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Estimating Smoke Burden and Novel Tools to Manage Impacts in Population

A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Person: Rappold
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke impact, smoke exposure, health impacts, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter

Simulation of Forecast-Based Interventions to Reduce the Health and Economic Burden During a Wildfire Episode

A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Person: Rappold
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: PM2.5, health effects, smoke forecasting, asthma, heart failure

Fireworld: how a firefighter's experience informed a career focused on climate change

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…
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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

Funny River Fire

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…
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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