Wildfire Management Flashcards
1
Q
How can you predict wildfires?
A
- Remote sensing
- Monitoring
2
Q
How can you prepare for wilfires?
A
- Education
- Modelling
- Warning systems
- Well insures
- Managing vegetation
3
Q
What preventative methods are there for wildfires?
A
- Managing the build environment- houses far enough apart they win’t set fire to one another if one is on fire, away from burnable vegetation
- Managing the vegetation - spaces between vegetation, vegetation that won’t burn easily.
- Education - 97% US wildfires are started by humans
- Controlled - removes fuels to burn
4
Q
What are the responses to wildfires?
A
- Community action - replanting trees
- Evacuation
- Control from both air and land
- Fire breaks
- Controlled burns
- Trenches
