The time between when a fire crew is dispatched to a fire and when it arrives is an important factor in determining the size of a forest-fire and the resources required to put the fire out. Traditionally, travel time has been looked at as a point-to-point network problem. In this case, travel (by vehicle and by foot) may start and end at an infinite number of locations across the landscape. A r...

Limited dynamic resources (fire fighting staff and fire equipment) have to be allocated on the basis of spatio-temporal factors, which may influence fire hazard and vulnerability (risk) in urban environments. On the one hand there is a need to develop a model that inputs spatio-temporal variables and enables spatial analysis of such variables for the assessment of composite fire hazard and vuln...

This paper provides an overview of the literature on sensory integration in young children. First it explains the importance of "sensory integration" in child development and normal functioning. It goes on to note signs of a sensory integration dysfunction (such as hyper-or hypo-sensitivity to touch, poor coordination, and poor behavioral control) . Normal sensory development in infants is brie...

The responses of tallgrass prairie plant communities and ecosystem processes to fire and grazing are well characterized. However, responses of invertebrate consumer groups, and particularly soil-dwelling organisms, to these disturbances are not well known. At Konza Prairie Biological Station, we sampled soil macroinvertebrates in 1994 and 1999 as part of a long-term experiment designed to exami...

Between 2002 and 2012, the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior spent on average $3.13 billion per year on wildland fire protection [1]. Nearly $1 billion of that funding was devoted solely to fire suppression efforts. Currently, allocating resources for fire suppression is a subjective process, relying in many cases on individual commanders’ decisions that are based on insuff...

Damage of the urban gas network due to an earthquake can cause much loss including fire-induced loss to infrastructure and loss due to interruption of gas service and repairing or replacing of network elements. In this paper, a new fire ignition model is proposed and applied to a conventional semi-probabilistic model for estimating various losses due to damage of an urban gas network in an eart...

R. C. LATHROP,* , † B. M. JOHNSON,‡ T. B. JOHNSON,§ M. T. VOGELSANG,* S . R. CARPENTER,† T. R. HRABIK,† J . F . KITCHELL,† J . J . MAGNUSON,† L. G. RUDSTAM– and R. S . STEWART* *Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison, WI, USA †Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA ‡Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, ...

This article concerns the statistical modelling of emergency service response times. We apply advanced methods from spatial survival analysis to deliver inference for data collected by the London Fire Brigade on response times to reported dwelling fires. Existing approaches to the analysis of these data have been mainly descriptive; we describe and demonstrate the advantages of a more sophistic...

Emergency situations where lives are at stake, such as natural disasters, accidents, or serious fire, require low reaction times. Especially in sparsely populated areas the distance between the nearest emergency station and its disaster location may be quite large. In order to minimize reaction times, emergency communication is to be prioritized with respect to other network services. For enabl...