Webinar: Experimentally Simulating Wind-Driven Firebrand Showers in WUI Fires

A public webinar discussing Experimentally Simulating Wind-Driven Firebrand Showers in WUI Fires will be presented by Dr. Sam Manzello of the Fire Research Division of the National Institutes & Technology (NIST) on Thursday, December 5 at 11 AM.

This webinar, sponsored by the California Fire Science Consortium, discusses wind-driven firebrand showers, which are a major cause of structural ignition in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. To address this problem, a new firebrand research area targeted on quantifying structure vulnerabilities to wind-driven firebrand showers has been developed. This type of firebrand research has never possible prior to the development of the NIST Firebrand Generator, also referred to as the NIST Dragon. Due the complexity of the WUI fire problem, great strides must be made to recruit the next generation of researchers to fire safety science from diverse backgrounds. This presentation closes with a discussion of ongoing workshop activities intended to achieve this, as well as some challenges for future WUI research.

Registration: Free online registration at http://www.cafiresci.org/2013-webinars/ . Sign up soon as space is limited.