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In this episode, we are joined by Daniel Gorham, a fire engineer and budding ecologist at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety. We are going a little long in this episode because fire resistance and resilience are important topics for residential construction and climate change.
1 Introduction Building-to-building fire spread has consistently been shown to be an important factor in catastrophic large outdoor fire incidents such as wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires [1]. In these incidents, structures may initially be ignited from radiant heat, direct flame contact, and/or embers (also referred to as firebrands) from wildland fire and then cause subsequent fire spread to adjacent buildings [2, 3].
1. Cohen JD (2000) Preventing disaster: home ignitability in the wildland-urban interface. J For 98:15–21. http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2000_cohen_j002.pdf 2. Gorham DJ, Caton S, Hakes R, Gollner MJ (2016) A review of pathways to building fire spread in the wildland urban interface Part II: response of components and systems and mitigation strategies in the United States. Fire Technol. Under Review. 3.
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