The complex structure of the urban traffic link tunnel (UTLT) exacerbates fire accident risk and increases the difficulty of smoke control, especially for a UTLT with looped tunnel systems.
The possum's woes have been exacerbated by fire, with the report showing that of the 195,000ha of potential habitat for the possum, 35% was burnt during the 2009 bush fires, with nearly half of the most valuable habitat being ravaged by the flames.
Bans on thinning and salvage harvesting have not only exacerbated the fire danger in public forests but it has also left them more susceptible to disease, insects and high winds.
Bark beetles likely exacerbated the fire that ravaged Lake County over the weekend, and the drought is the ultimate reason.
Global warming is almost surely contributing to drought and heat in ways that exacerbate fire risk, but the prime driver of losses in these recent fires is a heavily subsidized burst of development in zones of implicit fire danger.
Floods can be exacerbated by fires during the previous dry season, which cause soils which are sandy or composed of loam to become hydrophobic, or repellent of water.
While wildfires are common during the state's typically dry, hot summers, the historic drought plaguing the West coast has exacerbated the fires and made it more difficult for emergency workers to contain them.
Problems with couplings on the fire hoses exacerbated the situation – the fire hydrants had been regularly painted, and a build up of paint on the coupling threads prevented the hoses from being attached to the hydrants.
Human-caused climate change is radically altering the sky islands of the southwestern USA and northern Mexico by exacerbating droughts, fire and outbreaks of invasive insects [ 39].
The president initially blamed state officials for poor forest management in exacerbating the fires and threatened to cut off federal funding.
