scholarly journals Valutazione del rischio di incendi boschivi a livello locale: una proposta metodologica | Fire risk assessment on a local scale: a methodological approach

2005 ◽  
Vol 156 (9) ◽  
pp. 331-337
Author(s):  
Marco Conedera ◽  
Patrick Roth ◽  
Gabriele Corti ◽  
Daniele Ryser
Keyword(s):  
Fire Management ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Fire Suppression ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Fire Control ◽  
Fire Risk Analysis ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
In Fire

Fire-services are often unable to obtain a rapid overview of problems connected with wildfire fighting. In the last few decades the ideology for fire fighting has shifted from fire control(basically fire suppression) to fire management (including prevention,planning, and simulating). As a result, fire management is now included in landscape planning processes. The preliminary step in fire management is fire risk analysis, which takes into account fire hazard (probability and expected severity of a fire) and the outcome (total impact on the affected environment). In this contribution we present an approach for assessing fire risk on local levels in southern Switzerland.

Changing fuel management strategies - The challenge of meeting new information and analysis needs

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan G. Conard ◽  
Timothy Hartzell ◽  
Michael W. Hilbruner ◽  
G. Thomas Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Fire Management ◽  
Wildland Fire ◽  
Fire Suppression ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Fuel Management ◽  
Burned Areas ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
In Fire

This paper was presented at the conference ‘Integrating spatial technologies and ecological principles for a new age in fire management’, Boise, Idaho, USA, June 1999 ‘The earth, born in fire, baptized by lightning since before life"s beginning, has been and is a fire planet.’ E.V. Komarek Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent years, burned areas and cost of fires have begun to increase, in part due to fuel buildups resulting from fire suppression. The importance of fire as an ecosystem process is also being increasingly recognized. These factors are leading to changes in Federal agency fire and fuels management policies, including increased emphasis on use of prescribed fire and other treatments to reduce fuel loads and fire hazard. Changing fire management strategies have highlighted the need for better information and improved risk analysis techniques for setting regional and national priorities, and for monitoring and evaluating the ecological, economic, and social effects and tradeoffs of fuel management treatments and wildfires. The US Department of Interior and USDA Forest Service began the Joint Fire Science Program in 1998 to provide a sound scientific basis for implementing and evaluating fuel management activities. Development of remote sensing and GIS tools will play a key role in enabling land managers to evaluate hazards, monitor changes, and reduce risks to the environment and the public from wildland fires.

scholarly journals Fire load survey in multi-storey wholesale premise – a case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Nurud S. S. ◽  
Abdullah I. ◽  
Saari M ◽  
NorMariah A. ◽  
Rafee B
Keyword(s):  
Fire Suppression ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Fire Severity ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Fire Load ◽  
Design Fire ◽  
In Fire ◽  
Combustible Materials

A combustible material is one of fire hazard where the amount of combustible materials or fire load could affect the heat release and fire severity in enclosure. The fire severity in the context of fire load is related to intensity and duration of fire in enclosure. Fire load survey is conducted in this study to estimate the amount of combustible materials in wholesale premise since it become threat to life safety and property loss. The determinations of fire load in 3-storey wholesale premise in Kuantan city is conducted by using combination fire load survey method; weighing and inventory method. Result from fire load survey can help to determine the sufficient requirements of fire suppression in premise as well as fire fighters intervention strategy. An extension of this study, the data could be used as an important input to design fire for deterministic analysis in fire risk assessment to quantify the level of fire risk towards life, property and environment.

From fire suppression to fire management: Advances and resistances to changes in fire policy in the savannas of Brazil and Venezuela

2018 ◽  
Vol 185 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludivine Eloy ◽  
Bibiana A. Bilbao ◽  
Jayalaxshmi Mistry ◽  
Isabel B. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Suppression ◽  
Fire Policy ◽  
In Fire

Prediction of Areas Prone to Lightning Ignition

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
RHD McRae
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Historic Records ◽  
In Fire ◽  
Meso Scale

A method for handling lightning-caused ignitions as part of a comprehensive fire hazard assessment procedure is presented. The locations at which lightning ignitions tend to occur have always been difficult to predict, and do not correlate with usual environmental factors. The model described here uses geographic information system techniques to remove large-scale trends in elevation. The meso-scale residual can be used to predict sites that are prone to lightning ignitions. The model is compared to historic records of lightning ignitions for the ACT, and is found to work very well. A range of other uses for the technique in fire management are discussed.

A Computer-Based System for Fire Management in the Mountains of the Cape Province, South-Africa

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
DM Richardson ◽  
BW van Wilgen ◽  
DC Le Maitre ◽  
KB Higgins ◽  
GG Forsyth
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Prescribed Burning ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Water Yield ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Fire Control ◽  
Mountain Areas

This paper describes a Catchment Management System (CMS) that provides objective procedures for managing fire. Prescribed burning is carried out in the mountain catchments of the Cape Province, South Africa, to enhance water yield, to rejuvenate the indigenous shrubland vegetation, to reduce fire hazard and to control invasive alien plants. Fire is the only practical tool for achieving these aims in the mountainous terrain. Recent research has improved understanding of the response of these systems to fire, but managing fire to achieve goals is very difficult. The CMS comprises a central geographical information system for managing and processing spatial data, linked to personal computers with DBase IV data-bases and simple rule-based models for decision-making. Current applications are: prioritization of areas for burning, monitoring the success of fire management, mapping fire hazard for fire control planning, and the production of management summaries and statistics. This paper presents examples of these applications from three areas in the Cape Province with different management problems and priorities: the Kammanassie in the southern Cape, and the Kogelberg and Table Mountain areas in the western Cape.

scholarly journals Methodology of fire risk analysis in electrical installations of a production facility

2022 ◽  
Vol 1211 (1) ◽  
pp. 012001
Author(s):  
O K Nikolsky ◽  
Yu D Shlionskaya ◽  
M A Gabova ◽  
A N Kachanov ◽  
V A Chernyshov
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Probabilistic Assessment ◽  
Production Facility ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Fire Risk Analysis ◽  
Risk Assessment And Management

Abstract This article lists the principles of fire risk assessment and management of electrical installations, provides the main terms used in this subject area, and their meanings. The article also talks about factors affecting the magnitude of fire risk (risk-forming factors). Special attention is paid to the human factor. Formulas for probabilistic assessment of fire risks of electrical installations and an algorithm for assessing the fire hazard of electrical installations, as well as a scheme of the algorithm for calculating individual fire risk are given.

scholarly journals Battery Train Fire Risk on a Steel Warehouse Structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine Mira ◽  
Nicole Braxtan ◽  
Shen-En Chen ◽  
Tiefu Zhao ◽  
Lynn Harris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lithium Ion Battery ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Lithium Ion ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Fire Propagation ◽  
Fire Risk Analysis ◽  
Energy Demands

Lithium ion battery fire hazard has been well-documented in a variety of applications. Recently, battery train technology has been introduced as a clean energy concept for railway. In the case of heavy locomotives such as trains, the massive collection of battery stacks required to meet energy demands may pose a significant hazard. The objective of this paper is to review the risk evaluation processes for train fires and investigate the propagation of lithium ion battery fire to a neighboring steel warehouse structure at a rail repair shop through a case study. The methodology of the analyses conducted include a Monte Carlo-based dynamic modeling of fire propagation potentials, an expert-based fire impact analysis, and a finite element (FE) nonlinear fire analysis on the structural frame. The case study is presented as a demonstration of a holistic fire risk analysis for the lithium ion battery fire and results indicate that significant battery fire mitigations strategies should be considered.

Relating Burning Index to Wildfire Workload Over Broad Geographic Areas

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Mees ◽  
R Chase
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Fire Suppression ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Control Problems ◽  
Fire Control ◽  
Heavy Tailed Distributions ◽  
Heavy Tailed ◽  
Burning Index ◽  
The Right ◽  
In Fire

The burning index of the National Fire Danger Rating System is designed to measure potential fire workload over broad geographic areas that can be repre sented as being homogeneous with respect to fuel, topo graphic, and weather conditions. The utility of this index is confirmed by its relation to three measures of fire workload-number of fires, area burned, and number of personnel used in fire suppression for National Forests in southern California. The distributions of these mea sures over 15 years were skewed heavily to the right ("heavy-tailed distributions"). We selected the75 th, 90th, and 95th percentile values of each distribution at ten percentile values of the burning index to investigate and display the association between fire workload and the burning index. The results provide a distinct view of the direct relationship between wildfire workload and critical burning index values for the southern California area as a whole, and point to the potential value of this approach for anticipating fire control problems in other areas.

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