Quantifying wildland fire resources deployed during the compound threat of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Fire agencies across the United States must make complex resource allocation decisions to manage wildfires using a national network of shared firefighting resources. Firefighters play a critical role in suppressing fires and protecting vulnerable communities. However, they are exposed to health and safety risks associated with fire, smoke inhalation, and infectious disease transmission. The COVID-19 pandemic further complicated these risks, prompting fire agencies to propose resource management adaptations to minimize COVID-19 exposure and transmission. It is unclear if and how the pandemic may have operationally influenced wildland firefighting personnel resource use given compounding wildfire and COVID-19 risks. Therefore, we developed generalized linear mixed models that were fit using

SUBMITTER: Wells EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11358158 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature