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Wildland firefighters are repeatedly exposed to elevated levels of wildland fire smoke (WFS) while protecting lives and properties from wildland fires. Studies reporting personal exposure concentrations of air pollutants in WFS during fire suppression or prescribed burn…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CO - carbon monoxide, black carbon, trace metals, firefighters, Ohio, firefighter health
The Thomas Fire ignited on December 5, 2017 and burned nearly 300,000 acres of land in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties until January 12, 2018, making it the largest wildfire in California history at the time. During the fire, a persistent plume of ash, smoke, and soot…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Thomas Fire, Santa Barbara Channel, ash, phytoplankton, marine ecology
Fires burning across the Amazon in the summer of 2019 attracted global attention for the widespread destruction of natural ecosystems and regional smoke production. Using a combination of satellite fire observations and atmospheric modeling, Nawaz and Henze (2020, https://doi.…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: public health, Brazil, air pollution, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, human health, health impacts
Forest fires are one of the major environmental issues globally. In Nepal, substantial amounts of forest biomass and carbon are lost due to fire. Nepal’s high value lowland forests are particularly vulnerable to fire. However, there are limited studies on the estimation of…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Nepal, atmosphere, density, biomass, burnt area, burned area, greenhouse gases, carbon emissions, forest fires, fuel consumption
In order to meet preidentified objectives, prescribed burns are lit under specific conditions to produce desirable results such as favorable plant response, healthy forest and rangeland conditions for grazing and wildlife habitat, silvicultural treatments, indigenous cultural…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: NWFSC - Northwest Fire Science Consortium, pile burning, broadcast burning
There has been an increasing interest in the economic health cost from smoke exposure from wildfires in the past 20 years, particularly in the north-western USA that is reflected in an emergent literature. In this review, we provide an overview and discussion of studies since…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: BenMAP Community Edition, health impacts, literature review, Canada
Wildfire frequency and severity are increasing in many locations around the world. Wildfires emit particles and trace gases that are harmful to public health. In this talk, I will share results from several projects around the world that are evaluating the impact that wildfire…
Person: Marlier
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: Indonesia, air quality, public health, air pollution, remote sensing, morbidity, drought, climate change, land management, wildfires, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
Reliable predictions of emissions from wildland fires are a key element of smoke management programs. Emission factors (the amount of pollutants produced per amount of fuel consumed) are used in models to estimate the composition of smoke. Over the past two decades, laboratory…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality, fuel bed, flaming, smoldering, emission factors, wildfire
The Fire Environment Continuing Education SubCommittee presents the 2020 Fall Fire Environment Post Season Lessons Learned Webinar
Topics will include:
Satellite-derived data
WildfireSAFE
Tips for Remote fire analysis assignments
Person: Lindley, Ziel, Teske, Jolly, Law
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: remote sensing, satellite data, fire detection, air quality, smoke dispersion, IA - initial attack, social media, fire management, risk management, WildfireSAFE, lessons learned, fire environment, community preparedness
Wildfires, which are becoming more frequent and intense in many countries, pose serious threats to human health. To determine health impacts and provide public health messaging, satellite-based smoke plume data are sometimes used as a proxy for directly measured particulate…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: air pollution, wildfires, exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology, environmental health, human health, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
Trace analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during wildfires is imperative for environmental and health risk assessment. The use of gas sampling devices mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to chemically sample air during wildfires is of great interest because…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Camp Fire, VOC - volatile organic compounds, wildfires, micro preconcentrators, environmental sampling, mobile VOC sampling
In response to wildfire-related air quality issues as well as those associated with winter wood stove use and prescribed and agricultural burning, Clean Air Methow’s Clean Air Ambassador program established a community air monitoring network (CAMN) to provide geospatially…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildfire smoke, air quality, clean air monitoring network, community science, Washington
Objectives: To determine the impact of bushfires on children’s physical activity.
Design: Natural experiment comparing device-measured physical activity and air quality index data for schools exposed and not exposed to the Australian bushfires.
Methods: Participants were drawn…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, physical activity, youth, bushfire, wildfires, pollution, air quality, children
KEY POINTS - Wildland firefighters do not wear respiratory protection while working long hours and can be exposed to elevated concentrations of smoke. There is very limited research on long-term health of wildland firefighters from smoke exposure across an entire career. New…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfire, firefighters, outdoor workers, PM - particulate matter, health effects, smoke exposure
[from the text] The danger of catastrophic wildfires is increasing around the globe, with large fires occurring in Australia, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Portugal, Russia, as well as in the United States over the past decade. A major driver globally is climate change, which is…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, fire frequency, public health, PM - particulate matter, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, wildfire smoke exposure, wildfires
An intimate knowledge of aerosol transport is essential in reducing the uncertainty of the impacts of aerosols on cloud development. Datasets from the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement platform in the Southern Great Plains region (ARM‐SGP) and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: boundary layer, aerosols, aerosol-cloud interaction, chemistry, biomass burning, climatology, concentration, C - carbon
Fire omission and commission errors, and the accuracy of fire radiative power (FRP) from satellite moderate-resolution impede the studies on fire regimes and FRP-based fire emissions estimation. In this study, we compared the accuracy between the extensively used 1-km fire…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire omission, commission errors, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, Asia, fire regimes, fire detection
As the need for wildfire detection increases, research on wildfire smoke detection combining low-cost cameras and deep learning technology is increasing. Camera-based wildfire smoke detection is inexpensive, allowing for a quick detection, and allows a smoke to be checked by the…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: LSTM - long short-term memory, wildfires, smoke detection, YOLOv3, teacher-student framework, smoke-tube
The summer of 2017 in the Calabria Region (South Italy) was an exceptional wildfire season with the largest area burned by wildfires in the last 11 years (2008-2019). The equivalent black carbon (EBC) and carbon monoxide (CO) measurements, recorded at the high-altitude Global…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: black carbon, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting, CO - carbon monoxide, cigarettes, ecosystem, Italy, human health
The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires poses human health risks, especially for those within burnt regions. The potential health effects of fire ash on farmworkers in orchards via inhalation exposure after fire is rarely studied. After the 2017 Thomas Fire, in…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): California
Keywords: arsenic, Chromium(VI), particle emission factor, risk assessment, trace elements, wildfires, Thomas Fire, ash, health risk
The 'Black Summer' wildfires that affected Australia over the 2019-2020 summer have led to concern over the health effects of exposure to wildfire emissions, and generated a need for means to reduce exposure. Recently, active green infrastructure has been implemented in cities…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, botanical biofilter, green wall, living wall, green infrastructure, bushfire, air pollution, health impacts
Investigate West article about the current state of prescribed fire in Washington.
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington Prescribed Fire Council, fuels treatments, low-intensity fire, mega fires
We analyze the long‐range transport to high latitudes of a smoke particle filament originating from the extra‐tropics plume after the Australian wildfires colloquially known as ‘Black Saturday’ on February 7th 2009 and report the first Antarctic stratospheric lidar…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, Australia, Antarctica, bushfires, aerosols, Black Saturday, O3 - ozone
The 2020 fire season in the western United States (the West) has been staggering: over 2.5 million ha have burned as of 31 September, including over 1.5 million ha in California (3.7% of the state), in part from five of the six largest fires in state history; over 760,000 ha…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: 2020 fire season, climate change, anthropogenic climate change, area burned, fire suppression effects
The summer of 2018 saw intense smoke impacts on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in California, which have been anecdotally ascribed to the closest wildfire, the Lions Fire. We examined the role of the Lions Fire and four other, simultaneous large wildfires on smoke impacts…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality management, source apportionment, GOES-16, remote sensing, diurnal emissions, eastern Sierra Nevada, BlueSky Modeling Framework, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, 2018 fire season