Fire

Forest Fires Forest Thinning exists in most forests in the United States, and many overseas. The act of forest thinning is cutting down trees and removing foliage from forests in order to make them uncluttered. This action is commonly referred to as “logging.” Some people believe that uncluttering forests helps in the prevention of forest fires, along with other benefits such as making the forests appear cleaner. Other people argue that forest thinning is the primary initiator of forest fires…

It is well known that fire fighters expose themselves to many hazards, from toxic gases, structural collapse, to fire and extreme heat. They don’t do it for glory but for the desire to help protect property and the people in their community. To help minimize risk to their health and safety, fire fighters use and carry protective equipment and wear specialized protective clothing, known as PPE. The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and the fire truck and equipment it carries has evolved…

Thousands upon thousands of acres are lost in forest fires every year. There are so many horrible effects from fires and most of them affect so many people. Studies have shown that out of all of the different methods to decrease fire damage, prescribed burns are the most effective. Prevention is the key to society these days and is definitely an important factor in saving lives. Reduction of fuels, prevention of vegetative communities, and improvement of wildlife habitat are happening because of…

Fire has been used by humans for at most 1.5 million years, but now everyone either uses or experiences fire in some way. Wood needs a base temperature of 356 ℉ to ignite, but normally there's more to it than that. Most wood has water inside it and fire cannot burn with water, so a fire will heat the wood to a temperature of 212℉, so that the water inside the wood boils and escapes as steam (Synonym ). As wood dries, at 572℉ it begins to release combustible gases that ignite when they…

Wildfires are a dangerous threat, and these uncontrolled fires can become highly destructive if not prepared for. Wildfires can not only harm the environment, but can also harm us if they is not dealt with and spreads to human communities. Because of this, it is the job of firefighters to expunge wildfires before they become more destructive than they already are. However, simply expunging a wildfire after it starts isn't the best option to prevent them, since it leaves fuels (leaf litter and…

assume that a forest firefighter's job is to stop forest fires but they do a lot more. Forest firefighters looks like an interesting career. My purpose of writing this research paper is to inform people about forest firefighters. I think Forest firefighter’s job is to put an end to forest fires/wildfires or use tools to avoid forest fires; or reduce the harm the fire did. When forest firefighter’s gets a message that there has been a fire they go to the scene. Forest firefighter’s creates a…

suggests that the fire caused damage to the park’s trees and vegetation.On the contrary, the professor in the listening points out that the plant became more diverse because the fire made an opportunity for plants that could not grow otherwise. Some smaller plants that needed open and shaded space to grow.After the fire,the trees were burned out so that those plants had a better environment. And some plants species won’t grow up unless they’re contacted with high levels of heat.The fire could…

fight fire with fire". To people who do not understand why a controlled burn is beneficial and effective, this seems like a perfectly valid argument. The purpose of a controlled burn is to limit the amount of fuel in an area that an actual fire can consume. Wildfires can cost millions of dollars of damage and a controlled burn is a relatively cheap and simple way of preventing such destruction. A controlled burn helps the environment by preventing larger and more destructive forest fires from…

Burn: A Political History of the Fire Coast, with strong imagery: “consuming hundreds of homes in an inexorable march across the mountains to the sea” (par 1). Davis then constructs a premise that wildfires will continue to cause immense damage as long as private residential homes continue to exist in the Santa Monicas. He rebuts this premise by offering numerous historical examples such as the wildfire in 1835 in Jose Tapia's Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit and the 1903 fire that started in…

crews started in Southern California in the late 1940s on the Cleveland and Angeles National Forests (Interagency Hotshot Crews). It is no surprise how they got their name do to the fact that Hotshots are in the most dangerous and hottest part of the fire. Hotshot crews are the first ones sent into the thick of it. These crews are usually the most in shape and experienced crews that can be sent in on foot to remote areas. There are many times that these crews are also flown in or shuttled by jet…