Assessment of Fire Danger Conditions. Chandler, W. G. & Westmore, N. E. Australian Forestry, 13(1):53–62, January, 1949.
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At the Yallourn and Kiewa undertakings of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, a simple fire danger meter is being used to assist the fire protection staff in their judgment of fire danger conditions in the surrounding forests. On this meter, the fire danger rating is arrived at by adding a burning index, based on weather conditions on the day, to a season index, based on past weather history for the season. The formulae for calculating these indices are empirical, and are based on a study of recorded weather conditions in relation to actual bush fire and controlled burning history, mainly for the Yallourn area, during the summer seasons from 1938 to 1949. This method of fire danger rating fits past experience over this period, it has been used with reliable results over the past two seasons, and it seems to offer a valuable means whereby the forester can check his judgment of the degree of fire danger and the extent to which fire fighting preparedness needs to over-ride normal forestry activities.
@article{chandlerAssessmentFireDanger1949,
  title = {Assessment of Fire Danger Conditions},
  author = {Chandler, W. G. and Westmore, N. E.},
  year = {1949},
  month = jan,
  volume = {13},
  pages = {53--62},
  issn = {0004-9158},
  doi = {10.1080/00049158.1949.10675766},
  abstract = {At the Yallourn and Kiewa undertakings of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, a simple fire danger meter is being used to assist the fire protection staff in their judgment of fire danger conditions in the surrounding forests. On this meter, the fire danger rating is arrived at by adding a burning index, based on weather conditions on the day, to a season index, based on past weather history for the season. The formulae for calculating these indices are empirical, and are based on a study of recorded weather conditions in relation to actual bush fire and controlled burning history, mainly for the Yallourn area, during the summer seasons from 1938 to 1949. This method of fire danger rating fits past experience over this period, it has been used with reliable results over the past two seasons, and it seems to offer a valuable means whereby the forester can check his judgment of the degree of fire danger and the extent to which fire fighting preparedness needs to over-ride normal forestry activities.},
  journal = {Australian Forestry},
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