Essays on Wildfire

Colorado Springs:

Colorado Springs located in central east of the United States. It is basically situated in the fountain creek some 97 km away from the Colorado State Capital in Denver. Colorado Springs is blessed with much natural beauty. The mountainous region provides a scenic beauty and a place for tourism. Colorado basically is situated around the base of Pikes Peaks. This city is also the centre of around 24 national sports governing bodies. It was entitled as the best place to live in the USA by the U.S. News and World Report ("100 Best Places to Live in the USA | ...

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The fire is considered a (singular) wildfire (rather than a collection of wildfires). It has been attributed to warmer-than-average atmospheric conditions, with temperatures rising more than 40o F above normal for this time of year. Strong winds have helped fan the flames and encourage the rapid spread of the fire in all directions from its starting point (Kahn, 2016).

What

On May 1, 2016, a fire started 15 km east of Fort McMurray, prompting local officials to declare a state of emergency, and initiating a mandatory evacuation of the neighborhoods of Prairie Creek, Gregoire, and the Centennial Trailer Park. More ...

Hazard Mitigation Response

Introduction Background The world’s history is full of natural disasters that caused the losses of both the life and property. The disasters can categorized in numerous categories such as droughts, earthquakes, heat waves, floods, hurricanes, landslides, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfires, winter storm etc. . The United States alone suffered from the ten natural disasters in 2015 including a drought, wildfire, winter storm, floods, and five severe storms. The estimated financial loss of each disaster is almost $1 billion with the total death toll of 155 . The mentioned losses do not include the damage caused by manmade disasters like ...

American experience: The big burn is a movie that tells a story about a huge wildfire that raged through the Northern Rockies during the year 1910. The wildfire consumed large chunks of land spanning over three million acres. In the year 1905, some fresh graduates from Yale Forestry School were posted to the West frontier towns under Gifford Pinchot, who was the founder of the forest and was serving as the chief of the U.S. Forest Service. The employees were faced with the huge task of taking care of the large forests in the Northern Rockies. One of the ...

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ASU Introduction In the modern times, natural catastrophes have been one of the major reasons for the destruction of the global environment. Although humanity is experiencing advancements in some of the aspects or fields in the society such as technology, health care and economics, environmental problems are still common due to natural catastrophes. Massive typhoons, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions created large amounts of damage to our ecosystem. In addition, the world experienced hundreds, or even thousands or natural catastrophes in only a span of several years. Ecosystem fires or forest wildfires are one of the natural catastrophes which ...

Fritch, Texas was the scene of a wildfire that devastated the small town on May 11, 2014. Prairie fires are not uncommon in the Texas landscape, but they have become more of a threat in recent years secondary to growing populations, the ways in which land is now used, and an ongoing drought in the state. In the nine-year span between 1995 and 2014, more than 157,000 wildfires were reported in Texas with almost 80 percent raging within two miles of residential communities (Warren). The population of Fritch was just over 2000 people. Unlike other small Texas towns ...

This study frames Melman’s leadership style/behavior within five dimensions, such as Vision, Organization, Communication, Trust, and Creativity, where those dimensions evolved with time and create an impression that his leadership journey began with Participative leadership style, before embracing Servant leadership style. Accordingly the study reviews Melman’s actions and words, before substantiating its position.

Vision

Melman opened Eccentric in 1989, partnering with Oprah Winfrey, but soon he found that business is not catching up as per his expectations due to the fact that they were “trying to do too much with “steaks, fish, American, French, Southern.” Accordingly he launched ...

The 21st century era is also a mark of technological and advanced researches and experiments that benefit the nation’s population. Millions of people were overwhelmed of the significance that these technologies portrays on everyone’s lives. However, despite the success of our innovations and advancements with regards to the scientific aspect, our environment has been greatly affected. Up to date, the heightened climate change and global warming has really caused massive destruction of our environment on various parts of the world. One of these detrimental effects of global warming is massive forest wildfire on different locations, particularly on ...

Introduction

The 21st century generation has been plagued with various natural catastrophes that have provided significant negative impacts on the present status of the world’s environment. Much of the delight of the current technological advancements that people are experiencing, the world’s natural ecosystem has been left out of concern. In only a span of several years, hundreds, or even thousands of natural calamities have been recorded in different parts of the world. There are massive typhoons, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, etc. that had created massive amount of damage in our ecosystem. These natural scenarios are very alarming since ...