2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2008.01.001
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Establishing safety distances for wildland fires

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“…These values are generally higher than the values predicted for safety zones using the physically based models. However, at flame heights exceeding 10 m, for all combinations of fire shelter use and probability level, the required SDFH ratios decrease and eventually become lower than Butler and Cohen's (1998a) model but similar to the models proposed by Zárate et al (2008) and Rossi et al (2011), generally ranging from 1 to 4 times the flame height.…”
Section: Fatal Injury Model (Survival Zone Separation Distance)supporting
confidence: 62%
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“…These values are generally higher than the values predicted for safety zones using the physically based models. However, at flame heights exceeding 10 m, for all combinations of fire shelter use and probability level, the required SDFH ratios decrease and eventually become lower than Butler and Cohen's (1998a) model but similar to the models proposed by Zárate et al (2008) and Rossi et al (2011), generally ranging from 1 to 4 times the flame height.…”
Section: Fatal Injury Model (Survival Zone Separation Distance)supporting
confidence: 62%
“…Several factors could be causing this difference, which include addressing a known underprediction bias in the physical models, determination of the actual probability level that is acceptable for non-fatal injuries and model quality. Underprediction of separation distance in the current set of physically based models is likely related to the failure to include the effects of convective heat transfer on safety zone size (Zárate et al 2008;Butler 2014aButler , 2014b) and the use of burns to bare skin as the only mechanism of injury. A safety zone should be an area of sufficient size to ensure that firefighters remain uninjured from all possible injury mechanisms including excessive inhalation of smoke or hot combustion gases (National Wildfire Coordinating Group 1996).…”
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