Understanding how ignitions occur is critical for effectively mitigating home fire losses during wildland fires. The threat of life and property losses during wildland fires is a significant issue for Federal, State, and local agencies that have responsibilities involving homes within and adjacent to wildlands. Agencies have shifted attention to communities adjacent to wildlands through pre-sup...

Queueing networks are studied with two stations: either in tandem or in parallel, and with a common service resource shared among the two stations. First, a necessary and sufficient criterion, called adjoint reversibility, is provided to decide whether the system possesses a product form or not. This criterion unifies both the parallel (a reversible) and the tandem (a non-reversible) system in ...

The field of fire protection engineering is characterized by the cooperation of experts and by the distribution of knowledge resources. The availability of relevant knowledge in all states of the planning process is the basis for a high product quality and for optimal conditions for the rescue of persons. Hence, this project aims to create a knowledge based planning environment that offers mult...

Climate change is expected to alter the geographic distribution of wildfire, a complex abiotic process that responds to a variety of spatial and environmental gradients. How future climate change may alter global wildfire activity, however, is still largely unknown. As a first step to quantifying potential change in global wildfire, we present a multivariate quantification of environmental driv...

Reduced frequency of fire in historically fire-adapted ecosystems may have adverse effects on ecosystem structure, function, and resilience. Lack of fire increases stand density and promotes successional replacement of seral dominant trees by late-successional, more shade-tolerant species. These changes are thought to increase competition for limited resources among trees and to increase physio...

JOHN A. STANTURF1, BRIAN J. PALIK2, MARY I. WILLIAMS3, R. KASTEN DUMROESE4, and PALLE MADSEN5 1Center for Forest Disturbance Science, Southern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, Athens, Georgia, USA 2Center for Research on Ecosystem Change, Northern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA 3School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Michigan Technologi...

Roger W. Perry, Southern Research Station, USDA forest Service, Hot Springs, AR 71902 Philip A. Tappe, Arkansas Forest Resources Center, School of Forest Resources, University of Arkansas, Monticello, AR 71656 David G. Peitz, Arkansas Forest Resources Center, School of Forest Resources, University of Arkansas, Monticello, AR 71656 Ronald E. Thill, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service,...

Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 2E5, Canada, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 1992 Folwell Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA, Southern Research Station, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, 3041 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA, ...

Fire accidents inside the mine are one of the most horrifying disasters in the mining industrial field. It causes the number of casualties of the miners and the wastage of the valuable natural resources. It is the prime and primitive requirement to find out some technique or process to predict the possibility of fire so that the causes could be prevented for which the conditions of the broke ou...