- Author
-
Chandrasekaran, R.
|
Shephard, R. W.
- Title
- Optimal Strategies of Fire Fighting by Firebreaks.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Report
-
ORC 66 20
October 1966
34 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
-
fire breaks
|
fire fighting
|
wildland fires
|
fire suppression
|
fire spread
- Abstract
- In simple terms there are two ways of fighting wildland fires: (1) directly attacking the combustion with water, borate bombs, or other extinguishers, (2) indirectly constructing firebreaks which consists essentially in removing fuel along certain pathes of some width which circumscribe the fire so as to stop further spread. The first method is effective for early suppression of the development of a wildland fire, while the second is generally requiredfor well developed fires of large magnitude. We are concerned here with the optimal constructon of firebreaks.