The recent huge technological development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can
provide breakthrough means of fighting wildland fires. We propose an innovative forest …

A major fire disaster is hazardous to both occupants trapped in the built environment and
firefighters during the firefighting operation. Though various construction codes …

Large and severe wildfires are an observable consequence of an increasingly arid
American West. There is increasing consensus that human communities, land managers …

A key area for future work is to quantify the effects of logging and other forest management
regimes beyond site scales to include landscape and regional scales 18. This is important …

The hazard posed by wildland–urban-interface (WUI) fires is recognized by the international
fire research community and features as one of nine research need priority threads in the …

Background Complex interactions between fuel structure and fire substantially affect fire
spread and spatial variability in fire behaviour. Heterogeneous arrangement of the fuel …

Over the past couple of decades, the number of wildfires and area of land burned around the
world has been steadily increasing, partly due to climatic changes and global warming …

Predicting water suppression requirements and its impacts on firefighting strategies and
logistics within the urban environment has been the subject of many previous studies …

One approach to increase community resilience to wildfire impacts is the enhancement of
residential construction standards in an effort to provide protective shelters for families within …

Each year severe wildfires continue to cause significant destruction resulting in the loss of
life, property, critical infrastructure, and the environment. In an effort to increase community …