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  Time To Burn: Getting A Step Ahead Of Wildland Arsonists

  September 29, 2005 — Just released analyses by USDA Forest Service researchers reveal underlying patterns in wildland arson. Research forester Jeff Prestemon and economist David Butry, both from the FS Southern Research ... > full story
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  Spanish Forest Fire Aftermath Surveyed By Envisat

  August 5, 2005 — The damage done to Spain's Guadalajara province by July's fierce forest fire has been measured from space by Envisat. The four-day blaze began on 16 July, when a barbecue in pine woodland went out of ... > full story
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  New NASA Design Concept Smokes Out False Alarms

  July 21, 2005 — NASA researchers have successfully tested a new generation of fire detectors that could significantly reduce the rate of false alarms in the cargo and baggage compartments of commercial ... > full story
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  Woods Hole Research Center Plans Controlled Burn In Amazon Rainforest

  July 20, 2005 — Fire is an important agent of transformation in the Amazon landscape. Every year, low intensity fires burn thousands of square miles of Amazon forest. To study the effects of these, and the forests' ... > full story
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  NOAA Research Yields New Tools For Lightning Prediction

  July 10, 2005 — Forecasters at the NOAA Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., now have additional tools to more accurately predict the occurrence of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flashes within thunderstorms. ... > full story
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  NOAA Forecasters Predict Critical Fire Weather Conditions In Southwest U.S.

  July 10, 2005 — Weather conditions on Tuesday have the potential to create a significant fire weather situation across parts of southeastern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona, according to ... > full story
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  After 150 Years Of Research, Discovery Of How Flames Burn Is Finally Made By Cornell Scientist Named Cool

  May 16, 2005 — A compound discovered to be ubiquitous in fire has amazingly eluded detection in spite of 150 years of research on how flames burn, according to a recent paper appearing in the journal Science on its ... > full story
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  Billions In Cost Estimated For Firefighter Injuries

  April 11, 2005 — Firefighters face a high chance of injury or death whether on the scene of a fire, on the way to a fire or even during training—with an estimated 81,000 injuries and 100 deaths in 2002 alone. ... > full story
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  Research Indicates No Relief For Drought, Fire Concerns

  March 28, 2005 — It does not appear there will be any major relief this spring or summer from the unusually dry weather that has recently hit the Pacific Northwest, according to new projections of drought severity ... > full story
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  Bacterium Tapped To Battle Fire Blight Disease In Tree Fruit

  March 25, 2005 — Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Wenatchee, Wash., are fighting fire with fire -- sort of. Their fight is against Erwinia amylovora, the bacterium responsible for fire blight, a ... > full story

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