The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is a zone of transition between wilderness (unoccupied land) and land developed by human activity – an area where a...
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Fire engine (redirect from Wildland-urban interface engine)
effect technical rescues, while departments that operate in the wildland-urban interface will need the gear to deal with brush fires. Some fire engines...
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Wildfire suppression (redirect from Wildland firefighting)
wilderness. Wildfire suppression also addresses the issues of the wildland–urban interface, where populated areas border with wild land areas. In the United...
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Wildfire (redirect from Wildland fire)
smoke and fire, as well as destruction of property (especially in wildland–urban interfaces), and economic losses. There is also the potential for contamination...
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(17,000 km2) burned yearly, in fires that lasted for months. A wildland–urban interface (or WUI) refers to the zone of transition between unoccupied land...
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aspect of wildfire policy that is gaining more attention is the wildland-urban interface (WUI). More and more people are living in "red zones," or areas...
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development into the wildland-urban interface, or WUI. This area consists of developed areas either adjacent to, or intermingled with, wildland vegetation and...
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Oakland firestorm of 1991 (category Urban fires in the United States)
The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a large suburban wildland–urban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California...
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Manzello was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface Fires published in 2020. 2015 Harry C. Biggelstone Award from the...
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the state's residents live within a transition zone known as the wildland-urban interface which provides both increased challenges to fire suppression tactics...
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afternoon of September 4, 2011, three separate fires ignited in the wildland–urban interface east of Bastrop, Texas, after strong winds caused by the nearby...
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Camp Fire (2018) (section Wildland and climate)
hours. Residential development into wilderness areas, known as wildland–urban interface, requires increased state resources to safeguard these communities...
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called ashes. Embers play a large role in forest fires, wildland fires or wildland urban interface fires. Because embers are typically burnt leaves and thus...
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North America, fennel can be found from the coastal and inland wildland-urban interface east into hill and mountain areas, excluding desert habitats. On...
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had been formed to support affected communities. More than 250 wildland urban interface personnel from across Alberta arrived on July 27 and hundreds of...
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space" is also used in the context of wildfires, especially in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). This defensible space reduces the risk that fire will spread...
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Municipal and rural fire departments which fight brush fires and wildland/urban interface fires Private contractors who contract with government agencies...
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Wildfire modeling (redirect from Wildland fire simulation)
Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Large Eddy Simulation developed in 2009, Los Alamos National Laboratory's FIRETEC developed in, the WUI (wildland–urban interface) Fire...
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Conservation Code (IECC) ICC Performance Code (ICCPC) International Wildland Urban Interface Code (IWUIC) International Existing Building Code (IEBC) International...
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"Executive Order -- Wildland-Urban Interface Federal Risk Mitigation". whitehouse.gov. 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2019-02-09. "Wildland-Urban Interface Federal Risk...
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carried out. In addition to these factors, human development in the wildland–urban interface aided fire spread. Many homes were built in vulnerable locations...
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required to manage waste from its source to its final disposal Wildland–urban interface – Transition zone between wilderness and developed land Affluenza –...
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and Fire Protection, including five of the 20 most destructive wildland-urban interface fires in the state's history. Throughout 2017, the fires destroyed...
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impacts can be compounded by fire suppression, development in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), and non-climate informed timber harvest and reforestation...
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confined space victims, wildland/urban interface initial fire suppression, underwater rescue/recovery, high angle rope rescue, wildland search & rescue (SAR)...
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control and emergency services. Florida had its first serious "wildland urban interface" fire in 1985 with the Palm Coast Fire, which burned 131 homes...
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Wildland Fire Management. National Park Service. Archived from the original on December 30, 2006. Retrieved April 18, 2010. "Wildland Urban Interface"...
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Used in Vented Construction US Fire Administration Page on its Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) toolkit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fire dampers...
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assistance to communities for fire protection, especially in the wildland-urban interface. This article incorporates public domain material from Jasper...
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Guerrilla Survival skills Survivalism Wide area synchronous grid Wildland-urban interface Zero energy building Wiring diagram for a hybrid wind/PV system...
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