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From the text... 'An ideal forest fire detection system would detect fires the instant they start, day or night, under any condition of visibility. Additionally, it could distinguish potentially dangerous fires from those that would not concern fire suppression forces. Although…
Person:
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conservation, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, remote sensing, smoke behavior, wildfires

In 1983 the most severe fire in Victorian mountain forests for over forty years killed extensive areas of highly productive eucalypt forest, requiring a large scale timber salvage and forest rehabilitation program. The scheduling of these programs was dependent upon a rapid and…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, arthropods, artificial regeneration, ash, Australia, backfires, catastrophic fires, crown fires, crown scorch, decay, droughts, Eucalyptus regnans, fine fuels, fire control, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, fungi, ground fires, hardwood forests, insects, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, overstory, photography, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, salvage, spot fires, understory vegetation, Victoria, wildfires, wind

A cinematographic film of a tornado which formed over a severe bushfire in 1962 in Victoria has been analysed. Notable findings are that a flame rose in the core to a height of 260 feet, that the core velocities were up to 205 m.p.h. vertically, at least 20-30 m.p.h.…
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: flame height, flame length, wind, Australia, fire whirls, blowup fires, tornadoes, blowup, climatology, fire management, fire weather, gases, ignition, overstory, photography, remote sensing, topography, trees, Victoria, weather observations, wildfires