Characterizing Wildland Firefighters’ Thermal Environment During Live-Fire Suppression

Visualization in the Wildland Fire enVironment

Jim Riddering is a research scientist for the Center for Landscape Fire Analysis at the University of Montana. Zack Holden is a scientist for the Forest Service in the Northern Region. Matt Jolly is a research ecologist at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory. Allen Warren is a computer scientist at the University of Montana. Introduction Rapid advances in cellular phone technology have transf...

A wildland fire modeling and visualization environment

We present an overview of a modeling environment, consisting of a coupled atmosphere-wildfire model, utilities for visualization, data processing, and diagnostics, open source software repositories, and a community wiki. The fire model, called SFIRE, is based on a fire-spread model, implemented by the level-set method, and it is coupled with the Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model. A versi...

Fire fighters exposed to electrical hazards during wildland fire operations.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Among the various hazards fire fighters face are electrical hazards during wildland fire suppression activities. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reports that 10 fire fighters died from contact with electricity during wildland fires between 1980...

AGENT - BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION OF WILDLAND FIRE SUPPRESSION Xiaolin

Simulation of wildland fire suppression is useful to evaluate deployment plans of firefighting resources and to experiment different fire suppression strategies and tactics. Previous work of fire suppression simulation uses analytical models based on a continuous space. This paper presents a design of fire suppression simulation using a discrete event agent model based on a discrete cellular sp...

Wildland Fire Suppression and Land Development in the Wildland/Urban Interface