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Wildfires

The Physics of Extreme Wildfire and how to understand it:

Check out this article, here, on the physics of wildfires, as well as the videos below.

Fundamental Physics of Wildfires

Prof Forman is  a leader in combustion and fire science. He was the PhD advisor of both faculty (Prof Gollner and Prof Fernandez-Pello) studying the fundamentals of fire science here at UC Berkeley. A couple of years ago he gave a lecture on wildfires at IIT Madras.

How to put out a wildfire

Only the brave

Wildland:

Fire in Paradise:

Extreme Wildfires:

Wildfires on the West Coast:

Think something is missing? Please E-mail me with your suggestions at franz.richter@berkeley.edu.

Page created by Dr Franz Richter, UC Berkeley.