Brush fire, bush fire, forest or wild fire - they all refer to the same phenomenon.
Societies that are confronted with potentially destructive forest or wildland fires develop fire management organizations to modify fire's impact on people, the things they value, and the ecosystems about which they are concerned.
In comparison to savanna and forest fires, biofuel fires tend to favour formation of reduced or partially oxidised compounds.
The analogy is with forest fires; if all fires are put out instantly, enough kindling builds up so that an unstoppable conflagration becomes inevitable.
Classical wildfires, also known as a wildland fires or forest fires, are defined as an uncontrolled fire often occurring in wildland areas, but which can also consume houses or agricultural resources.
Indonesians call them "land fires", not forest fires, because it's the land that's burning – in deep pits of peat, three metres down.
The great majority of all forest fires are contained by professional fire fighters equipped with numerous hand tools (spades, beaters, axes, rakes, power saws, and backpack water pumps).
Among the highly efficient condensation nuclei are sea-salt particles and the particles produced by combustion (e.g., natural forest fires and man-made fires).
PAGE A6 Haze From Canada Fires About 45 forest fires in Quebec, fanned from winds out of the north, have spread a milky haze across the Northeast.
