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• Making your home firewise

  Discusses ways in which homeowners, especially those of woodland homes, can prevent damage and destruction from wildfires. The three basic steps: 1. Choose a firewise location; 2. Design and build a firewise structure (choice of roofing materials, walls, windows, vents; additional structures; landscaping); and 3. Practice firewise landscaping and maintenance.

• Firewise landscaping

  Part I describes the hazards of the wildland/urban interface when wildfires occur. Covers the causes and characteristics of wildfires with a discussion of basic landscape design principles. Part II looks at the design and installation of firewise landscapes in wildland/urban interface areas. Part III deals with maintaining landscaped properties to minimize danger from wild fires.

• Wildfire! preventing home ignitions

  DeLancey, John.

  This program tells how a wildfire can ignite homes. The ignition zone is the home itself and its immediate surroundings. Includes ways to increase this zone’s resistance to fire.

• Home improvement a firewise approach

  Blake, Cheryl.

• Firefighter safety series instructor support materials : computer-slide presentations/videos

  Blake, Cheryl.

• Before the smoke! : Preparing your community for wildfire

  DeLancey, John.

• Be rabbit ready have 2 ways out!

  Handler, Eric.

• Firefighter safety series instructor support materials : computer-slide presentations/videos

  Addresses problems faced by wildland and structural firefighters when fighting fires, especially those in the wildland/urban interface, as well as firefighter safety and survival issues.

• Report of fire tests in small closed rooms with automatic bulb-type carbon tetrachloride (vaporizing liquid) fire extinguishers

• The visual display of quantitative information

  Tufte, Edward R., 1942-

  This book deals with the theory and practice in the design of data graphics and makes the point that the most effective way to describe, explore, and summarize a set of numbers is to look at pictures of those numbers, through the use of statistical graphics, charts, and tables. It includes 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Also offered is information on the design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples, editing and improving graphics, and the data-ink ratio. Time-series, relational graphics, data maps, multivariate designs, as well as detection of graphical deception: design variation vs. data variation, and sources of deception are discussed. Information on aesthetics and data graphical displays is included. The 2nd edition provides high-resolution color reproductions of the many graphics of William Playfair (1750-1800), adds color to other images where appropriate, and includes all the changes and corrections during the 17 printings of the 1st edition.