On March 9th and 31st, 2021, CSR conducted two presentations on “Modeling the dynamics of fuel loads and the probability of fire spread in the Brazilian Cerrado” to the Military Firefighters Corps of Minas Gerais.
Imparted by rDr. Ubirajara Oliveira, the lectures took place on the Web, bringing together more than 100 firefighters from the State. The talk introduced the Fire Spread Model for the Brazilian Cerrado – developed under the project FIP – Cerrado Monitoring – ,its features and potentialities, as well as how the computer tool was developed.
Colonel Sérgio José Ferreira, commander of the 1st Military Firefighters Operational Command, thanked our researchers for the event and stressed the importance of prior knowledge of fire behavior “for the safety and effectiveness of firefighting operations”.
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