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The science of fighting wildfires


The science of fighting wildfires: See how firefighters are attacking ...

Using firebreaks to fight wildfires ... A core element of the Forest Fire Service strategy, firebreaks are cleared strips of land that prevent a ...

A new approach to fighting wildfires combines local knowledge and AI

Nikk Ogasa is a staff writer who focuses on the physical sciences for Science News. He has a master's degree in geology from McGill University, ...

The science of fire behavior: Training fire analysts in a time of rapidly ...

Fighting wildland fires is never straightforward. Wind direction and speed can change rapidly, trees ravaged by pine beetles can create ...

Fire Science in Preventing Fire Disasters - Anna Maria College Online

The science of fire investigation relies on learning from previous mistakes. By studying wildfire patterns over time, for example, scientists can identify high- ...

Wildland Fire Science | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov

USGS Fire Science is fundamental to understanding the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire and helps prevent and manage larger, catastrophic events.

A New Method of Fighting Wildfires - Scientific Research Publishing

A supplemental approach based on using catapults to hurl containers of water at the fires. This additional source of water would serve to extinguish wildfires ...

Technology to Reduce the Impacts of Wildfires - Homeland Security

Learn How S&T Is Fighting Wildfire with Technology · Wildfire Sensors · Flooding After Wildfires · Wildland Fire Respirators—Helping Firefighters Breathe Easier ...

California Wildfires: The Science Behind Firefighting

Wildfires require three things to exist: fuel, oxygen, and a source of heat. These elements are known as the fire triangle.

Managing Fire | US Forest Service

The Forest Service conducts cutting-edge research and develops tools to help land managers better understand and manage fire. Our scientists study fire behavior ...

Fire Science | Smokey Bear

Wildfires are unplanned fires that burn in forests and other wildlands, such as shrub or grass communities. Preventing and fighting unwanted fires begins ...

Can you really fight fire with fire? - Science | HowStuffWorks

A fire needs oxygen and fuel, such as leaves and vegetation, to continue raging. Rob the fire of either source of nourishment and you squelch the chemical ...

The Science of Wildfires: Why They're Getting Worse | WSJ - YouTube

Global satellite data indicate wildfires are becoming bigger and more intense. WSJ talks with NASA's Doug Morton to understand the science ...

Wildfire science | Environment and Climate Change

When the relative humidity of the air is lower than the fuel moisture, fuels begin to dry. This is an important factor in firefighting, since wet and most green ...

Wildfire Technology: New Ways to Fight Forest Fires - Dryad Networks

Using a robot or a multi-agent RVC, as described by IOP Science, allows first responders to control them using a remote control unit. The units ...

AI is ready to help fight wildfires, and the 'WindNinja' is next

It is a partnership between meteorologists and state forestry departments and land managers (such as fire chiefs and fire officials) to help ...

Suppression | U.S. Department of the Interior

They remove heat by applying water or fire retardant on the ground with pumps or wildland fire engines, or by air using helicopters or airplanes. They remove ...

Supporting a shift in wildfire management from fighting fires to ...

Translational Wildfire Science is proposed as a new holistic cross-disciplinary scientific approach that will better engages with stakeholders to identify ...

How Foresters Fight Wildfires - WV Division of Forestry

Fire is fought using either a direct and indirect fire fighting method. When a structure is on fire, firefighters use a more direct method to ...

Talking Wildfires - North Carolina Wildlife Federation - YouTube

Talking Wildfires: The Science Behind Wildfires and Those Who Fight Them (NC Wildlife Federation) · Comments.

Wildfires | Environmental Defense Fund

Wildfires are unplanned fires that burn in forests, grasslands and other ecosystems, and they can start with a natural event like a lightning strike, ...