- Author
- Countryman, C. M.
- Title
- Mass Fires and Fire Behavior.
- Coporate
- Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experimental Station, Berkeley, CA
- Report
- Research Paper PSW-19, 1964, 53 p.
- Keywords
- mass fires | fire behavior | forest fires | urban fires | thermal radiation
- Identifiers
- thermal damage
- Abstract
- The control of large fires is a problem of continuing concern to the Forest Service, other public agencies, and private owners of forest and rangeland. A few large fires each year account for all but a small share of the Nation's forest fire losses. In time of war, this problem can be of vital concern to civil defense. Modern weapons make it possible to ignite mass fires in both rural and urban areas. To improve their ability to combat such catastrophes, the fire services need much more quantitative knowldege of the characteristics and behavior of large fires.