- Author
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Pyne, S. J.
- Title
- World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth.
- Coporate
- Arizona State University West, Tempe
- Book or Conf
- World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth,
Henry Holt and Co., New York, NY,
389 p.,
1995
- Keywords
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fire prevention
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fire suppression
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fire ecology
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wildland fires
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smoke
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methodology
- Identifiers
- 'Smoke Report' announces the phenomenon; 'Size-Up' assesses the question of how to attack the problem, how to match tools with needs; 'Hotspotting' refers to the triagelike operations that occur at a fire scene in which the most critical parts of a fire are identified and attacked before they become completely uncontrollable; 'Control' is the process by which a fire is systematically contained, its spread halted, and its perimeter secured; 'Mock-Up' is the self-descriptive task of actually extinguishing the fire, or enough of its perimeter that it can be considered safe if the lines are then patrolled; 'After the Last Smoke' refers to the practice by which firefighters return to the scene of a burn twenty-four hours after they sight the last smoke for a final inspection before declaring the fire officially out and writing up the requisite reports