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Fires can be dangerous, destructive, and deadly, but they are also an essential natural component of healthy ecosystems. The greatest challenge for present and future generations is not to learn the impossible task of preventing all wildfires, but to learn to manage them while protecting people and property. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Global Environmental Change B: Environmental Hazards, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The 'landscape', 'bushfire' or 'forest-fire' problem is exemplified by the destruction of homes and human lives by landscape fires raging out of control. The 'problem' involves a series of landscapes (e.g. wildland and suburb), a series of systems (e.g. biophysical system and environmental-effects system), and a series of time phases (e.g. planning phase). It is a multi-stakeholder, multi-variable, multi-scale problem. Land uses, like 'farmland', imply a set of specific assets and, therefore, particular perceptions of losses. In all land-use designations, at any one point, fire-proneness may be seen as a function of exposure to ignition sources (embers, burning brands or flame radiation and flame contact) and the ease of ignition. The landscape-fire problem has multiple partial 'solutions', not just one overall solution, and these involve social governance, land management (public and private), suppression capacity and personal preparedness. The problem needs to be addressed at multiple temporal and spatial scales in an integrated fashion for the outcome to be of maximal benefit. There will always be a residual risk of severe fire occurrence. Minimisation of residual risk requires effective land management, recurrent funding and the perpetual vigilance of all parties. ... Read more

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On the Fourth of July in 1866, joy turned to tragedy in Portland, Maine. A boy threw a firecracker onto a pile of wood shavings and it erupted in a blaze as residents prepared to celebrate the 110th anniversary of American independence in the momentous time following the Civil War. The violent conflagration killed two people and destroyed all structures on nearly thirty streets. Authors Michael Daicy and Don Whitney, both firefighters, chronicle the day's catastrophic events, as well as the bravery of those who fought the ferocious fire, dispelling the myth that ill-trained firefighting contributed to the devastation. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Reason, published by Reason Foundation on August 1, 2009. The length of the article is 3207 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tweeting under fire: disaster researcher Jeannette Sutton explores how ordinary people create their own media during crises.(Culture and Reviews)(Jeannette Sutton)(Interview)
Author: Jesse Walker
Publication: Reason (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2009
Publisher: Reason Foundation
Volume: 41Issue: 4Page: 42(7)

Article Type: Interview

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"On Your Own: A Family’s Guide to Disaster Preparedness" tells you what to do step by step to ensure your family survives in most any type of disaster or emergency.This comprehensive guide helps you build a family emergency plan that is personalized for your specific needs and likely disaster situations for your locale.The book contains complete lists of emergency supplies, how to build neighborhood emergency response groups, and teaches you practical information such as: how to shut off your water main, how to drain your hot water heater if you need drinking water, what to take to prevent the effects of radiation to your thyroid, how to purify water, and how to build a shelter in place.With this book, you’ll learn how to be a survivor instead of a victim. ... Read more

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This is a good book
It covers everyting you need to know about preparing for possible disaste. I feel that the video format may be better.

This book gave me peace of mind for my family's safety
This is a must have book for your family and a great gift for everyone you care about!We now have a family safety plan and I am in touch with my children's schools and know their disaster plans as well.The book is easy to read and use and it walks you through everything you need to keep your family safe....from a communications plan, to a grab and go emergency supply kit, to exactly what to do in case of fire or other disaster.Our whole family sat down and read it together. It didn't scare the kids at all.Actually, it made them feel confident and powerful, and they thought the whole thing was very cool.In this day and age, any family that doesn't have an emergency plan is leaving themselves at risk.The book covers far more and teaches you far more than the programs the kids get at school.Highly recommended. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on January 1, 1992. The length of the article is 2213 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Putting out the fire of disaster. (includes related article)
Author: John Platt
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1992
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: v36Issue: n1Page: p51(4)

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Disasters have always caputured the imagination. They provide substance for moral tales about the nature of evil and suffering which fill the oral traditions and the book religions. For historians, disasters provide convenient divisions to mark the end of old eras and the beginning of new ones. Disasters, in fact, provide a major occasion for learning about the human condition. This book give insight as to "who is the victim" when a disaster strikes; "how does the media react"; and "what accounts for the fact that communities can have different pattterns of response and recovery?" Book covers following:1. Risk: Are We Prepared?2. Media: Do We Get the Real Story?3. Methodology: How Can The Impact Be Understood.4. Response: What Happens Afterward?5. Materialism: Are We The Things We Own? ... Read more

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Can you choose love? Or does love choose you?

Sydney McKnight, a seasoned disaster responder, is deployed to aid with devastating forest fires in the interior. Bumped to first class for the flight, Sydney meets an attractive and very eligible reporter, Seth Porter, who is also going to cover the fires.

The mission is everything Sydney hopes for until an untrained playboy, Rhys, manipulates his way onto the team. Infuriated, she is determined he will fail to make the grade and be tossed from the team. Seth is Sydney's only link to the outside world and all things "Rhys".

While struggling to accept the outcome of their mission, Sydney battles her emotions for two men while questioning the choices that have left her alone in life. More than one fire burns in the interior as she learns she must first live in order to love. ... Read more

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Chapters: Our Lady of the Angels School Fire. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 183. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire broke out shortly before classes were to be dismissed on December 1, 1958, at the foot of a stairway in the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois. The elementary and middle school was operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. A total of 92 pupils and 3 nuns lost their lives when smoke, heat, and fire cut off their normal means of escape through corridors and stairways. Many were killed when they jumped from second-floor windows (which were as high as a third floor would be on level ground). Another 100 were seriously injured. The disaster was the lead headline story in American, Canadian, and European newspapers. Pope John XXIII sent his condolences from the Vatican in Rome. The severity of the fire shocked the nation and surprised educational administrators of both public and private schools. The disaster led to major improvements in standards for school design and fire safety codes. The fire has been chronicled in two books and an Emmy-winning television documentary, Angels Too Soon, produced by WTTW Channel 11 Chicago. The History Channel also featured the disaster in the television documentary Hellfire, which was an episode in the cable network's "Wrath of God" series. Our Lady of the Angels was an elementary school comprising kindergarten plus eight grades. It was located at 909 North Avers Avenue in the Humboldt Park area on the West Side of Chicago, at the intersection of West Iowa Street and North Avers Avenue (Some sources describe the school as "in Austin"). The school was located in a mostly Italian-American middle class community; the community held several second and third generation immigr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=578821 ... Read more