, hardwood forest, land use, pine forests, escaped prescribed fires, public information, smoke effects
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on air quality can assist land, fire, and air resource managers with fire and smoke planning, and their efforts to explain to others the science behind fire-related program policies and practices to improve air quality.…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, wildfire, biomass emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke dispersion, smoke management, biomass, burning permits, chemistry, combustion, cover, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, flame length, fuel management, health factors, heat effects, land management, NFP - National Fire Plan, O3 - ozone, particulates, pollution, public information, roads, smoke effects, soil management, soils, wildland fire