"Then, when you look at the last century, you see the climate getting warmer and drier, but until the last couple decades the amount of fire was really low.
"You may send somebody on the roof, but tell them to stay in radio contact with the incident commander -- let him and the people operating in the interior know about the amount of fire and where it is located".
The Renouncers' specialist penance involves sitting inside rings of smouldering cow dung in the blazing summer heat, for two to three hours a day, every day, for four months of every year, for 18 years, all gradually increasing the amount of fire, until you finally graduate to wearing a jar containing burning cow dung on your head all day.
We calculated the amount of fire events and burnt area within the 3-km circle.
Our analysis of satellite data over 2006 2016 confirms that the amount of fire events and burnt area are decreasing over the last decade.
A higher threshold reduces the amount of fired pixels which results in smaller and fewer clusters found on average on a plane and thus limiting the number of reconstructible tracks.
Our data support reducing the amount of fire in the landscape to preserve the integrity of the natural vegetation of this and other piñon-juniper woodlands, especially under projections of warmer and drier future climates.
In late July, the pilots charged with scouting for enemy forces on Kiska reported a sharp decline in the amount of fire received by their planes from Japanese forces on the ground.
But many private buildings have made the choice to go smoke-free because they understand that doing so will protect the health of residents, provide economic benefit, reduce the amount of apartment fires, and because smoking is still the No. 1 cause of preventable death.
Empirical studies from 1 to 15 years after fires demonstrate most burned sites occupied by pairs remained occupied and reproductive at the same rates as long-unburned sites, regardless of the amount of severe fire; lower-quality sites (often vacant or nonreproductive) had higher extinction rates with more severe fire.
