Fighting fires and fatigue [2] This PhD began at the Bushfire CRC and was completed in 2016. Firefighters were recruited from across Australia to help gather important data on sleep behaviour during multi-day deployments. The results are important in managing firefighter health and safety, with this research contributing some of the first data about the sleep quantity and quality that firefight...

This paper describes the challenges of predicting structural performance in fires, with a view to the past, the present and the future. Despite the huge advances in computational capability for both fire modelling and structural analysis, it remains very difficult to give accurate predictions of structural performance in a single building with a known fire. Most designers grapple with a known b...

Forest fires are considered as a major and permanent threat for the forests of Cyprus. Every year, forest fires cause enormous and irreparable damage to forest ecosystems and in some cases threaten residential regions. The present work aims at studying the perceptions and attitudes of the residents of the prefecture of Larnaca with regards to the actions of the Cyprus Fire Department and the ot...

The spatial-temporal dynamics of forest fires for last five years in latitudinal range 40-74 degrees of the northern latitude are analyzed with using the data of the radiometer AVHRR/NOAA. It was shown that forest fires are observed from May till September, basically during three summer months with a maximum of the activity during the second half of summer. On a phase of a maximum of an 11-year...

I assess the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution from a widespread series of fires that occurred in Indonesia between April and November of 1997. I describe how the fires occurred and why the associated air pollution was so widespread and long lasting. The main objective is to uncover any mortality effects and to assess how large and important they were. I also investigate wh...

I study a generalized version of a continuous forest-fire model introduced by K. Chen, P. Bak, and M. Jensen (Phys. Lett. A 149, 207 (1990)). Depending on the value of a parameter, the model shows fires of various sizes up to a cutoff size, or a superposition of small fires and fires spreading over the whole system. The phase transition between these two regimes is continuous, but is not accomp...

Large scale fires involving asbestos containing materials are a relatively common occurrence in the UK and can cause significant public concern. The potential public health consequences of such incidents have been explored. Literature reviews were undertaken to identify available information on both the level of asbestos exposures that might result from fires and the potential health impact of ...