Thursday, August 28, 2008
Rural, suburban or urban it's still fire
Janet Wilmoth jwilmoth@primediabusiness.com
At the Wildfire 2002 Conference in Kansas City in December, U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation Director Jerry Williams told attendees that firefighter...
Cause of Ignition 2002
Essential Data Solutions, an information-gathering firm, reveals a snapshot of 2002 fire incidents by cause of ignition out of more than 600,000 incidents reported to EDS as of Jan. 10....
All that Jazz
Barry Barnes, Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University and Capt. Bill Lowe, Ph.D., EMT-P
With a plenitude of rules and operating procedures, firefighters know what’s expected of them on the fireground. But what happens when the situation isn’t textbook and standards don’t apply? A look at musicians’ approach to improv can provide some guidance....
Interior Secretary details Healthy Forest pilot projects
While speaking at the National Fire Plan Conference in New Orleans, Gale Norton, secretary of the interior, announced five additional Healthy Forests...
President emphasizes wildland firefighting in 2004 budget
President George W. Bush will propose $698.7 million for wildfire prevention and suppression and Healthy Forests initiatives in FY 2004, a $45 million...
Forest concerns overshadowed, say conservationists
Wolfgang Jendsch German News Editor
The economic situation in Germany has pushed environmental concerns into the background, leaving the present conditions of forests cared for by only a...
Russia institutes peat fire prevention program
Serghey Stelmakovich Russian News Editor
Moscow is half-surrounded by swamps and deep bogs that were drained in the 1960s for agricultural use, afforestation and mining of peat as fuel for power...
Get into the zone
By Bret Butler, Research Mechanical Engineer, and Jason Forthofer, Mechanical Engineer Rocky Mountai
A simple rule of thumb was proposed in 1998 as a definition of minimum separation distance between firefighters and flames to prevent burn injury. The...
A fresh approach to wildfire dichotomy
Bruce Suenram
By the time weather closes the book on the 2002 fire season, taxpayers will be looking at a bill estimated to be from $1 billion to $1.5 billion for just...
Russian fire season continues furious path
By Serghey Stolmakevich Russian News Editor
This season of wildfires has begun unusually early in Russia, but it was not something frightening until early May. Typically there are few wildfires...
Fire strikes rainforest on Gomera Island
By Wolfgang Jendsch, German News Editor
The Island of Gomera is located in the Atlantic Ocean, about 100 miles off the northwest African coast. Gomera is one of the Canary Islands, with jagged...
IAWF to co-sponsor scientific session at GSA meeting
The IAWF will sponsor of the scientific session, Geomorphic Impacts of Wildfire at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition: Science...
Where there's smoke, there's wire
Douglas Page
In other research from Down Under, Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, and Powercor Australia have developed a technology said to make it possible...
Your next sprinkler system?
By Patrick Coughlin, EFO Manager, Fire Sprinkler Codes and Standards The Wirsbo Company
New multipurpose residential sprinklers take the guesswork out of finding water sources and bring home fire safety to the next plateau....
Thermal imaging camera
FIRE CHIEF STAFF
Designed to be more sensitive to thermal energy emitted by people and objects, the Protectir[TM] 4000B infrared heat vision camera allows firefighters...
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