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From the text...'The smokejumper program has always been very innovative, and this really is because the seven Forest Serice smokejumper bases are involved with the development work.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, Montana, US Forest Service, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'The plan was to parachute two military jumpers from a modified B-17, collect data and equipment from the Soviet ice station, and then extract the equipment and men using the Skyhook system...'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), Arctic, Washington, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'In closing, the para-cargo program is a proven cost-efficient, timely, and safe way to provide meals and suplies to firefighters in the field. Whatever firefighters need on the ground to do their job, they will received it through the para-cargo program.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, Idaho, fire management, smoke management
From the text: Firefighting, especially smokejumping, is an exercise in outlasting the uncomfortable. I think it has little to do with gender; rather it is each individual's assessment and subsequent reaction to a given situation.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighting personnel, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'A group of valiant men known as the Triple Nickles, the first African-American smokerjumpers, paved the way for so many in the smokejumping cadre...'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire injuries (humans), fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, mortality, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'The Klump Pump is a standard piece of equipment, outfitted with pump, hose, fittings, and foam. The idea was that it could be easily delivered to an incident and transported individually, by two- or three-unit trailers...'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'The mission was the same back then as it is today. The methods, tools, and rules for accomplishing that mission, however, were different back then than those of today.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, New Mexico, education, national forests, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'In the Forest Service, we developed the Missoula, MT, junior smokejumper program to educate children about fire ecology, fire management, and smokejumping in an exciting and interactive learning environment.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Outreach
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: firefighting personnel, wildfires, Montana, education, public information, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, education, fire management, smoke management
From the text ... 'One of the smokejumper program's defining characteristics is its commitment to innovation--a constant refinement of equipment and techniques that hearkens back to the program's earliest days.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management
Firefighters responding to wildland fires where surface litter and vegetation contain radiological contamination will receive a radiological dose by inhaling resuspended radioactive material in the smoke. This may increase their lifetime risk of contracting certain types of…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire injuries (humans), fire suppression, firefighting personnel, smoke effects, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, diseases, duff, health factors, litter, radiation, woody plants, South Carolina, fire management, smoke management, atmospheric dispersion, radioactive dose, radioecology, firefighters
Given the increase in wildfire intensity and frequency worldwide, prescribed burning is becoming a more common and widespread practice. Prescribed burning is a fire management tool used to reduce fuel loads for wildfire suppression purposes and occurs on an annual basis in many…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, health factors, particulates, pollution, Victoria, Australia, fire management, smoke management
Carbon footprint (CF) can be a key factor stimulating innovation while driving sustainable decision making. The air transport sector and wildfires are considered to be relevant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Among the available resources for wildfire suppression,…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: consumption, helicopter, C - carbon, environmental accounting, fire equipment, aerial fire suppression, Spain, fire management area, air quality
In many areas of the United States, prescribed burning near highways is considered too risky because of the potential for smoke to obscure the highway. In one area in Florida, prescribed fire is used to reduce the risks of smoke related impacts to Interstate 95. The St Johns…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: visibility, Florida, highways
Most of climate change is understood in terms of global-scale warming caused by carbon dioxide released from anthropogenic combustion of fossil fuels. Climate models predict slow but steady warming over the next five to ten decades. Developing fire and smoke management…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, smoke management, climate change, arctic warming
Air pollution is an environmental health concern throughout the world, and is responsible for an estimated 1 out of 8 deaths. As a common component of air pollution, particulate matter (PM) is one of six criteria air pollutants regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, biomass burning, air pollution, wood smoke, human health, firefighters
It was August 30, 1987; the summer was drawing to a close. After 3 years of drought and a hot summer, fuel conditions in northern California and southern Oregon were primed for fires. That evening, dry thunderstorms pounded that region with more than 1,600 lightning strikes. I…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: firefighting personnel, C - carbon, fire case histories, fire size, fire suppression, wildfires, Oregon, climate change, education, fire management, forest management, smoke management
'First load to the box.' Calmly, but with urgency, these words rolled through the intercom while I was in the loft working on a project for the afternoon. As the alarm sounded through the building, I knew that meant we had a fire call, and without hesitation, I dropped…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smokejumpers, firefighting, wildfires, Arctic, education, fire management, smoke management
On May 19, 2014, during unusually dry weather, a fire started in a popular recreational area near Funny River Road in the Kenai, near Newberry's home. The wind pushed it through dry grasses and into insect-killed stands of spruce. By the end of the day, fire had consumed 2,500…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: Funny River Fire, UAS - Unmanned Aircraft System, fire fighting, fire case histories, aerial fire suppression, wildfires, drones, fire management, forest management