The Forest Fire Advanced System Technology (FFAST) project is developing a data system to provide near-real-time forest fire information to fire management at the fire Incident Command Post (ICP). The completed conceptual design defined an integrated forest fire detection and mapping system that is based upon technology available in the 1990's. System component technologies identified for an en...

Abstract A well-defined terminology of fire-related variables is important for correct analyses and supporting knowledge-based decisions regarding the evaluation building fires at European level. After developing an overview current practices fire statistics in Part I, used data collected by EU Member States eight other countries incidents, property damage human losses were mapped to increase a...

Results are presented from a comprehensive experimental study to assess the occurrence of heat-induced longitudinal splitting cracks in concrete specimens reinforced with carbon fiber–reinforced polymer (CFRP) or steel when exposed severe heating one side, as would likely occur during fire building. Tests were performed on large- and medium-scale precast CFRP-reinforced prestressed specimens. L...

This work examines different spatial and sociodemographic models for predicting residential fire counts at the census tract level 118 U.S. departments across 25 states. The give five-year forecasts of 3392 tracts which contain over 13 million residents in total. All described this paper train on incident data from National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) interval 2006–2011 (inclusive) ar...

Every day there are environmental emergency situations which require complex reasoning and coordination procedures to solve them. Recently, the Prestige oil tanker sinking in Galicia or floods in the Mediterranean coast each autumn are situations not solved/managed for different reasons, such as not having contingence plans, lack of previous cases or the lack of coordination between the entitie...

The occurrence of a fire, no matter how small, often exposes objects to significant levels of contamination from the products of combustion. The production and dispersal of these contaminants has been an issue of relevance in the field of fire science for many years, though little work has been done to examine the contamination levels accumulated within an enclosure some time after an incident....

OBJECTIVES To assess critical incident exposure among prehospital emergency services personnel in the developing world context of South Africa; and to assess associated mental health consequences. METHODS We recruited a representative sample from emergency services in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, to participate in this cross sectional epidemiological study. Questionnaires covered ...

by ryan fries, ph.d., p.e., mashrur a. chowdhury, ph.d., p.e., yongchang ma, ph.d., and anne e. dunning, ph.d. inTroducTion Traffic congestion is an increasingly significant problem on America’s highways, wasting time and fuel while increasing emissions.1 Most American roadways (approximately 60 percent) are already congested, and drivers spend more time traveling than ever before.2 Reducing co...