We simulate virtual crowds in emergency situations caused by an incident, such as a fire, an explosion, or a terrorist attack. We use a continuum dynamics-based approach to simulate the escaping crowd, which produces more efficient simulations than the agent-based approaches. Only the close proximity of the incident region, which includes the crowd affected by the incident, is simulated. We use...

A quantitative tool was developed to predict USDA Forest Service fire suppression expenditures by fiscal year on the basis of fire activity data (i.e., number of fires and acres burned) from Incident Management Situation Reports. Regional regression models were developed with adjusted rsquares ranging from 0.696 to 0.969. National predictions result from aggregating regional predictions. Predic...

Fires in urban areas can cause significant economic, physical and psychological damage. Despite this, there has been a comparative lack of research into the spatial and temporal analysis of fire incidence in urban contexts. In this paper, we redress this gap through an exploration of the association of fire incidence to weather, calendar events and socio-economic characteristics in South-East Q...

This study aimed to assess the wild fire propagation risk wildfires in Itacolomi State Park, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, using GIS and compare efficiency of incident solar radiation over aspect variable. The following variables were used: land cover/use (LCU), slope (SLP), curvature (CUR), (ASP) (SOL). weights each variable calculated from ratio between total area burned class order generate ma...

In the present study, we use various spatial fuels data within a coupled atmospherewildfire model to compare the simulated fire behavior for a small portion of the16,000 acre Calabasas fire that occurred on 21-22 October 1996 in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles County (Bamattre et al., 1997). The fire simulation investigates an intense fire that occurred in an isolated canyon around no...

Critical incident stress debriefings (CISDs) are a form of crisis management for rescuers such as police officers, fire-fighters and others involved in rescue efforts during natural disasters. This article describes a qualitative evaluation study of one police department's CISD implementation. Participant observation and semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten police officers involve...

Purpose The purpose is to report on the mental health response Grenfell incident within London Fire Brigade (LFB). Design/methodology/approach LFB implemented screening for symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at 28 days, 3 months and 6 all personnel directly involved in incident. Findings prevalence PTSD frontline was 13.4% falling 7.6% months. LFB's internal Counselling Wellbeing ...

This practitioner report describes a moorand turf-fire that occurred in 2011 at the Dutch-German border and was engaged by forces both from the Netherlands and Germany. All involved emergency management organizations were facing interoperability issues when it came to cross-border cooperation, although cooperation handbooks were already in use and the involved organizations were used to work to...

Climate change is expected to increase fire events and activity with multiple impacts on human lives. Large grids of forest city monitoring devices can assist in incident detection, accelerating intervention extinguishing fires before they get out control. Artificial Intelligence promises automate the detection fire-related incidents. This study enrols 53,585 fire/smoke normal images benchmarks...