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Integrating wildfire spread and evacuation times to design safe triggers: application to two rural communities using PERIL model
Mitchell, Gwynne, Ronchi, Kalogeropoulos, Rein
The hazards posed by a wildfire increase significantly when it approaches the wildland–urban interface. Evacuation of rural communities is frequently considered by local authorities and residents. In this context, evacuation triggers are locations…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Evacuation simulation under threat of wildfire - an overview of research, development, and knowledge gaps
Beyki, Santiago, Laím, Craveiro
Wildfires have become a common incident over the past decades, and they have been threatening people’s lives and assets. In the communities close to wildlands or wildland-urban interfaces (WUI), these threats become increasingly serious, and in case…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Why do we still not know how to prevent firefighter entrapments? - Thoughts and observations from a few perplexed fire practitioners
Gibos, Fitzpatrick, Elliott
Wildland firefighters continue to die in the line of duty. Flammable landscapes intersect with bold but good-intentioned doers and trigger entrapment-a situation where personnel is unexpectedly caught in fire behaviour-related, life-threatening…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Objective identification of thunderstorm gust fronts in numerical weather prediction models for fire weather forecasting
Bresch, Powers, Schwartz, Sobash, Coen
Abrupt changes in wind direction and speed can dramatically impact wildfire development and spread, endangering firefighters. A frequent cause of such wind shifts is outflow from thunderstorms and organised convective systems; thus, their…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Using artificial intelligence for safe and effective wildfire evacuations
Zhao, Lovreglio, Kuligowski, Nilsson
[from the text] Wildfire is a growing global concern for rural and urban areas [1]. Statistics show that the intensity and negative consequences of wildfire have increased in recent decades creating serious challenges for fire and emergency services…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States
Jaffe, O'Neill, Larkin, Holder, Peterson, Halofsky, Rappold
Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations for extended periods. Fires emit particulate matter (PM) and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document

Household Decision Making and Evacuation Behavior during Wildfires
Kuligowski
As wildfires that threaten communities become more severe, there is an increasing need to understand human behavior in these situations, and evacuation decision-making and behavior in particular. A number of deaths have occurred in previous fires…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Global nature of airborne particle toxicity and health effects: a focus on megacities, wildfires, dust storms and residential biomass burning
Kelly, Fussell
Since air pollutants are difficult and expensive to control, a strong scientific underpinning to policies is needed to guide mitigation aimed at reducing the current burden on public health. Much of the evidence concerning hazard identification and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document

A robust p-Center problem under pressure to locate shelters in wildfire context
Demange, Gabrel, Haddad, Murat
The location of shelters in different areas threatened by wildfires is one of the possible ways to reduce fatalities in a context of an increasing number of catastrophic and severe wildfires. These shelters will enable the population in the area to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document

Setting wildfire evacuation triggers by coupling fire and traffic simulation models: a spatiotemporal GIS approach
Li, Cova, Dennison
Wildfire evacuation triggers refer to prominent geographic features used in wildfire evacuation practices, and when a fire crosses a feature, an evacuation warning is issued to the communities or firefighters in the path of the fire. The existing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document