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Prescribed fires are an important management tool for reducing fuels and returning fire to the landscape. However, rarely are changes in fuels fully quantified using pre- to post-prescribed fire measurements and those studies that do exist show…
Author(s): Scott M. Ritter, Kat E. Morici, Camille Stevens-Rumann
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Many wildfire behaviour modeling studies have focused on fires during extreme conditions, where the dominant processes are resolved and smaller-scale variations have less influence on fire behaviour. As such, wildfire behaviour models typically…
Author(s): Ginny A. Marshall, Rodman Linn, Marlin J. Holmes, Scott L. Goodrick, Dan K. Thompson, A. Hemmati
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Leaders are crucial to ensuring the well-being of their subordinates. This study aims to understand the effects of two leadership styles (empowering vs. directive) on subordinates’ well-being in an emergency situation (i.e., rural fire). A…
Author(s): Luis Curral, Laura Carmona, Raquel Pinheiro, Vitor Reis, Maria Jose Chambel
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Throughout communities and ecosystems both within and downstream of mountain forests, there is an increasing risk of wildfire. After a wildfire, stakeholder management will vary depending on the rate and spatial heterogeneity of forest re-…
Author(s): Ryan W. Webb, Marcy E. Litvak, Paul D. Brooks
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In recent years, the state of Colorado has experienced extreme wildfire events that have degraded forest and watershed health and devastated human communities. With expanding human development and a changing climate, wildfire activity is likely to…
Author(s): Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson
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Background: Canadian fire management agencies track drought conditions using the Drought Code (DC) in the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. The DC represents deep organic layer moisture. Aims: To determine if electronic soil moisture probes…
Author(s): Chelene C. Krezek-Hanes, B. Mike Wotton, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Douglas G. Woolford, Stephane Belair, David L. Martell, Michael D. Flannigan
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Safety-specific passive leadership has been negatively linked to diminished safety outcomes, including safety behaviors. However, this relationship is not fully understood. Research has not fully examined mediating factors that may be influenced by…
Author(s): Todd D. Smith, Mari-Amanda Dyal, David M. DeJoy
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Despite recent research, a systematic approach to understanding wildfire governance is lacking. This article addresses this deficit by systematically reviewing governance theories and concepts applied so far in the academic literature on wildfires…
Author(s): Judith Kirschner, Julian Clark, George Boustras
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A new fire danger index is proposed to overcome one of the most important limitations of current fire danger metrics. The fire occurrence probability index (FOPI) combines the Canadian fire weather index (FWI) with remote observations of vegetation…
Author(s): Francesca Di Giuseppe
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Wilderness areas are important natural laboratories for scientists and managers working to understand fire. In the last half-century, shifts in the culture and policy of land management agencies have facilitated the management practice of letting…
Author(s): Mark R. Kreider, Melissa Jaffe, Julia Berkey, Sean A. Parks, Andrew J. Larson
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Background: Accurately estimating burned area from satellites is key to improving biomass burning emission models, studying fire evolution and assessing environmental impacts. Previous studies have found that current methods for estimating burned…
Author(s): Melinda T. Berman, XinXin Ye, Laura H. Thapa, David A. Peterson, Edward J. Hyer, Amber J. Soja, Emily Gargulinski, Ivan A. Csiszar, Christopher Schmidt, Pablo E. Saide
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Facing an increase in the size and complexity of wildland interface fires, water utilities must pay more attention to protecting vital infrastructures during potentially catastrophic wildfires. Water utilities can mitigate the impacts of wildfires…
Author(s): Robert Gutierrez, Esaud Lagunas
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Many fire management agencies aim to detect and suppress all ignitions within their jurisdiction and may benefit from understanding the causes of year-to-year variation. Ignition variation is likely to be associated with climatically driven changes…
Author(s): Nicholas Wilson, Marta Yebra
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Downslope wind-driven fires have resulted in many of the wildfire disasters in the western United States and represent a unique hazard to infrastructure and human life. We analyze the co-occurrence of wildfires and downslope winds across the western…
Author(s): John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, A. Park Williams, Mojtaba Sadegh, Jennifer Balch, Alex Hall
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Wildfires usually increase the hydrological and erosive response of forest areas, carrying high environmental, human, cultural, and financial on- and off-site effects. Post-fire soil erosion control measures have been proven effective at mitigating…
Author(s): Antonio Girona-García, Carola Cretella, Cristina Fernández, Peter R. Robichaud, Diana C.S. Vieira, Jan J. Keizer
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Background: Previous work by the author and others has examined weather associated with growth of exceptionally large fires (‘Fires of Unusual Size’, or FOUS), looking at three of four factors associated with critical fire weather patterns:…
Author(s): Brian E. Potter
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Fire and grazing play an important role in managed rangeland ecosystems. These disturbances interact to shape plant communities and outcomes for rangeland biodiversity and livestock production. However, managers have a limited toolbox to reach…
Author(s): Hailey Wilmer, Devan A. McGranahan, Corey A. Moffet, J. Bret Taylor
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Studies showed that tobacco use and excessive alcohol consumption frequently occur, and both are significant causes of preventable morbidity and mortality. Data were collected as part of a national online study of the health of women in the fire…
Author(s): Nattinee Jitnarin, Christopher K. Haddock, Christopher M. Kaipust, Walker S. C. Poston, Sara A. Jahnke
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A safe separation distance (SSD) needs to be considered during firefighting activities (fire suppression or people evacuation) against wildfires. The SSD is of critical interest for both humans and assets located in the wildland–urban interfaces (…
Author(s): Jacky Fayad, Gilbert Accary, Frederic Morandini, François Joseph Chatelon, Lucile Rossi, Thierry Marcelli, Dominique Cancellieri, Valérie Leroy-Cancellieri, Yassine Rahib, D. Morvan, Sofiane Meradji, Antoine Pieri, Jean-Yves Duret, Jean Louis Rossi
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The behaviour and rate of spread of a wildfire is strongly affected by local wind conditions depending on topography and surrounding vegetation. The wind speed within dense vegetation can be substantially lower than the open wind speed above the…
Author(s): Duncan Sutherland, Mahmood A. Rashid, J. E. Hilton, K. A. M. Moinuddin
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