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Proposed new guidelines for safety zones
(NOTE: the information below, a new way to determine the size of a wildland firefighter’s safety zone, was revised again in July, 2014. Read the new guidelines HERE, and do not use the method below.)...
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Revised guidance for safety zones is released
Safety Zone Calculation, released July, 2014. Bret Butler. In his continuing efforts to improve the recommended standards for wildland firefighters’ safety zones, researcher Bret Butler has released a...
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Still another revision of safety zone rule
A safety zone constructed on a wildfire in 2014. Is this like a tactic used in the Vietnam war? “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” (Screen grab from the video below.) In May of this...
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Contribute to the development of better Safety Zone guidelines
A safety zone constructed on a wildfire in 2014. (Screen grab from a video about safety zones.) Phil Dennison of the University of Utah and Bret Butler at the Missoula Fire Lab are working on ways to...
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