- Author
-
Countryman, C. M.
- Title
- Mass Fires and Fire Behavior. First Interim Report.
- Coporate
- Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experimental Station, Berkeley, CA
- Sponsor
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC
- Report
-
First Interim Report,
1964,
7 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- OCD-OS-62-173
OCD-PS-64-32
- Keywords
-
mass fires
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fire behavior
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civil defense
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fire tests
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air flow
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flame whirls
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convection
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pressure
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temperature
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natural resources
- Abstract
- Fire used as a military weapon during World War II often caused greater damage than that resulting from high explosives. And urban and city fires continue to cause extensive damage and large loss of life. The development of nuclear weapons has greatly increased the potential of fire as a weapon. With suburban residential areas spreading into wildland areas and befcoming part of the fuel complex and with the built-upness of cities increasing, mass fire now poses a major threat to civilian populaitons, property, and natural resources.