Red Flag Warnings. Filter - control incident types displayed on map. Prescribed Fire. Burned Area Response. Zoom to your location. Reset map zoom and position. Keeping a three-metre area around the BBQ free of vegetation. Place a fine mesh screen over the grill to stop sparks.
Stay with your grill and soak the ashes in water. Making sure you have water tanks filled for firefighting. Keep a diesel or gas powered pump on hand. An electric pump may not work if the power goes out. Keeping woodpiles away from your home. Making sure all machines have a working spark arrestor.
Not using machines or tools that may cause sparks during dry conditions. If you must use a tool such as a grinder, wet down your working area and have a fire extinguisher handy. If a media asset is downloadable, a download button appears in the corner of the media viewer. If no button appears, you cannot download or save the media.
Text on this page is printable and can be used according to our Terms of Service. Any interactives on this page can only be played while you are visiting our website. You cannot download interactives. Fire can be an incredibly useful tool. We cook our food with fire, warm our homes, light candles, roast marshmallows, shape metals, and create new energy — all with fire.
However, using fire as a tool requires extreme awareness of safety, because it can be incredibly dangerous and destructive. Even a single spark in a dry forest can start a wildfire that engulfs hundreds of thousands of acres. Depending on the weather, these small sparks can wipe out entire forests and cities within days, destroying everything in their path and polluting the air with smoke thick enough to be seen from space.
Learn more about the power and science behind wildfires with this collection of resources. Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water.
These negative impacts can affect human behavior and can prompt mass migrations or battles over clean water. Help your students understand the impact humans have on the physical environment with these classroom resources.
The experimental "dragon's eggs" may help land managers restore degraded prairie. Wildfires are destructive forces, but they can occur naturally. Because of this, certain plants and animals have evolved to depend on periodic wildfires for ecological balance. Control means mopup near the lines is complete and the line is expected to hold.
Why are incident commanders so reluctant to give an accurate report on the containment percentage? We should go back to the orignal clearly defined procedure, based on a mathematical percentage of completed, black, line.
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