A Review on Higher Education of Fire Safety in China

Article Engineering, Civil

A competency framework for fire safety engineering

David Lange et al.

Summary: This paper discusses the motivation for stronger accreditation of fire safety engineers and proposes a competency framework to meet the current needs of the public.

FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL (2022)

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Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

Jennifer K. Balch et al.

Summary: This study reveals that the intensity of night-time fires has increased due to hotter and drier nights. The global daily minimum vapour pressure deficit (VPD) has increased by 25% from 1979 to 2020. The annual number of flammable night-time hours on burnable lands has increased by 110 hours, allowing for five additional nights of continuous flammability. Across nearly one-fifth of burnable lands, flammable nights have increased by at least one week. Night fires globally have become 7.2% more intense from 2003 to 2020, as measured by satellite records. These findings highlight the lack of relief during the night for wildfire suppression teams. It is expected that continued night-time warming, driven by anthropogenic climate change, will lead to more intense, longer-lasting, and larger fires.

NATURE (2022)

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Article Thermodynamics

Combustion dynamics of large-scale wildfires

Naian Liu et al.

Summary: Large-scale wildfires, although rare, result in significant suppression costs, economic losses, and damages to natural resources. Research attention on these wildfires has increased, focusing on the complex interactions of combustion with heat transfer and atmospheric flow. Strategies to mitigate large-scale wildfires remain a challenging research focus.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE (2021)

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Review Engineering, Industrial