One of the major issues in the southern wildland-urban interface is the loss of homes to wildfire. For homeowners who live in an area with a medium to high risk of wildfire, this document provides useful information for protecting your property (see University of Florida/IFAS publication FOR 71 “Landscaping in Florida with Fire in Mind” to determine your wildfire risk, http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/...

Methyl bromide is a highly volatile liquid which disperses rapidly and readily. As a fumigant it ranks amongst the most efficient because of its extremely effective penetrating power and absence of fire or explosion hazard. It is, unfortunately, highly toxic and poisoning occurs readily in circumstances of careless or inadvertent exposure. Before 1940, only 42 cases of methyl bromide poisoning ...

This paper describes the part of a smart monitoring system that uses ZigBee modules to communicate sensory information in case of a fire or bushfire. The proposed system is composed of two parts: A number of remote boards that collect temperature and humidity; and a host board that contains the same type of sensors as the remote board, in addition to wind speed and wind directions sensors. The ...

This research proposed parrondo’s paradox strategies in the serious game of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) using forest fire model, which develop the existence of the parrondo paradox and applied in serious game of RTGS system as switching in the settlement process. The settlement process, that our proposed at this paper, is managed by clearing house. The mechanism at clearing house is a tra...

Odor sensing systems have attracted much attention in recent years, because of being required to develop an objective evaluation method for odors instead of a human sensory test. The odor sensing systems, called the electronic nose (e-nose) systems have been applied to various areas (e.g. food processing area, medical area, welfare area, etc.) [1]. The areas applied the e-nose systems have been...

Many of Indiana fire deaths were in homes with non-working smoke alarms Indiana Mortuary Emergency Response Team (I-MERT) and Indiana Disaster Portable Mortuary Unit (I-DPMU) work together in a mass casualty incident that has overwhelmed local resources. But what's the difference between the two? The Indiana Disaster Portable Mortuary Unit (I-DPMU) has an operational team made up of volunteers ...