Article history: Received 8 February 2007 Received in revised form 4 December 2007 Accepted 4 December 2007 Fire is an important land management tool for smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon. However, when fires are not properly controlled they can give rise to large-scale wildfires that threaten forests, agricultural plantations, and settlement areas. We use data from a survey of 220 household...

A Novel Remote Monitoring of Forest Fire Detection based on WSN VAIJANATH V. YERIGERI , PRAMOD ARVIND KULKARNI 1 Professor & HOD, Department of Instrumentation Engg. Professor & HOD, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering M.B.E.Society’s College of Engineering AMBAJOGAI-431517 ,Dist:BEED(MS) _________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: A...

When fires occur in the OR, they are devastating and potentially fatal to both patients and health care workers. Fires can be prevented by understanding the fire triangle and methods of reducing fire risk, conducting fire risk assessments, and knowing how to respond if a fire occurs. This Back to Basics article addresses the basics of fire prevention and the steps that can be taken to prevent f...

Fire is a rare but potentially disastrous operating room misadventure. In this article, the authors describe the elements of operating room fires and present an illustrative case. The risk of fire can be minimized when the operating room team understands the interactions among the three sides of the classic fire triangle: oxidizers, fuels, and ignition sources. Lists of fire prevention techniqu...