In the event of an emergency due to a fire or other crisis, a necessary but time consuming pre-requisite, that could delay the real rescue operation, is to establish whether the ground or area can be entered safely by human emergency workers. The objective of the VIEWFINDER research project is to develop robots which have the primary task of gathering data. The robots are equipped with sensors ...

Research Officer, Forest Department, Research Station, Dwellingup W.A. 6213 Western Australia. Abstract: The jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata Sm.) forest of southwestern Australia extends over 21⁄2 million hectares. In addition to the climatic constraints on the formation of high, dense forest, the soils are impoverished and the vegetation is subject to frequent fire. As a consequence, the forest h...

fire blight disease caused by erwinia amylovora is a destructive disease of pome fruits including apple worldwide. use of resistant cultivars is the most efficient method of disease control. in the present research, we investigated genetic resistance of 89 local and imported commercial apple cultivars in natural contaminated conditions to the bacterial disease using beltsville scoring system (u...

AWireless Sensor Network is composed of many tiny, low-power nodes that integrate sensing units, transceivers, and processing unit and wireless communication capabilities. These devices are deployed in a region of interested area to collect the information from the environment, which will be sent to a remote base station. Wireless Sensor Networks are used for many applications, such as surveill...

Subway transportation is one of the most prevalent urban methods globally. Millions people around globe use this medium as their mode daily. However, subway stations may be highly prone to fire, smoke, or explosion accidents. The safety using demands a robust and practical framework assess fire hazards risks. This study provides methodology risk at station. integrates fault tree analysis (FTA) ...

The Forest Inventory and nalysis Program (FI ) of the USD Forest Service conducts a national inventory of down woody materials (DWM) on forestland in the United States. Estimates of DWM for inventory plots occurring in eastern U.S. hardwood forests facilitate largescale assessment of hardwood forest fuel loadings and wildlife habitat. Therefore, the objectives of this study were (1) to quantify...

Tabanan is one of the districts in Bali which has ten sub-districts. The size site will affect handling fire incidents each area district. This relates to response time brigade, who must be able arrive at location after 15 minutes from received report. Travel existing station other remote take more than minutes. considered result delays disasters—the impact adding new fighting posts sub-distric...

Emergency services, including firefighting operations, are complex processes and involve several activities in different stages that function together to achieve a main goal of preventing destruction in human life, property, and environment. This study uses discrete event simulation (DES) to model and improve firefighting operations in the state of Kuwait. The main objective is to reduce the re...

This paper is a progress report of a MCEER research project on the development of multihazard protection technologies for critical facilities. One important component is to consider earthquake and earthquake induced hazards (e.g. fire, haz-mat leakage, power outrage, etc). This paper is concerned with earthquake and subsequent fire hazards. Records from historical earthquakes show that sometime...

BACKGROUND In most accidents causing smoke inhalation only a few victims actually inhale the smoke. The fire at King's Cross provided an opportunity to assess the long term effects of smoke inhalation in a larger number of patients. METHODS Fourteen survivors from the King's Cross underground station fire were assessed for respiratory disability six months after the disaster and 10 were reass...