NSW Rural Fire Service Library
New books, reports and articles in the library
May 2023
Fire incidents - Australia
In case of fire : poems from the Blue Mountains, an anthology (Book)
Edited by Michelle Rickerby, 2022
In Case of Fire rose from the ashes of the Black Summer fires, the floods, the pandemic. It features a selection of works from 17 poets based in the Blue Mountains, accompanied by drawings from illustrator Michel Streich. The poems embrace humour and sorrow with equal vigour, remaining open and present to all life’s interactions. In Case Of Fire is not a manual for what to do in times of strife, it is something to reach for to soothe the soul.
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Australia's Megafires : Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020 (eBook and Book)
CSIRO, 2023
These megafires of 2019-2020 affected many of Australia’s most important conservation areas and severely impacted threatened species and ecological communities. They were a consequence of climate change – and offered a glimpse of how this is likely to continue to affect our future. Australia’s Megafires includes contributions by more than 200 researchers and managers with direct involvement in the management and conservation of the biodiversity affected by the Black Summer wildfires. It provides a comprehensive review of the impacts of these fires on all components of biodiversity, and on Indigenous cultural values. Contact the library to request a loan of the book.
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Fire incidents - International
Burnover events identified during the 2018 Camp Fire (Journal article)
International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early 20 April 2023
A post-fire case study of the 2018 Camp Fire identified 23 entrapment and burnover events that threatened the life safety of evacuating civilians and responding emergency personnel. The high number of events within one fire incident suggests this may be a more frequent issue specifically in the context of WUI fires.
Use this CSIRO IJWF link to read the article online.
Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis (Journal article)
International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early 22 May 2023
To aid in the preparation for increasing wildfire risks, the objective of this manuscript is to synthesise and assess the current state of knowledge and inform the broader community of researchers, managers, and the public about the multifaceted and geographically variable nature of the ongoing wildfire challenges in California.
Use this CSIRO IJWF link to read the article online.
Lessons from 2022 (US Podcast)
Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center, May 2023
Kelly Woods and Travis Dotson discuss lessons collected at the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center in 2022. The centrepiece of the conversation is recent analysis of incident reports and learning reviews submitted by the field. Listen in to discover new information, action you can take, and nuances to facilitate learning.
Use this WildfireLessons link to listen to the podcast.
The latest issue of the US Wildland Fire Lessons Center's newsletter, Two More Chains, can be read online here.
Firefighting
Fire dynamics for firefighters : making fire dynamics science accessible to firefighters and practitioners at all levels (Book)
Compartment firefighting series ; volume 1, 2021
Although fire dynamics is a scientific discipline, the authors have kept jargon and mathematics to a minimum wherever possible, with the express intention of this being a very basic introduction to fire dynamics. Think of this book as the first 'stepping stone' onto more detailed and academic publications on this subject. A sound understanding of the fundamentals of fire development forms the essential foundation of safe and efficient fire and rescue operations.
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Reading the fire : simplifying rapid fire behaviour pattern recognition (Book)
Compartment firefighting series ; volume 2, 2022
Making a rapid and accurate incident size up would be one of the most challenging decision making processes faced by any profession. Fireground time frames are measured in seconds, and the review process in minutes. The stakes are high as making correct decisions can mean the difference between life and death. This book focuses on giving firefighters the ability to recognise the key visual patterns of fire behaviour, and to use this knowledge to develop the safest and most efficient manner.
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Fire Behaviour
Fire coalescence and mass spot fire dynamics (Final project report)
BNHCRC - Natural Hazards Research Australia, April 2023
This Project was focused on enhancing our understanding of the physical processes involved in spot fire development and coalescence and developing computationally efficient mathematical models that can accurately account for these the patterns of bushfire propagation associated with mass spotting and other modes of dynamic fire behaviour. The project has presented a new paradigm for understanding fire behaviour and has made the first significant advances towards the next generation of operational models.
Use this BNHCRC link to read the report online.
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire (Journal article)
Fire Ecology, 10 May 2023
Estimating the factors affecting the probability of a wildfire reaching the wildland urban interface (WUI) can help managers make decisions to prevent WUI property loss. This study compiles data on fire progression, wind, landscape characteristics, and fireline built to estimate the probability of an active fire reaching nearby WUI blocks.
Use this Springer Open link to read the article online.
Prescribed burning
United States : Firelighting in America – a calling (Magazine article)
Wildfire Magazine, April 2023
Prescribed fire. These two words can conjure up significant fear and emotion, mainly because some large, uncontrollable wildfires have started from innocuous prescribed burns, but without intentional burning, large mega-fires will persist. However, the article argues, it is time to look at prescribed fire not as an offseason tool for landscape management but as a key (even primary) tool for wildland fire management, suppression in particular. If fire season is year round, perhaps this also means that prescribed fire as a tool is also year round.
Use this IAWF link to read the article online.
Long-term fire retardant to make prescribed burns safer (Magazine article)
Wildfire Magazine, April 2023
In May of this year, USDA Forest Service Chief Randy Moore put a 90-day moratorium on all prescribed burns on lands administered by the forest service, following the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire in New Mexico that started after prescribed burn operations. With this moratorium came a hard internal look at new tools and procedures that could help to make prescribed burns safer and with less risk of escape. One of the not-so-new tools is the use of phosphatebased long-term fire retardants, a technology that has been safely used for decades by forest service and fire professionals, but that is gaining significant attention for expanded use as part of prescribed burn plans.
Use this IAWF link to read the article online.
Bushfire, prescribed burning, and non-human protection (Journal article)
Geographical Research, Vol 61, no. 2, May 2023
Bush and wildfire activity is increasing in frequency across the globe. These fire events are causing catastrophic biological diversity losses. Fire management strategies such as prescribed burning are offered as a solution in efforts to minimise the adverse impacts of fire. However, prescribed burning focuses on human, not non-human populations. A new approach is needed to document or quantify whether prescribed burning policies adequately consider non-human populations and communities.
Use this Wiley Online link to read the article online.
Indigenous Fire Management
A dive into the deep past reveals Indigenous burning helped suppress bushfires 10,000 years ago (News article)
The Conversation, 17 April 2023
Indigenous Australians have conducted cultural burning for at least ten millenia and the practice helped reduce bushfire risk in the past, new research shows. The study provides more evidence of the very long history of cultural burning in southeast Australia. While the burning was probably not specifically used to manage bushfires, our data suggest it nonetheless reduced fire extremes.
Use The Conversation link to read the article online.
‘Painting with fire’: how northern Australia developed one of the world’s best bushfire management programs (News article)
The Conversation, 22 May 2023
From April to June each year, fire managers – such as Traditional Owners, park rangers and pastoralists – aim to create small, “cool” fires with care and precision to reduce fuel loads before conditions get severe later in the dry season. This work, “painting” landscapes with fire, is constantly informed by satellite data. The combination of space technology with Indigenous knowledge and the know-how of pastoralists and park rangers has been everyday practice across northern Australia for the past 20 years. Not only does this work produce some of the best fire management outcomes in the world, it also demonstrates how cutting-edge technology can inform local and traditional knowledge for environmental management.
Use The Conversation link to read the article online.
Australia : Fire stick farming (Magazine article)
Wildfire Magazine, April 2023
An easy to read summary of the benefits involved in re-kindling the indigenous tradition of landscape fire management.
Use this IAWF link to read the article online.
Validating the benefits of increased drone uptake for Australia: geographic, demographic and social insights (Report)
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, April 2023
This report identifies a number of benefits, as well as challenges, facing drone uptake across the country. It also provides an overview of the Australian drone sector, including an international comparison, and assesses the geographic and social drivers behind drone uptake. The report identifies a number of industries could greatly benefit from increased drone use, including in emergency relief and disaster management, security services, freight, agriculture, last-mile deliveries, recreation and entertainment.
Use this Australian Government Drones link to read the report online.
Plain English guide for general operating and flight rules (Guide)
Civil Aviation Safety Authority, 2023
The guide sets out the regulatory requirements in a concise, clear easy to read and practical format for both Part 91 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations and the associated Manual of Standards. It contains all the general operating and flight rules, helpful hints explaining what’s expected of you, things to consider when complying with the rules and an index and other features to help find what you need.
Use this CASA link to read the guide online.
Building Design
Bushfire resistance of external light steel wall systems lined with fibre cement boards (Journal article)
Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 139, August 2023
Improving the safety and integrity of the external building envelope is identified as a solution to minimise the bushfire related building damage and losses. This paper presents the details of bushfire resistance experiments conducted on external Light gauge Steel Framed (LSF) wall systems and the results.
Use this ScienceDirect link to read the article online.
History
How they fought : indigenous tactics and weaponry of Australia's frontier wars (Book)
By Ray Kerkhove, 2023
There are very few books available which explain, in detail, the modes of warfare First Australians applied during the Frontier Wars. How They Fought is written as an introductory guidebook. It is broken into chapters covering organisation, strategies, weaponry, and defences. The book considers both traditional practices and technological and tactical adaptation.
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William Cooper : an Aboriginal life story (Book)
By Bain Attwood, 2023
William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights, and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country, has been widely commemorated and celebrated. By carefully reconstructing the historical losses his people suffered and endured, William Cooper- An Aboriginal Life Story reveals how the first seventy years of Cooper's life inspired the remarkable political work he undertook in the 1930s. This book focuses on Cooper's most important campaigns - his famous petition to King George VI for an Aboriginal representative in the Australian parliament, his call for a day of mourning after 150 years of colonisation, the walk-off of the Yorta Yorta people from Cummeragunja reserve in 1939 and his opposition to the establishment of an Aboriginal regiment in the Second World War.
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Rural Life
Motherland (Book)
By Stephanie Trethewey, 2023
Motherland gives a voice to a nation of country women by sharing their real, raw and unbelievable stories of rural motherhood. Based on the podcast, Motherland brings together the incredible stories of 14 rural mothers who offer powerful and unfiltered insight into the tragedies and triumphs that have shaped their lives on the land, and how through it all, they've thrived through their most precious yet most challenging role of all, motherhood.
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Emergency services and harnessing the power of TikTok (Journal article)
Crisis Response Journal, April 2023
Emergency services staff or social media stars? In today’s world, you can be both writes Amy Leete
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Remote Sensing and GIS
Deep Learning Approaches for Wildland Fires Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data: Detection, Mapping, and Prediction (Journal article)
Fire, Vol 6, no. 5, May 2023
Numerous deep learning models have been developed to detect and map wildland fires, estimate their severity, and predict their spread. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of recent deep learning techniques for detecting, mapping, and predicting wildland fires using satellite remote sensing data. We begin by introducing remote sensing satellite systems and their use in wildfire monitoring. Next, we review the deep learning methods employed for these tasks, including fire detection and mapping, severity estimation, and spread prediction.
Use this MDPI Fire link to read the article online.
An Efficient Wildfire Detection System for AI-Embedded Applications Using Satellite Imagery (Journal article)
Fire, Vol 6, no. 4, April 2023
This work introduces a methodology for designing an efficient machine learning system to detect wildfires using satellite imagery. A convolutional neural network (CNN) model is optimized to reduce the required computational resources. Due to the limitations of images containing fire and seasonal variations, an image augmentation process is used to develop adequate training samples for the change in the forest’s visual features and the seasonal wind direction at the study area during the fire season.
Use this MDPI Fire link to read the article online.
Community Engagement
Using videos in floods and bushfires to educate, signal risk, and promote protective action in the community (Journal article)
Safety Science, August 2023
Videos are commonly used by emergency services agencies in natural hazard emergencies to communicate to the public about the hazard, its possible risks, and to promote protective action. To evaluate the efficacy of the videos being disseminated and amplified during an event, this research examined the extent to which different types of videos trigger risk perceptions, promote protective action, and improve knowledge about the hazard and impact. The findings suggest a video containing a smaller number of facts is most useful at impacting the public’s hazard knowledge, visualisations (real-life or infographics) of facts helps improve knowledge, and videos highlighting the impact an emergency is having (or had) through people’s experiences helped improve hazard knowledge, risk perceptions, and protective action intentions. Finally, while footage of a bushfire triggers threat perceptions and some coping appraisal, the style is not as useful for building hazard knowledge.
Use this ScienceDirect link to read the article online.
Living with wildfire (Magazine article)
MIT Technology Review, Vol 126, May/June 2023
The article shares the story of how Westmont College in California managed the wildfire that hit the school on November 13, 2008. Topics include the school's effort to harden its facilities to survive the flames rather than having their students try to flee from the wildfire, Westmont's legacy of large canyon wildfires over decades and its effort to plan for this kind of disaster, and an account of how the students and staff survived the fire.
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How schools build community resilience capacity and social capital in disaster preparedness, response and recovery (Journal article)
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol. 92, June 2023
This article reports on a decade of research undertaken by the author on the role of schools in disaster response and recovery across four different disaster types in five countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Schools are an integral part of any community. Over the years, they have contributed to the history, identity and social fabric of their communities.The article concludes with recommendations for how this role might be better recognised and supported in local and national government disaster policy and planning.
Use this ScienceDirect link to read the article online.
Taming the wildfire infosphere in Interior Alaska: Tailoring risk and crisis communications to specific audiences (Journal article)
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol. 91, June 2023
Increasingly frequent wildfires are affecting residents in the wildland-urban interface in Interior Alaska. How might fire communicators convey risk and crisis information to meet growing concerns about wildfire impacts among a diverse audience of residents? This research draws on focus group data to map residents' understandings of the infosphere of Interior Alaska throughout the stages of wildfire events. Residents’ different information-seeking habits reflect their particular concerns related to family and work, levels of trust in government and media, and personal networks. Fire communicators can best cater to these audiences by using a tailored approach.
Use this ScienceDirect link to read the article online.
Social drivers of vulnerability to wildfire disasters: A review of the literature (Journal article)
Landscape and Urban Planning, Vol. 237, September 2023
The increase of wildfire disasters globally has highlighted the need to understand and mitigate human vulnerability to wildfire. Here, the authors review the emergent literature on social vulnerability to wildfire by creating factors related to exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity that contribute to a population’s or community’s overall vulnerability to wildfires. We identify how those factors subsequently affect an individual’s or community’s agency to enact change, and highlight that many of the current paradigms for reducing wildfire vulnerability fail to acknowledge and address the importance of inequalities that create differential vulnerability.
Use this ScienceDirect link to read the article online.
Natural Environment
The Earth transformed : an untold history (Book)
By Peter Frankopan, 2023
Historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited and conserved the natural environment - and draws salutary conclusions about what the future may bring. In this revelatory book, Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not newUnderstanding how past shifts in natural patterns have shaped history, and how our own species has shaped terrestrial, marine and atmospheric conditions is not just important but essential at a time of growing awareness of the severity of the climate crisis
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Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires (Journal article)
International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early 26 April 2023
Fires of increasing magnitude will often overwhelm response capacity, and decision-makers need to make choices about what to protect. Conventionally, such choices prioritise human life then infrastructure then biodiversity. Based on shortcomings revealed in the 2019–20 Australian wildfires, we propose a series of linked steps that can be used to identify and prioritise biodiversity assets (including their priority relative to other types of assets), enhance and implement their protection through planning and practice, and strengthen legislation to safeguard them.
Use this CSIRO IJWF link to read the article online.
Loss of soil carbon in a world heritage peatland following a bushfire (Journal article)
International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early 21 April 2023
Climatic events can have rapid and widespread environmental impacts on peatlands. This is concerning because peatlands are restricted environments in Australia and are vulnerable to degradation. This study aimed to investigate the loss of carbon from a burnt and eroded peatland. The cumulative effects of drought, bushfire and erosion events was documented in a peatland in the Kings Tableland region within the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in New South Wales.
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Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire (Journal article)
Fire Ecology, 13 April 2023
Predators and fire shape ecosystems across the globe and these two forces can interact to impact prey populations. This issue is particularly pertinent in Australia where there is considerable scientific and public interest in the post-fire impacts of two invasive predators—the feral cat and red fox.
Use this Springer Open link to read the article online.
Mental Health
What happened to you? : conversations on trauma, resilience and healing (Book)
Oprah Winfrey with Dr. Bruce Perry, 2021
Oprah Winfrey, sharing stories from her own past, and a renowned brain development and trauma expert discuss the impact of trauma and adversity and how healing must begin with a shift to asking, "What happened to you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?"
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All in the mind (Book)
By Lynne Malcolm, 2023
Drawing on research as well as interviews with neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychologists and the people they help, science journalist Lynne Malcolm takes us on a fascinating journey to discover how new knowledge is not only changing the way we understand the brain but is also changing lives. Alongside stories about consciousness and perception, sleep, dreaming and hallucinations; of memory, identity, creativity and the mind-body connection; and of mental illness and recovery, are powerful personal tales of healing and transformation.
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The All in the Mind ABC podcast episodes can be listened online here
Anger Following the Victorian Black Saturday Bushfires: Implications for Postdisaster Service Provision (Journal article)
Australian Social Work, Online April 2023
Anger is a well-recognised but little understood emotion in postdisaster contexts. For service providers working in recovery environments, it is critical to understand anger to ensure effective supports and interventions are mobilised. This article describes findings from a study conducted four years after the 2009 Victorian Black Saturday bushfires. Thirty-eight community and service-provider participants were interviewed as individuals, dyads, or within focus groups about their own and others’ experiences of anger. Postdisaster anger was described as more immediate, intense, and frequent than predisaster, and seen by participants as destructive, productive, and justified.
Use this Taylor and Francis link to read the article online.
No safeguards here? (Journal article)
Crisis Response Journal, April 2023
HatiPlong’s team of clinical psychologists examines the mental health challenges faced by first responders, how they can recognise symptoms, and the long-term effects of untreated issue
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The resilient mindset : adapting and bouncing forward (Journal article)
Crisis Response Journal, April 2023
Robert Hall argues that personal resilience is essential for bouncing back from life’s shocks and stresses, and that it involves a mindset of changing responses to difficulties
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Mental health in young adult emergency services personnel: A rapid review of the evidence (Journal article)
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol. 88, April 2023
This rapid review focussed on the mental health and wellbeing of young adult (16–25 years) emergency service volunteers and personnel. The study aimed to synthesise evidence on the experience of mental health conditions and wellbeing in this cohort. A narrative synthesis yielded two main themes from these studies: 1) rates of disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety, and 2) impact (including cumulative) of exposure. There is a scarcity of research focussed on this age group and on volunteer personnel, highlighting the need for future research focussed on these groups.
Use this Elsevier link to read the article online.
Australians' subjective wellbeing in 2022: Climate change, mental distress, mood and social connection (Report)
Deakin University, Australian Centre on Quality of Life, May 2023
This latest Wellbeing Index Survey Report measures the subjective wellbeing of over 2,000 Australian adults against a series of personal and national life domains. The report found Australia’s subjective wellbeing declined across all measures as the country faces a polycrisis of cost-of-living pressures, climate change and global uncertainty, amidst an ongoing health pandemic. This marks the first time in over a decade that such a consistent downtrend has been observed across all wellbeing measures.
Use this ACQUOL link to read the report online.
Search and Rescue
Vehicle rescue and extrication : principles and practice (eBook)
This revised second edition of the US published textbook helps technical rescue professionals remain safe and capable by delivering the most current practical skills and information available on today's increasingly technical vehicles.
Contact the library to find out how NSW RFS members can access our eBooks.
Rope rescue principles and practice (eBook)
By Loui McCurley, 2023
This fifth edition provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of rope rescue, including planning, PPE and equipment, medical considerations, evacuations, and special rescue operations.
Contact the library to find out how NSW RFS members can access our eBooks.
Leadership and Management
The Leadership Odyssey (Magazine article)
Harvard Business Review, Vol 101, May/June 2023
A paradox of business is that while leaders often employ a hands-on, directive style to rise to the top, once they arrive, they’re supposed to empower and enable their teams. Suddenly, they’re expected to demonstrate “people skills.” And many find it challenging to adapt to that reality. To understand how leaders can successfully make this shift, the authors studied 75 CEO successions, involving 235 candidates. They discovered that the trans- formation is not a single event but unfolds over time and takes many twists and turns.
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How to Design an Internal Talent Marketplace (Magazine article)
Harvard Business Review, Vol 101, May/June 2023
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Helping Women To Close The Influence Gap: Getting your voice heard as a female leader (Magazine article)
Leadership Excellence, Vol 40, March 2023
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Fitness and Health
Can We End Cancer in the Fire Service? (US Podcast)
NFPA, May 2023
Last month, the U.S. federal government launched the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer—the largest project ever undertaken to better understand and reduce the risk of cancer among firefighters. This podcast talk is with the leader of this effort, Dr. Kenny Fent who tells us what the Firefighter Registry is, how it will work, and how it could eventually lead to reforms that help keep future generations of firefighters cancer free.
Use this NFPA link to listen to the podcast.
More information about the US National Firefighter Registry (NFR) for Cancer can be found at this CDC website.
The wilderness first responder : how to recognize, treat, and prevent emergencies in the backcountry (Book)
By Buck Tilton, 2022
This latest edition is a comprehensive US text for the recognition, treatment, and prevention of backcountry emergencies, written by wilderness expert Buck Tilton with more than a dozen medical professionals. Thoroughly updated and revised, this guide represents more than a century and a half of combined experience in wilderness medicine, rescue, and education. It is written for wilderness educators, trip leaders, guides, search and rescue groups, and anyone who works or plays far from definitive medical care
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Professional Safety
The effectiveness of filter material for respiratory protection worn by wildland firefighters (Journal article)
Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 139, August 2023
During a wildland fire event, firefighters often receive significant exposure to smoke consisting of particulate matter (PM) and gaseous emissions. Major respiratory and cardiovascular health concerns are related to inhalation of smoke and respiratory protection (RP), such as masks, are one of the most important pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) that can be used to mitigate this exposure. One barrier to RP implementation is that the effectiveness of different PPE worn by firefighters is not well studied in the literature.
Use this ScienceDirect link to read the article online.
General
Fire, storm & flood : the violence of climate change (Book)
By James Dyke, 2021
Fire, Storm and Flood is an unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present, in which we witness climate chaos forced by unnatural global warming. It uses often emotional and moving imagery to drive home the enormity of climatic events.
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Enough : accept yourself, just the way you are (Book)
By Jana Pittman, 2023
Jana writes just as she speaks: with honesty, conviction and humour, making her path to self-acceptance relatable for all of us. Throughout this book, Jana shares her life with you: the good, the bad and the ugly. Her stories of sport, medicine, divorce, loss, solo parenting, and media shenanigans are told without embellishment or excuses. Jana's life lessons are inspirational, not because of her achievements - stellar though they are - but because of her willingness to share with readers how to stare down your own doubts and fears and believe in yourself and your dreams.
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Chemistry for dummies (Book)
For Dummies series, 2016
Now there's a fun, easy way to learn basic chemistry. Whether you're studying chemistry in school and you're looking for a little help making sense of what's being taught in class, or you're just into learning new things, Chemistry For Dummies gets you rolling with all the basics of matter and energy, atoms and molecules, acids and bases, and much more! Full of modern, relevant examples and updated to mirror current teaching methods and classroom protocols,
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Physics essentials (Book)
For Dummies series, 2019
Free of ramp-up and ancillary material, Physics Essentials For Dummies contains content focused on key topics only. It provides discrete explanations of critical concepts taught in an introductory physics course, from force and motion to momentum and kinetics. This guide is also a perfect reference for parents who need to review critical physics concepts as they help high school students with homework assignments, as well as for adult learners headed back to the classroom who just need a refresher of the core concepts.
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