The paper presents a study of the use of past experience in emergency management with an application to Forest Fire-Fighting Management. Our objective is the sharing of experience between the emergency managers in order to support the re-planning task, regarded as the relevant task of Forest Fire-Fighting Management. Therefore it is necessary to establish a common working language to facilitate...

The missions for the police and fire fighters are to protect for public safety and to fight and prevent from fires, respectively. In this dynamic environment, however, there are many potential dangers and uncertain factors that can’t be predicted. In order to improve the total performance, some rules extracted from criminal and fire-fighting records are needed. The purpose of this paper is to m...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Among the various hazards fire fighters face are electrical hazards during wildland fire suppression activities. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reports that 10 fire fighters died from contact with electricity during wildland fires between 1980...

The paper dis cusses the development of an associative, neural network as an on-line algorithm to train and control a fire-fighting robot. Learning is externally supervised with encoded target actions. The robot acquires basic navigation skills as well as the ability to detect a fire and to extinguish it. _____________________________________

This project integrates infrared and RGB imagery to produce dense 3D environment models reconstructed from multiple views. The resulting 3D map contains both thermal and RGB information which can be used in robotic fire-fighting applications to identify victims and active fire areas.

Determining the specific mix of fire-fighting resources for a given fire is a necessary condition for identifying the minimum of the Cost Plus Net Value Change (C+NVC) function. Current wildland fire management models may not reliably do so. The problem of identifying the most efficient wildland fire organization is characterized mathematically using integer-programming techniques. This mathema...

A Fire-fighting system, as the name suggests is a system concerned with extinguishing fire using sensors. Such an automated Programmable Logical Controller (PLC) system uses a Jockey Pump, a Main Pump and a Diesel engine. The PLC also monitors the operation of the Diesel engine. In advent of a fire, there should be a continuous flow of water through the hydrant line, pressure of which is regula...