Decision Support Models and Methodologies for Fire Suppression

Wildfires are recurrent natural events that have been increasing in frequency and severity recent decades. They threaten human lives damage ecosystems infrastructure, leading to high recovery costs. To address the issue of wildfires, several activities must be managed coordinated order develop a suitable response is both effective affordable. This includes actions taken before (mitigation, prevention, preparedness), during (response), after event (recovery). Considering available resources safety involved personnel key aspect. article review focused on fire suppression, which comprises belonging preparedness phase (deployment) (dispatching) wildfire management scheme. It goes through models methodologies that, applying operations research optimization techniques, suppression. presents studies published last topic 2017, but also some interesting papers date. concludes with classifying tables few conclusions about possible future lines research.