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Thorburn, R. W., A. MacMillan, and M. E. Alexander. "The application of interactive multimedia CD-ROM technology to wildland fire safety training." Forestry Chronicle 76, no. 6 (2000): 953–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc76953-6.

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Interactive multimedia technology has been utilized in the development of a CD-ROM based wildland fire safety training course, Wildland Fire – Safety on the Fireline. Interactive multimedia technology allows delivery of training to a large number of students on a consistent basis. In addition, cost savings can be achieved through reduced learning time, reduced travel, minimal use of instructors, and most of all, through retention of knowledge as a result of using multimedia. The course, Wildland Fire – Safety on the Fireline, was developed and reviewed by a national team of specialists in wild

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Gebert, Krista M., David E. Calkin, and Jonathan Yoder. "Estimating Suppression Expenditures for Individual Large Wildland Fires." Western Journal of Applied Forestry 22, no. 3 (2007): 188–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wjaf/22.3.188.

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Abstract The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics that influence expenditures is important for both strategic fire planning and onsite fire management decisions. These characteristics then can be used to produce estimates of suppression expenditures for large wildland fires for use in wildland fire decision support or after-fire reviews. The primary objective o

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Jiménez, Pedro, Domingo Muñoz-Esparza, and Branko Kosović. "A High Resolution Coupled Fire–Atmosphere Forecasting System to Minimize the Impacts of Wildland Fires: Applications to the Chimney Tops II Wildland Event." Atmosphere 9, no. 5 (2018): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos9050197.

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Wildland fires are responsible for large socio-economic impacts. Fires affect the environment, damage structures, threaten lives, cause health issues, and involve large suppression costs. These impacts can be mitigated via accurate fire spread forecast to inform the incident management team. We show that a fire forecast system based on a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model coupled with a wildland fire behavior model can provide this forecast. This was illustrated with the Chimney Tops II wildland fire responsible for large socio-economic impacts. The system was run at high horizontal reso

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Velichkova, Rositsa, Radostina A. Angelova, and Iskra Simova. "Wildland Fire Suppression with Water Assets from Nature." Environmental Sciences Proceedings 5, no. 1 (2020): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/iecg2020-08905.

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Wildland fires frequently happen and develop in hard-to-reach regions, fast covering large areas due to the presence of ignitable matters together with beneficial meteorological circumstances. Human actions and natural events are the main reasons for the appearance of wildland fires. Our study focusses on the idea of using natural resources, namely water assets on the fire-affected territory. Since fire suppression is primarily performed with water, the provision of sufficient water sources in the proximity of the burning area is critical. An investigation of the hydrological characteristics o

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Houtman, Rachel M., Claire A. Montgomery, Aaron R. Gagnon, et al. "Allowing a wildfire to burn: estimating the effect on future fire suppression costs." International Journal of Wildland Fire 22, no. 7 (2013): 871. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf12157.

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Where a legacy of aggressive wildland fire suppression has left forests in need of fuel reduction, allowing wildland fire to burn may provide fuel treatment benefits, thereby reducing suppression costs from subsequent fires. The least-cost-plus-net-value-change model of wildland fire economics includes benefits of wildfire in a framework for evaluating suppression options. In this study, we estimated one component of that benefit – the expected present value of the reduction in suppression costs for subsequent fires arising from the fuel treatment effect of a current fire. To that end, we empl

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Špulák, Pavel. "Wildland Fires in the Czech Republic—Review of Data Spanning 20 Years." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11, no. 5 (2022): 289. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11050289.

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The following article deals with more than 20 years of historical wildland fire data from the Czech Republic, logged in the databases of the operational centers of the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic (FRS of CR). First, the definition of the term wildland fire is introduced. After that, the locations of wildland fires are discussed, from the point of view of their introduction into the information systems. Next, as the FRS of CR is organized on a regional basis, the number of wildland fires is analyzed regionally. On the basis of this analysis, some advice concerning the preparat

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Liang, Jingjing, Dave E. Calkin, Krista M. Gebert, Tyron J. Venn, and Robin P. Silverstein. "Factors influencing large wildland fire suppression expenditures." International Journal of Wildland Fire 17, no. 5 (2008): 650. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf07010.

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There is an urgent and immediate need to address the excessive cost of large fires. Here, we studied large wildland fire suppression expenditures by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Among 16 potential non-managerial factors, which represented fire size and shape, private properties, public land attributes, forest and fuel conditions, and geographic settings, we found only fire size and private land had a strong effect on suppression expenditures. When both were accounted for, all the other variables had no significant effect. A parsimonious model to predict suppression expendit

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McAlpine, R. S., and B. M. Wotton. "The use of fractal dimension to improve wildland fire perimeter predictions." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23, no. 6 (1993): 1073–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x93-137.

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Fire managers currently use simple elliptical models to predict the perimeter of a fire when the fire starts from a single point. However, when examined closely wildland fire perimeters are highly irregular. We tested the hypothesis that a fire is actually fractal in nature and thus the true length of a fire perimeter depends on the amount of fine-edge detail included in the measurement. The amount of perimeter detail incorporated is dependent on the length of the base unit of measurement; the longer the unit, the less the perimeter detail, and the shorter the perimeter. Different forest fire

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Carballo-Leyenda, Belén, José Gerardo Villa-Vicente, Giuseppe M. Delogu, Jose A. Rodríguez-Marroyo, and Domingo M. Molina-Terrén. "Perceptions of Heat Stress, Heat Strain and Mitigation Practices in Wildfire Suppression across Southern Europe and Latin America." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 19 (2022): 12288. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912288.

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This study aimed to assess current perceptions of heat stress, heat strain, acclimatisation and recovery practices in wildland fire suppression. A total of 1459 wildfire and structural firefighters, all involved in wildland fire suppression, completed an 18-question survey. Most participants (81.3%) reported heat strain as one of the main risks faced during wildland firefighting. Thermal strain is considered an important risk for health and safety in wildland firefighting. The best-valued heat strain mitigation strategies were those traditionally recommended in wildland fire suppression: (i) a

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Holmes, Thomas P., and David E. Calkin. "Econometric analysis of fire suppression production functions for large wildland fires." International Journal of Wildland Fire 22, no. 2 (2013): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf11098.

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In this paper, we use operational data collected for large wildland fires to estimate the parameters of economic production functions that relate the rate of fireline construction with the level of fire suppression inputs (handcrews, dozers, engines and helicopters). These parameter estimates are then used to evaluate whether the productivity of fire suppression inputs during extensive fire suppression efforts are similar to productivity estimates derived from direct observation and used as standard rates by the US Forest Service. The results indicated that the production rates estimated with

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Liang, Jingjing, Dave E. Calkin, Krista M. Gebert, Tyron J. Venn, and Robin P. Silverstein. "Corrigendum to: Factors influencing large wildland fire suppression expenditures." International Journal of Wildland Fire 21, no. 2 (2012): 186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf07010_co.

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There is an urgent and immediate need to address the excessive cost of large fires. Here, we studied large wildland fire suppression expenditures by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Among 16 potential non-managerial factors, which represented fire size and shape, private properties, public land attributes, forest and fuel conditions, and geographic settings, we found only fire size and private land had a strong effect on suppression expenditures. When both were accounted for, all the other variables had no significant effect. A parsimonious model to predict suppression expendit

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Mell, William E., Samuel L. Manzello, Alexander Maranghides, David Butry, and Ronald G. Rehm. "The wildland - urban interface fire problem - current approaches and research needs." International Journal of Wildland Fire 19, no. 2 (2010): 238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf07131.

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Wildfires that spread into wildland–urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel treatment costs. Methods to reduce structure losses are focussed on fuel treatments in either wildland fuels or residential fuels. There is a need for a well-characterised, systematic testing of these approaches across a range of community and structure types and fire conditions. Laboratory experiments, field measurements and fire behaviour models can be used to bet

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Belval, Erin J., Yu Wei, David E. Calkin, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Matthew P. Thompson, and John R. Tipton. "Studying interregional wildland fire engine assignments for large fire suppression." International Journal of Wildland Fire 26, no. 7 (2017): 642. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf16162.

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One crucial component of large fire response in the United States (US) is the sharing of wildland firefighting resources between regions: resources from regions experiencing low fire activity supplement resources in regions experiencing high fire activity. An important step towards improving the efficiency of resource sharing and related policies is to develop a better understanding of current assignment patterns. In this paper we examine the set of interregional wildland fire engine assignments for incidents in California and the Southwest Geographic Coordination Areas, utilising data from th

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Keane, Robert E., Kathy Gray, Brett Davis, Lisa M. Holsinger, and Rachel Loehman. "Evaluating ecological resilience across wildfire suppression levels under climate and fuel treatment scenarios using landscape simulation modelling." International Journal of Wildland Fire 28, no. 7 (2019): 533. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf19015.

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Continued suppression of wildfires may allow more biomass to accumulate to foster even more intense fires. Enlightened fire management involves explicitly determining concurrent levels of suppression, wildland fire use (allowing some fires to burn) and fuel treatments to manage landscapes for ecological resilience. This study used the mechanistic landscape model FireBGCv2 to simulate ecological dynamics on three landscapes in the US northern Rocky Mountains to determine responses of seven management-oriented variables over a gradient of 10 fire suppression levels under two climate and four fue

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Donovan, Geoffrey H., and Peter Noordijk. "Assessing the Accuracy of Wildland Fire Situation Analysis (WFSA) Fire Size and Suppression Cost Estimates." Journal of Forestry 103, no. 1 (2005): 10–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jof/103.1.10.

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Abstract To determine the optimal suppression strategy for escaped wildfires, federal land managers are required to conduct a wildland fire situation analysis (WFSA). As part of the WFSA process, fire managers estimate final fire size and suppression costs. Estimates from 58 WFSAs conducted during the 2002 fire season are compared to actual outcomes. Results indicate that estimates of fire size and suppression costs are systematically biased. Modifications to the WFSA process are suggested to address these problems.

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Woodard, Paul M. "Minimum requirements for wildfire investigations." Forestry Chronicle 84, no. 3 (2008): 375–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc84375-3.

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Provincial forest management agencies across Canada are attempting to recover suppression costs plus losses to real property due to human-caused fires when negligence is involved. These agencies are responsible for investigating these fires, and they commonly restrict all access to the fire origin area. These agencies commonly employ well trained fire investigators, who are well aware of standards for documenting wildland fires. However, in many cases, the quality of the investigations is poor, and the cost of finding this additional information is great. In this paper, I identify the minimum

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Calkin, David E., Matthew P. Thompson, Mark A. Finney, and Kevin D. Hyde. "A Real-Time Risk Assessment Tool Supporting Wildland Fire Decisionmaking." Journal of Forestry 109, no. 5 (2011): 274–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jof/109.5.274.

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Abstract Development of appropriate management strategies for escaped wildland fires is complex. Fire managers need the ability to identify, in real time, the likelihood that wildfire will affect valuable developed and natural resources (e.g., private structures, public infrastructure, and natural and cultural resources). These determinations help guide where and when aggressive suppression is required to protect values and when fire may be allowed to burn to enhance ecosystem conditions. This article describes the primary components of the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), a geos

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Loomis, John, and Armando González-Cabán. "Forest Service Use of Nonmarket Valuation in Fire Economics: Past, Present, and Future." Journal of Forestry 108, no. 8 (2010): 389–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jof/108.8.389.

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Abstract The need for monetary benefits of protecting spotted owl old-growth forest habitat from fire in the early 1990s was the catalyst for application of nonmarket valuation techniques to fire management within the US Forest Service. Two large-scale general public surveys successfully established that the contingent valuation method (CVM) could be used to estimate both state-level and national-level benefits for fire prevention and fire suppression in endangered species critical habitat. By the late 1990s large-scale wildland–urban interface fires resulted in the need to measure what the ge

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Mahmoud, Hussam, and Akshat Chulahwat. "Assessing wildland–urban interface fire risk." Royal Society Open Science 7, no. 8 (2020): 201183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201183.

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Recent wildfire events, in the United States (USA) and around the world, have resulted in thousands of homes destroyed and many lives lost, leaving communities and policy makers, once again, with the question as to how to manage wildfire risk. This is particularly important given the prevalent trend of increased fire frequency and intensity. Current approaches to managing wildfires focus on fire suppression and managing fuel build-up in wildlands. However, reliance on these strategies alone has clearly proven inadequate. As such, focus should be shifted towards minimizing potential losses to c

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Belval, Erin J., Yu Wei, and Michael Bevers. "A stochastic mixed integer program to model spatial wildfire behavior and suppression placement decisions with uncertain weather." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 46, no. 2 (2016): 234–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2015-0289.

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Wildfire behavior is a complex and stochastic phenomenon that can present unique tactical management challenges. This paper investigates a multistage stochastic mixed integer program with full recourse to model spatially explicit fire behavior and to select suppression locations for a wildland fire. Simplified suppression decisions take the form of “suppression nodes”, which are placed on a raster landscape for multiple decision stages. Weather scenarios are used to represent a distribution of probable changes in fire behavior in response to random weather changes, modeled using probabilistic

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Hamilton, Dale, Enoch Levandovsky, and Nicholas Hamilton. "Mapping Burn Extent of Large Wildland Fires from Satellite Imagery Using Machine Learning Trained from Localized Hyperspatial Imagery." Remote Sensing 12, no. 24 (2020): 4097. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12244097.

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Wildfires burn 4–10 million acres annually across the United States and wildland fire related damages and suppression costs have exceeded $13 billion for a single year. High-intensity wildfires contribute to post-fire erosion, degraded wildlife habitat, and loss of timber resources. Accurate and temporally adequate assessment of the effects of wildland fire on the environment is critical to improving the of wildland fire as a tool for restoring ecosystem resilience. Sensor miniaturization and small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) provide affordable, on-demand monitoring of wildland fire effec

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Wei, Yu, Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval, David E. Calkin, and Jude Bayham. "Understand Daily Fire Suppression Resource Ordering and Assignment Patterns by Unsupervised Learning." Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction 3, no. 1 (2020): 14–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/make3010002.

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Wildland fire management agencies are responsible for assigning suppression resources to control fire spread and mitigate fire risks. This study implements a principle component analysis and an association rule analysis to study wildland fire response resource requests from 2016 to 2018 in the western US to identify daily resource ordering and assignment patterns for large fire incidents. Unsupervised learning can identify patterns in the assignment of individual resources or pairs of resources. Three national Geographic Area Coordination Centers (GACCs) are studied, including California (CA),

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Gebert, Krista M., and Anne E. Black. "Effect of Suppression Strategies on Federal Wildland Fire Expenditures." Journal of Forestry 110, no. 2 (2012): 65–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/jof.10-068.

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Marks, Alexander N., Alejandro M. Rosales, Patrick S. Dodds, Joseph A. Sol, Joseph W. Domitrovich, and Brent C. Ruby. "Electrolyte Balance And Hydration Status During Wildland Fire Suppression." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 52, no. 7S (2020): 372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000677840.61348.46.

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Hanes, Chelene, Mike Wotton, Douglas G. Woolford, David L. Martell, and Mike Flannigan. "Preceding Fall Drought Conditions and Overwinter Precipitation Effects on Spring Wildland Fire Activity in Canada." Fire 3, no. 2 (2020): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire3020024.

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Spring fire activity has increased in parts of Canada, particularly in the west, prompting fire managers to seek indicators of potential activity before the fire season starts. The overwintering adjustment of the Canadian Fire Weather Index System’s Drought Code (DC) is a method to adjust and carry-over the previous season’s drought conditions into the spring and potentially point to what lies ahead. The occurrence of spring fires is most strongly influenced by moisture in fine fuels. We used a zero-inflated Poisson regression model to examine the impact of the previous end of season Drought C

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Sun, Changyou, and Branden Tolver. "Assessing the distribution patterns of wildfire sizes in Mississippi, USA." International Journal of Wildland Fire 21, no. 5 (2012): 510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf10107.

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Wildland fires can produce dramatic ecological and economic impacts. The objective of this study was to analyse the temporal and spatial distribution patterns of wildland fires using 64 474 fire records in Mississippi, collected between 1991 and 2007. The methodology employed was descriptive statistics and extreme value statistics. The analyses were conducted for all the fires combined, and also by year, period, ecoregion and cause separately. Wildland fires occurred most frequently between February and May, with more than half of all the fires occurring in that period. The ecoregion of outer

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Cardil, A., M. Lorente, D. Boucher, J. Boucher, and S. Gauthier. "Factors influencing fire suppression success in the province of Quebec (Canada)." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 49, no. 5 (2019): 531–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2018-0272.

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In the managed forest of Canada, forest fires are actively suppressed through efficient initial attack capability; however, the impact of different factors on the suppression success remains to be understood. The aim of this paper was to analyze the influence of operational suppression objectives (fire detection, initial attack, and fire control) along with fire intensity, fuel type, fire ignition cause, year, workload, and homogeneous fire regime zones on the achievement of the fire suppression objective (fire < 3 ha) using the Forest Fire Protection Agency of Quebec (SOPFEU) as a case stu

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Yoder, Jonathan, and Keith Blatner. "Incentives and Timing of Prescribed Fire for Wildfire Risk Management." Journal of Forestry 102, no. 6 (2004): 38–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jof/102.6.38.

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Abstract Prescribed fire use for wildfire fuel reduction entails trading one risk for another. Because these risks change over time as vegetation matures, prescribed fire use for wildfire risk mitigation can be viewed as a timing problem. We examine economic incentives for prescribed fire timing and use on the wildland-urban interface, the problem of heavy initial fuel loads from years of suppression and fuel accumulation, and the effect of liability, public suppression, and other factors on fuel management incentives. We conclude with a number of broad policy recommendations.

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Canton-Thompson, Janie, Krista M. Gebert, Brooke Thompson, Greg Jones, David Calkin, and Geoff Donovan. "External Human Factors in Incident Management Team Decisionmaking and Their Effect on Large Fire Suppression Expenditures." Journal of Forestry 106, no. 8 (2008): 416–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jof/106.8.416.

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Abstract Large wildland fires are complex, costly events influenced by a vast array of physical, climatic, and social factors. Changing climate, fuel buildup due to past suppression, and increasing populations in the wildland-urban interface have all been blamed for the extreme fire seasons and rising suppression expenditures of recent years. With each high-cost year comes a multitude of fire cost reviews, suppression cost studies by federal oversight agencies, and new rules and regulations focused on containing or reducing suppression costs. However, largely ignored in many of these inquiries

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Noonan-Wright, Erin K., Tonja S. Opperman, Mark A. Finney, et al. "Developing the US Wildland Fire Decision Support System." Journal of Combustion 2011 (2011): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/168473.

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A new decision support tool, the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) has been developed to support risk-informed decision-making for individual fires in the United States. WFDSS accesses national weather data and forecasts, fire behavior prediction, economic assessment, smoke management assessment, and landscape databases to efficiently formulate and apply information to the decision making process. Risk-informed decision-making is becoming increasingly important as a means of improving fire management and offers substantial opportunities to benefit natural and community resource pro

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Preisler, Haiganoush K., Anthony L. Westerling, Krista M. Gebert, Francisco Munoz-Arriola, and Thomas P. Holmes. "Spatially explicit forecasts of large wildland fire probability and suppression costs for California." International Journal of Wildland Fire 20, no. 4 (2011): 508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf09087.

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In the last decade, increases in fire activity and suppression expenditures have caused budgetary problems for federal land management agencies. Spatial forecasts of upcoming fire activity and costs have the potential to help reduce expenditures, and increase the efficiency of suppression efforts, by enabling them to focus resources where they have the greatest effect. In this paper, we present statistical models for estimating 1–6 months ahead spatially explicit forecasts of expected numbers, locations and costs of large fires on a 0.125° grid with vegetation, topography and hydroclimate data

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Farrell, Kyle, Md Kamrul Hassan, Md Delwar Hossain, et al. "Water Mist Fire Suppression Systems for Building and Industrial Applications: Issues and Challenges." Fire 6, no. 2 (2023): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire6020040.

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Interest in water mist fire suppression has increased within the fire protection industry due to its ability to control the spread and development of fire without using environmentally damaging agents. Water mist fire suppression has been used for many years in various applications such as machinery spaces, combustion turbine enclosures, and onboard passenger sea vessels. Now there is a demand to use this firefighting method to protect other fire risks such as cooking areas, commercial buildings, residential buildings, electrical equipment, road tunnels, bushfire (wildland fire) protection, an

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Rodríguez y Silva, Francisco, Juan Ramón Molina Martínez, and Armando González-Cabán. "A methodology for determining operational priorities for prevention and suppression of wildland fires." International Journal of Wildland Fire 23, no. 4 (2014): 544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf13063.

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Traditional uses of the forest (timber, forage) have been giving way to other uses more in demand (recreation, ecosystem services). An observable consequence of this process of forest land use conversion is an increase in more difficult and extreme wildfires. Wildland forest management and protection program budgets are limited, and managers are requesting help in finding ways to objectively assign their limited protection resources based on the intrinsic environmental characteristics of a site and the site’s interrelationship with available firefighting resources and existing infrastructure.

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Heil, Daniel P., Brent C. Ruby, Steve E. Gaskill, D. E. Lankford, and Brian J. Sharkey. "Prediction Of Energy Expenditure During Simulated Wildland Fire Suppression Tasks." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 36, Supplement (2004): S219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/00005768-200405001-01051.

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Heil, Daniel P., Brent C. Ruby, Steve E. Gaskill, D. E. Lankford, and Brian J. Sharkey. "Prediction Of Energy Expenditure During Simulated Wildland Fire Suppression Tasks." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 36, Supplement (2004): S219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005768-200405001-01051.

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Hyde, Kevin, Matthew B. Dickinson, Gil Bohrer, et al. "Research and development supporting risk-based wildfire effects prediction for fuels and fire management: status and needs." International Journal of Wildland Fire 22, no. 1 (2013): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf11143.

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Wildland fire management has moved beyond a singular focus on suppression, calling for wildfire management for ecological benefit where no critical human assets are at risk. Processes causing direct effects and indirect, long-term ecosystem changes are complex and multidimensional. Robust risk-assessment tools are required that account for highly variable effects on multiple values-at-risk and balance competing objectives, to support decision making. Providing wildland fire managers with risk-analysis tools requires a broad scientific foundation in fire behaviour and effects prediction as well

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Stocks, B. J., and David L. Martell. "Forest fire management expenditures in Canada: 1970–2013." Forestry Chronicle 92, no. 03 (2016): 298–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc2016-056.

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Fire plays a vital role in forest management in Canada and the cost of fire management varies significantly both spatially and temporally. We present the fixed (pre-suppression) and variable (suppression) expenditures incurred by Canadian forest and wildland fire management agencies over the period 1970–2013. We describe how the data was compiled, display it in a graphical format, present the results of our preliminary analysis of that data and discuss those results and the need to investigate both fire management productivity and the factors that influence it. The data is available in a publi

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Christman, Laine, and Kimberly Rollins. "The economic benefit of localised, short-term, wildfire-potential information." International Journal of Wildland Fire 24, no. 7 (2015): 974. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf14003.

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Wildfire-potential information products are designed to support decisions for prefire staging of movable wildfire suppression resources across geographic locations. We quantify the economic value of these information products by defining their value as the difference between two cases of expected fire-suppression expenditures: one in which daily information about spatial variation in wildfire-potential is used to move fire suppression resources throughout the season, and the other case in which daily information is not used and fire-suppression resources are staged in their home locations all

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Mees, R. "Is Arson Associated with Severe Fire Weather in Southern California?" International Journal of Wildland Fire 1, no. 2 (1991): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf9910097.

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Under severe fire weather conditions arson is believed to be the primary cause of large wildland fires in southern California. Wildland fire suppression personnel and the public use the the expression "This weather brings out the arsonists" to indicate their awareness of the high potential for large arson-caused fires under these conditions. To determine the accuracy of this statement, fire occurrence and weather data were analyzed for four southern California National Forests for a 10-year period (1975–1984). The results showed that the proportion of arson and non-arson person-caused fires re

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Conard, Susan G., Timothy Hartzell, Michael W. Hilbruner, and G. Thomas Zimmerman. "Changing fuel management strategies - The challenge of meeting new information and analysis needs." International Journal of Wildland Fire 10, no. 4 (2001): 267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf01027.

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This paper was presented at the conference ‘Integrating spatial technologies and ecological principles for a new age in fire management’, Boise, Idaho, USA, June 1999 ‘The earth, born in fire, baptized by lightning since before life&quot;s beginning, has been and is a fire planet.’ E.V. Komarek Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent years, burned areas and

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Yu, Anthony C., Hector Lopez Hernandez, Andrew H. Kim, et al. "Wildfire prevention through prophylactic treatment of high-risk landscapes using viscoelastic retardant fluids." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 42 (2019): 20820–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907855116.

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Polyphosphate fire retardants are a critical tactical resource for fighting fires in the wildland and in the wildland–urban interface. Yet, application of these retardants is limited to emergency suppression strategies because current formulations cannot retain fire retardants on target vegetation for extended periods of time through environmental exposure and weathering. New retardant formulations with persistent retention to target vegetation throughout the peak fire season would enable methodical, prophylactic treatment strategies of landscapes at high risk of wildfires through prolonged pr

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Ingalsbee, Timothy. "After the Greenfire Revolution: Reimagining Collective Identities of the Future Wildland Fire Workforce in a Paradigm Shift for Ecological Fire Management." Fire 7, no. 7 (2024): 211. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire7070211.

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This concept paper explores possible collective identities for a future wildland fire workforce. Taking inspiration from the work of futurists who foresee an end to the dominant fire exclusion/suppression paradigm, and assuming that an emerging fire restoration/resilience paradigm shift replaces it, this paper engages in speculative explorations of the process and product of this paradigm shift with respect to the future collective identities of a workforce conducting ecological fire management. Social constructionist assumptions from symbolic interactionist sociological theory, Gramscian poli

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Calkin, David E., Tyron Venn, Matthew Wibbenmeyer, and Matthew P. Thompson. "Estimating US federal wildland fire managers’ preferences toward competing strategic suppression objectives." International Journal of Wildland Fire 22, no. 2 (2013): 212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf11075.

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Wildfire management involves significant complexity and uncertainty, requiring simultaneous consideration of multiple, non-commensurate objectives. This paper investigates the tradeoffs fire managers are willing to make among these objectives using a choice experiment methodology that provides three key advancements relative to previous stated-preference studies directed at understanding fire manager preferences: (1) a more immediate relationship between the instrument employed in measuring preferences and current management practices and operational decision-support systems; (2) an explicit e

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Clark, Anna M., Benjamin S. Rashford, Donald M. McLeod, Scott N. Lieske, Roger H. Coupal, and Shannon E. Albeke. "The Impact of Residential Development Pattern on Wildland Fire Suppression Expenditures." Land Economics 92, no. 4 (2016): 656–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/le.92.4.656.

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Young, Jesse D., Andrea E. Thode, Ching-Hsun Huang, Alan A. Ager, and Pete Z. Fulé. "Strategic application of wildland fire suppression in the southwestern United States." Journal of Environmental Management 245 (September 2019): 504–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.01.003.

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Montain, Scott J., Carol J. Baker-Fulco, Philip J. Niro, Andrew Reinert, Joseph Domitrovich, and Brent C. Ruby. "Eat-On-Move Rations Improve Actimetry Scores During Wildland Fire Suppression." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 38, Supplement (2006): S36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/00005768-200605001-01041.

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Minnich, RA, and YH Chou. "Wildland Fire Patch Dynamics in the Chaparral of Southern California and Northern Baja California." International Journal of Wildland Fire 7, no. 3 (1997): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf9970221.

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In ecosystems where fire occurrence has significant time-dependence, fire sequences should exhibit system-regulation that is distinguished by nonrandom (nonstationary), self-organizing patch dynamics related to spatially constrained fire probabilities. Exogenous factors such as fire weather, precipitation variability, and terrain alter the flammability of vegetation and encourage randomness in fire occurrence within pre-existing patch structure. In Californian chaparral, the roles of succession/fuel build-up and exogenous factors is examined by taking advantage of a 100 yr 'natural experiment'

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Gaskill, Steven E., Charles L. Dumke, Charles G. Palmer, Brent C. Ruby, Joseph W. Domitrovich, and Joseph A. Sol. "Seasonal changes in wildland firefighter fitness and body composition." International Journal of Wildland Fire 29, no. 3 (2020): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf19104.

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Hiking with a pack is the highest-intensity task that wildland firefighters (WLFFs) perform during sustained activities related to wildland fire suppression. Firefighters perform this and other tasks together as a crew; this provides a unique model to evaluate select physical and physiological changes in members of working crews over a fire season during extended operations. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in peak aerobic fitness (VO2peak), sustainable aerobic fitness at the ventilatory threshold (VO2vt) and body composition over a 5-month wildland fire season. WLFFs from f

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Vega, J. A., E. Jiménez, J. L. Dupuy, and R. R. Linn. "Effects of flame interaction on the rate of spread of heading and suppression fires in shrubland experimental fires." International Journal of Wildland Fire 21, no. 8 (2012): 950. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf10124.

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Suppression fires are frequently used in wildland firefighting operations. However, little is known about how suppression fires behave and how the main front and the suppression fire interact. Lack of information limits the operational use and effectiveness of suppression fires and compromises the safety of firefighters. A series of experimental fires were conducted in a shrubland fuel complex in Galicia to quantify the effect of the interaction between a heading fire burning upslope with the prevailing wind and a suppression fire burning downslope from a control line against the wind. An empi

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Ausonio, Elena, Patrizia Bagnerini, and Marco Ghio. "Drone Swarms in Fire Suppression Activities: A Conceptual Framework." Drones 5, no. 1 (2021): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones5010017.

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The recent huge technological development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide breakthrough means of fighting wildland fires. We propose an innovative forest firefighting system based on the use of a swarm of hundreds of UAVs able to generate a continuous flow of extinguishing liquid on the fire front, simulating the effect of rain. Automatic battery replacement and extinguishing liquid refill ensure the continuity of the action. We illustrate the validity of the approach in Mediterranean scrub first computing the critical water flow rate according to the main factors involved in the

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