Geography 2152F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pinus Ponderosa, Ed Pulaski, Firebreak
4 Feb 2019
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The intense heat drives an invisible chimney of hot air miles into the atmosphere. There are fire scars in the tree rings that show the events of past fire events. All forest fires are put out at 100% suppressions: describe the strategy used by the arrowhead ground-based firefighters to extinguish the. The arrow heads were trying to cut fire breaks around each finger. They were going from fingertip to finger-tip, but this leaves unburned fuel. They tried to create a backfire from the line to the wildfire to deprive of fuel. Attempted to clean out/widen the firebreak by burning all the combustibles before the main fire. The escape fire that saved him also saved that trees that still exists in the ridgeline. The escape fire burned all the fuel around the trees.
