Firefighters in Taiwan often wear expired protective clothing, which raises concerns regarding their safety. Extending the service life of fire clothing can improve firefighter safety and ensure environmental sustainability. In this study, an analytic hierarchy process was used to understand risk factors should be prioritized design firefighting turnout gear. We surveyed 30 experts field manage...

Introduction. The development of professional education in the field fire safety is an urgent task, solution which aimed at increasing level protection population and territories from fires. system practical training cadets emergency rescue extinguishing includes improvement skills ability performing fire-drill standards, are basic exercises that form readiness graduate. Problem statement. main...

The dynamic nature of emergency decision making exerts difficulty to decision makers for achieving effective management. In this regard, we suggest a dynamic decision making model based on Markov decision process. Our model copes with the dynamic decision problems quantitatively and computationally, and has powerful expression ability to model the emergency decision problems. We use a wildfire ...

Geographical information systems (GIS) provide forest managers with tools to use in planning forest operations by allowing them to visualize and integrate data into the planning decisions. As the forest planning process becomes increasingly complicated, there is a need to assist forest planners with operative tools. The combined use of GIS and multi-criteria decision methods (MCDM) allows fores...

PFOA and PFOS are two of a large group of Perfluoronated Alkyl Compounds (PFACs). They are synthetic chemicals used in many industrial processes and consumer products. PFACs were widely used by the military in Aqueous Film Forming Foams as firefighting agents. PFOA and PFOS are soluble in water and are very stable and resistant to degradation. Because of their persistence in the environment and...

Abstract Although the overall number of fires is decreasing, special as buildings become larger, taller, and deeper spills in hazardous materials facilities such petroleum complexes on rise ensuring safety firefighters has a problem. The use teleoperated firefighting robots expected to be solution this It important able operate robot well, recognize environment, make decisions what actions take...

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