Stay updated with breaking news from Alex maranghides. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
NIST Issues New Guidance for Emergency Response During Wildfires yubanet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yubanet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How far away do sheds need to be located to significantly limit fire spread to homes? New research led by NIST has begun to provide important answers. ....
Published February 24, 2021 at 10:24 AM PST Listen • 22:26 Flames from the Camp fire burn near a home atop a ridge near Big Bend, California. We saw it in the Almeda Drive fire, and we saw it earlier in the Camp fire that destroyed much of Chico: a sense of all hell breaking loose, overwhelming the senses. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) put considerable work into what happened in the Camp fire. They assembled a finely-detailed timeline of what happened in the Chico area, to better understand the sequence of events. The research is meant to help in responses to future wildfires; we know they re coming. NIST researcher and fire protection engineer Alex Maranghides lays out the research. ....