Background and Objectives: Earthquake can be the source of many secondary disasters. Fire is one of the most important secondary hazards after the earthquake. In some cases, post-earthquake fires, in urban areas, may cause far more severe damages than the earthquake itself. After the earthquake, the risk of fire is greatly increased due to the existence of sources of fire, such as arteries of g...

Fire causes destructive effects on soil, water and components of wetland ecosystems. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of fire on runoff amount and nutrient concentration of Zrebar Lake watershed between 2014 and 2017 and the return of burned areas to their natural conditions in the short, medium and long term. The results showed that in the fourth year after the fire, the am...

Abstract  Fire in natural resources is one of the crises that causes irreparable damage to ecosystems and the environment every year. The purpose of this research is to attempt to study areas of risk aversion and to prepare a map of forest fire hazard area by integrating topographic data and other additional information from a GIS system for Golestan province. In order to carry out this resear...

The changes in soil nutrients and aggregate stability either in short-term or in long-term after fire is very important in forest ecosystems due to their key role in plants growth and preventing soil erosion. In the present investigation the short, medium, and long-term effect of fire was surveyed on these properties for the first time in Iran. For this purpose a plot of Zagros forests was sele...

Analysis of the Location of Urban Fire Stations Case Study: Piranshahr City I. Ebrahimzadeh[1] D. Kashefidoost[2] A. Hosseini[3] 1. Introduction The first key point in order to allocate city facilities and proper use of them especially during the crisis, is choosing (selecting) the optimum location (place) regarding to different and sometimes contradictory conditions. This becomes more importan...

Nowadays automated early warning systems are essential in human life. One of these systems is fire detection which plays an important role in surveillance and security systems because the fire can spread quickly and cause great damage to an area. Traditional fire detection methods usually are based on smoke and temperature detectors (sensors). These methods cannot work properly in large space a...

Background and aims: Accidents happened as a result of LPG leakage emphasizes the importance of the consequence analysis of fire and explosion in LPG storage tanks. The purpose of this study is to analysis the consequences of fire and explosion in a cylindrical LPG storage tank in an oil and gas industry. Method: In this analytical study, four possible failure scenarios including 1...