• The wildlandurban 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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    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 (redirect from Wildland fire)
    smoke and fire, as well as destruction of property (especially in wildlandurban interfaces), and economic losses. There is also the potential for contamination...
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    wilderness. Wildfire suppression also addresses the issues of the wildlandurban interface, where populated areas border with wild land areas. In the United...
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    (17,000 km2) burned yearly, in fires that lasted for months. A wildlandurban 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 wildlandurban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California...
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    fire-structure interaction, and structure vulnerabilities in wildland-urban interface fires in his career. Manzello holds B.S. with honors (1996) and...
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    hours. Residential development into wilderness areas, known as wildlandurban 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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  • 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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    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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    afternoon of September 4, 2011, three separate fires ignited in the wildlandurban interface east of Bastrop, Texas, after strong winds caused by the nearby...
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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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  • 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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    Coordinating Group definition, which was developed and approved by the Wildland Urban Interface Mitigation Committee, is "A human community consisting of informed...
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    carried out. In addition to these factors, human development in the wildlandurban interface aided fire spread. Many homes were built in vulnerable locations...
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    Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Large Eddy Simulation developed in 2009, Los Alamos National Laboratory's FIRETEC developed in, the WUI (wildlandurban interface) Fire...
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    required to manage waste from its source to its final disposal Wildlandurban interface – Transition zone between wilderness and developed land Affluenza –...
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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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    California Guidebook: Sustainable and Fire-Safe Landscapes In The Wildland Urban Interface. University of California Cooperative Extension, September 2009...
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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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  • "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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    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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    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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    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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  • confined space victims, wildland/urban interface initial fire suppression, underwater rescue/recovery, high angle rope rescue, wildland search & rescue (SAR)...
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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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