Download or read book The Oakland Tunnel Fire October 20 1991 written by Oakland (Calif.). Fire Department and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oakland Tunnel Fire October 20 1991 written by Robin Silberman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oakland Berkeley Hills Fire October 20 1991 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wind and Fire II written by University of California, Berkeley. Department of Mechanical Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mass Fire Modeling of the 20 October 1991 Oakland Hills Fire written by Javier de Jesús Trelles and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oakland Fire Department s Response to the Office of Emergency Services Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Biswell Symposium Fire Issues and Solutions in Urban Interface and Wildland Ecosystems written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oakland Co Fire 1869 2004 written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hazard Mitigation Report for the East Bay Fire in the Oakland Berkeley Hills written by United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Region IX. and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oakland Fire Department written by Geoffrey Hunter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 150 years, brave firefighters have battled to preserve the lives and property of the citizens of Oakland. Beginning in 1853, volunteer engine and hook and ladder companies organized and the Oakland Fire Department formed in 1869. Until 1922, teams of magnificent horses pulled steamers belching black smoke and embers, with firemen holding on for dear life. These gallant fire horses were as much firefighters as the rugged men of Oakland who extinguished blazes with leather hoses and brass nozzles. After waging an internal battle of racial integration--a 35-year struggle that began in 1920--the Oakland Fire Department became one of the first in the nation to hire women firefighters beginning in 1980.
Download or read book Causes of the 20 October 1991 Oakland Hills Conflagration written by Patrick J. Pagni and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The October 20th 1991 Oakland Berkeley Firestorm written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Fires written by Philip Nori Omi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From killer fires to ecosystem rehabilitation, an exhaustive survey exploring the ecological, social, and economic consequences of managing fires in U.S. wildland areas. Fire management involves protecting natural resources from fire but also using controlled burning for land management purposes. Who are the stewards of land management and the researchers who devote their entire careers studying fire? How are ecosystems restored after major fires? What are the economic ramifications and what assessment tools are available? Forest Fires: A Reference Handbook explores the historical, ecological, economic, and social dimensions of wildland combustion and their impacts in North America. Explaining how legislation and public perception have been shaped by historic fires and fire seasons, particular emphasis is placed on the summer of 2000 as a way of understanding and managing future fires.
Download or read book Between Two Fires written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America’s fire story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire’s history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In Between Two Fires, Pyne recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America’s founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more pluralistic strategy for fire’s restoration. The revolution succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen short of its goals. Today, the nation’s backcountry and increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It’s America’s story told through the nation’s flames.
Download or read book The East Bay Hills Fire Oakland Berkeley California October 19 22 1991 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Social Aspects and Recreation Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Study of the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire and Its Relevance to Wood frame Multi family Building Construction written by Kenneth D. Steckler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to establish the relevance, if any, of the Oakland hills wildland and suburban fire that occurred on October 20, 1991, to the design of multi-family wood-frame housing in the United States (U.S.) and Japan. A group of fire scientists and experts in building practices from both countries studied the fire through inspections of the site and meetings with local fire and building officials. The high wind speed, proximity of flammable vegetation to structures, and the flammability of exterior construction materials were factors in the spread of the fire. The use of wood framing members in the construction of multi-family housing did not influence significantly the rate of spread or extent of the fire. The severity and duration of the exposure, from fires ignited both outside and inside of buildings, resulted in total destruction of most structures within the fire area, regardless of the type of construction.
