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| General learning outcome: | GENERAL FIRE CONCEPTS: | Specific learning outcome: | The ruggedness of the landscape affects fire behaviour. | Topic: | The ways that fires can evolve over undulating terrain, and the suppression opportunities that result. |
Expert Awareness for Advanced Firefighters & Fire Behaviour Analysts
The spread of an escalated fire may potentially be beyond the skill of most officers without Fire Behaviour Analyst training. Predictions require good data on slope and aspect, fuel type and loading and site weather.
A fire's rate of spread increwases rapidly with slope. However there is no universally accepted means of correcting for slope.
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