Sentences with phrase «during fire suppression»
When used during fire suppression and over-haul stages, the self - contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) protects the highly susceptible respiratory tract from toxic combustion products in smoke and soot.
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The Suffolk County Legislature approved a resolution to drill fire suppression wells in the Pine Barrens during their session Tuesday.
The NIFC calculates that nearly 39,000 homes — more than 3,000 per year — were lost to wildfires from 2000 - 2012 and that federal, state and local agencies spent an average of $ 4.7 billion annually during that period on WUI fire suppression.
The trees told a story of a surge in human - instigated fires during the 17th and 18th centuries, followed by fire suppression after AD 1800, as economic motivations changed.
The 2 % of fires that escape containment do so during extreme weather conditions — drought, high winds, high temperatures that overwhelm fire suppression forces and that are responsible for 97 % of the burn acres each year — they simply can not and should not be fought under extreme conditions as its not only inappropriate ecologically its not fiscally responsible and risky.