As part of an ongoing research project, geovisualisations of bushfires were delivered at GPS-determined locations to volunteer firefighters from the Country Fire Authority’s Macedon Ranges Group. The participants skill level ranged from basic wildfire firefighter trained through to captain of brigade. The location-based scenario training exercise is called CODE RED: MOBILE. Using information fr...

The Firefighting problem is defined as follows. At time t = 0, a fire breaks out at a vertex of a graph. At each time step t > 0, a firefighter permanently defends (protects) an unburned vertex, and the fire then spread to all undefended neighbors from the vertices on fire. This process stops when the fire cannot spread anymore. The goal is to find a sequence of vertices for the firefighter tha...

Relevance . The job of Federal Fire-Fighting Service (FFS) officers the State EMERCOM Russia is among global top 10 occupations with evident risk health functional reserves depletion, prevalence early occupational diseases, injuries and even death. Traditionally, investigators focus on circulatory diseases how they affect firefighters’ health. objective to provide research-based evidence showin...