Fire, Volume 7, Issue 1

Efficient evacuation route planning during underground coal mine fires is essential to minimize casualties. This study addresses current shortcomings by proposing a real-time method that integrates a multifactor coupling analysis and the optimized mu...

Identifying the underlying factors derived from geospatial and remote sensing data that contribute to forest fires is of paramount importance. It aids experts in pinpointing areas and periods most susceptible to these incidents. In this study, we emp...

This study describes spatial and temporal patterns in fire across the US Western Great Plains over the last 40 years. Although pyrogeographic studies have explored the nexus of fire patterns in relation to the bio-physical environment and socio-ecolo...

The enormous potential of renewable bioresources is expected to play a key role in the development of the EU’s sustainable circular economy. In this context, inexhaustible, biodegradable, non-toxic, and carbon-neutral forest-origin resources ar...

This study delved into the combustion properties of combined glulam bonded using polyurethane (PUR) and resorcinol-phenol-formaldehyde (RPF) adhesives. The experiment involved three distinct wood species, namely, spruce, alder, and beech, which were...

Given the growing demand for increased energy capacity and power density in battery systems, ensuring thermal safety in lithium-ion batteries has become a significant challenge for the coming decade. Effective thermal management plays a crucial role...

Since the Palaeozoic era, fire as a potent driver of environmental changes, has dramatically shaped the terrestrial ecosystems. Fire affects soil structure and composition, which in turn affects the floral diversity of an area. This research work aim...

Intense burning phenomena (fire disasters) need to be prevented in the combustible gas utilization and transportation processes to ensure industrial safety. Nonmetallic spherical spacers (NSSs) have been investigated and applied in lots of explosive...

Spatial and temporal estimates of burned areas are often used to model greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions from fire events that occur in a region of interest and over specified time frames. However, fire behaviour, fuel consumption, fire seve...

Fireproof sealing technology is widely used in industrial, commercial, and other public buildings, so the performance of fireproof sealing materials in high temperatures or fire environments must be taken into account as an important factor. Fireproo...

Horizontal oil tanks, like other oil storage containers, carry the risk of explosion when gasoline–air mixtures are ignited. With the widespread application of horizontal oil tanks in the petrochemical industry, attention to safety risks is inc...

Fire risk assessment is a crucial step in effective fire control, playing an important role in reducing fire losses. It has remained a significant topic in the field of fire safety. To explore the research hotspots and frontier trends in fire risk as...

Fire is a disturbance that serves to maintain the diverse mosaic of vegetation in the Eastern Deciduous Forest. However, our ability to reconstruct fire occurrence from hardwood tree scars still lags far behind our expertise in reconstructing fire hi...

Fire is one of the principal factors influencing subalpine ecosystem succession. Species numbers and plant compositions are used to determine postfire disturbance, vegetation, structural change, and succession. Ecologists also integrate species diver...

In 2023, Greece faced its worst wildfire season, with nine major fires causing unprecedented environmental damage of 1470.31 km². This article uses Copernicus Land Monitoring Service and Sentinel-2 data, employing advanced remote sensing and GIS tech...

The quantitative assessment of forest fire severity is significant for understanding the changes in ecological processes caused by fire disturbances. As a novel spectral index derived from the multi-objective optimization algorithm, the Analytic Burn...

Compared to longitudinal ventilation, there are few studies on fire source development under semi-transverse ventilation. This work studied the influence of semi-transverse ventilation on the combustion characteristics of fire sources in a scaled tun...

Time to flashover is an important fire safety parameter. The present study investigated the effects of fuel moisture content on the time to flashover, crucial in fire safety analysis. Experiments and simulations of an ISO 9750-1 room model at 1/8 sca...

High-rise buildings (HRBs) are prone to high fire hazards due to their high occupant density, limited evacuation routes, and high fire load. The indicator system method, as a systematic evaluation method, is widely applied to assess HRB fire risk. Ho...

Smoke detectors are the most widely used fire detectors due to their high sensitivity. However, they have persistently faced issues with false alarms, known as nuisance alarms, as they cannot distinguish smoke particles, and their responsiveness vari...

The development and importance of tunnels are increasing worldwide, and countries like Korea, where about 70% of the total land is covered with mountain regions, need more tunnel constructions to connect different routes of roads for safe and efficie...

Forest fire risk prediction is essential for building a forest fire defense system. Ensemble learning methods can avoid the problem of difficult model selection for disaster susceptibility prediction and can significantly improve modeling accuracy. T...

Fire spread scenarios associated with concealed cavity spaces have been relatively less discussed. The variation in studies with respect to geometry, influential parameters, and protection strategies has been an obstacle to deriving more generalized...

The knowledge of the effects of fuel dryness on fire occurrence is critical for sound forest fire management planning, particularly in a changing climate. This study aimed to analyze the monthly distributions of MODIS active fire (AF) detections and...

This paper studies the influence of hydrogen volume fraction effects on the temperature distribution of diffusion turbulent propane jet flames. Numbers of experimental scenarios have been carried out to investigate the evolution of temperature distri...

Indonesia needs a daily monitoring system due to its frequent fires and, more importantly, to assist stakeholders in the field in taking action to mitigate disasters. Our method simplified the number of hotspots for field-based purposes and was verif...

Accidental hydrogen releases from pipelines pose significant risks, particularly with the expanding deployment of hydrogen infrastructure. Despite this, there has been a lack of thorough investigation into hydrogen leakage from pipelines, especially...

As global climate change and human activities increasingly influence our world, forest fires have become more frequent, inflicting significant damage to ecosystems. This study conducted measurements of combustible materials (moisture content ratio, i...

Natural hazards such as wildfires have proven to be more frequent in recent years, and to minimize losses and activate emergency response, it is necessary to estimate their impact quickly and consequently identify the most affected areas. Volunteered...

One of the primary tools used for determining the origin of a wildfire is analyzing burn patterns formed during the fire progression. These patterns, called fire pattern indicators, are interpreted and used to document the direction of fire movement...

The pool fires that occur behind obstructions in a ventilated environment are very different from other wind-blown pool fires. The pool fire formed by fuel leakage in an engine nacelle is a typical example of a pool fire influenced by cross winds and...

Due to its wide monitoring range and low cost, visual-based fire detection technology is commonly used for fire detection in open spaces. However, traditional fire detection algorithms have limitations in terms of accuracy and speed, making it challe...

As environmental conservation and sustainability gain prominence globally, modern timber structures are receiving increased focus. Nonetheless, the combustible nature of timber raises significant fire safety concerns. This review explores the recent...

BRIDGE (bridging science and local communities for wildfire risk reduction) is an action–research project developing a community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) process which is being fostered through a collaborative innovation laboratory...