Thermal stress in front of a fire when fighting a forest fire: risk assessment

Authors

  • Mário Talaia Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, e ISCIA – Instituto Superior de Ciências da Informação e da Administração, Aveiro
  • Valente Ferreira ISCIA – Instituto Superior de Ciências da Informação e da Administração, Aveiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_17_8

Keywords:

Forest fire, thermal shock, thermal stress, bioclimatic indices, hyperthermia.

Abstract

Temperature is one of the most important parameters to consider when attempting to evaluate the thermal stress of the human being. In this investigation is evaluated the thermal shock which happens, a lot of times, during a forest fire and occurs when the fight is done with a jet of water and one exposure during the combat with sappers means.

Here are used indices of thermal stress, to a thermal environment, to a hot atmosphere due the effect of energy transfer as heat, on behalf of radiation, convection, evaporation, namely, the WBGT, the HSI and the ITE. The results are compared with the physical interpretation from the diagram of two entries WMO.

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Published

2010-08-10

Issue

No. 17 (2010): Risks, Society and Safety

Section

Articles

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