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In wildfire-prone cities and towns, increasingly worried residents are banding together to prevent future disasters.
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• About - Wildfire
• Why Scientists Are Setting a Giant Wildfire on Purpose - The Atlantic

NASA Made a Rare Flight Right Through a Thundercloud Formed by a Wildfire

Media reports suggest that the town has not adopted all of the most stringent state fire standards. And with destruction on the scale seen in Paradise in , and Santa Rosa in during the Wine Country fires, for both the insurance industry and home and business owners alike, you could be forgiven for questioning the actual difference an individual homeowner, or a community can make in terms of fire mitigation. I think this is an area where the risk modeling and insurance community can support good practice in wildfire risk mitigation.

It cannot be stressed enough that getting the mitigation basics right really matters when it comes to wildfire risk. Mitigation needs to be accommodated in wildfire modeling — and reflected in risk selection and ultimately premiums — to recognize and encourage mitigation efforts.

For RMS, as a leader in the risk modeling community, when building our United States Wildfire HD Model , it was very important to capture the vulnerability of an individual structure and its surroundings in the widest possible sense. Primary modifiers within the model capture typical industry standard attributes — occupancy, construction type, number of stories, year built, floor area etc.

But it is our approach to site hazard data, and secondary modifiers that can reflect the impact of mitigation measures. The model can automatically determine and populate three key site hazard values from a high-resolution data set to fifty meters or less , and also allows for these generated values to be overwritten if these are captured on-the-ground when assessing an individual building. For site hazard, the model captures slope, which is a vital factor to assess the speed and intensity of wildfire, especially if driven by wind.

Fuel class and availability is also essential to consider, and the model will populate the distance to vegetation down to five feet or one and a half meters and the available fuel class — whether it is grass, shrub or timber. Using a big wind tunnel in South Carolina, they subject houses to fire and ember storms showing how the accumulation of embers causes the building to light on fire. The research from IBHS is focused on preventing avoidable losses for wildfire.

The crux of wildfire mitigation is all about removing flammable materials near the structure — i. They have proved that choosing closed eaves instead of open; fiber cement board siding rather than wood shingle, dual-pane tempered screens over single pane windows — all these changes build in higher wildfire resistance. Even the outside deck and the type of mulch used — makes a difference.

About - Wildfire

In recognition of this, the RMS model covers 15 secondary modifiers in all — including the roof characteristics, risk of ember accumulation, wall cladding and deck materials, through to neighborhood infrastructure — such as the presence of sprinklers, suppression, and also site accessibility. The RMS model allows for 17 types of roof covering, either using the material for which the model will infer a typical flammability class, or allowing for a fire rating class to be used. Roof shape, age and condition, roof venting is included.

Neighborhood infrastructure and preparedness is also a factor to consider, such as whether the community has implemented standards from FireWise or other organizations, whether the roads provide easy of access by fire crews etc. Active suppression is growing in importance — the use of insulating, fire blocking gels and retardants — gels that are sprayed onto properties before a fire, or passive suppression, using exterior sprinklers prior to an event, can make a significant difference.

The single continued to sell, eventually receiving platinum certification from the RIAA , signifying sales of over two million US copies. Murphey and Cansler co-wrote "Wildfire" in , shortly after Murphey emerged as a solo artist. When Murphey rerecorded "Wildfire" for a new album in , he was quoted by Billboard as saying that what many consider his signature song "broke my career wide open and, on some level, still keeps it fresh.

Because that song appeals to kids, and always has, it's kept my career fresh. In a interview, Murphey talked about the origins of the song and the context in which it was written. The work was demanding, sometimes taking more than twenty hours a day.

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One night he dreamed the song in its totality, writing it up in a few hours the next morning. He believes the song came to him from a story his grandfather told him when he was a little boy — a prominent Native American legend about a ghost horse. Murphey didn't have a horse named Wildfire until a few years before the interview, when he gave that name to a palomino mare.

The lyrics are the ruminations of a homesteader who has become disillusioned with farming and obsessed with the ghost of a young Nebraska woman said to have died searching for her escaped pony, "Wildfire", during a blizzard. The homesteader hopes to catch up with the ghost mounted on her pony, and with them to escape from farming, which he calls "sodbusting".

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The song is rather famous for its piano intro and outro, which is often left off versions of the song edited for radio. The introduction is based on a piece Prelude in D-flat, Op. In , the host of The Late Show , David Letterman , developed a sudden fascination with "Wildfire", discussing the song and its lyrics—particularly the line about "leave sodbustin' behind"—with the bandleader Paul Shaffer over the course of several weeks.

This ultimately led to Murphey's being invited on the show to perform "Wildfire". Letterman described the song as "haunting and disturbingly mysterious, but always lovely," and surmised that the performance would leave the studio audience with "a palpable sense of In a third-season episode of The Simpsons named " Lisa's Pony ", Lisa played the song for her pony with her saxophone.

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She introduced the song by saying "This next song is also about a girl and her pony. It's called 'Wildfire'. The song has occasionally appeared in "bad song" surveys, such as one by the humor columnist Dave Barry during the s. He quoted one reader who, referring to the song's tale of the loss of a woman and a pony in a "killing frost", pointed out that "'killing' in 'killing frost' refers to your flowers and your garden vegetables, and when one is forecast you should cover your tomatoes