Working Groups
Human Behaviour in Fires
Human Behaviour in Fires
The Human Behaviour in Fires (HBiF) Working Group seeks to engage in advancing research and application in practice of all aspects of the broad discipline of human behaviour in fire.
LOF&BE
LOF&BE
The ‘Large Outdoor Fires & the Built Environment’ working group addresses problems with key phenomenological shared characteristics relevant to urban fires, and wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires, wildland fires as well as informal settlement fires.
The working group consists of three subgroups focused on the topics of: Ignition Resistant Communities (IRC), Emergency Management and Evacuation (EME), and Large Outdoor Firefighting (LOFF) It is also expected that three subgroup will be collaborating at a later stage.
MaCFP
MaCFP
The general objective of the “IAFSS Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena Working Group” (abbreviated as the “MaCFP Working Group”) is to establish a structured effort in the fire research community to make significant and systematic progress in fire modeling, based on a fundamental understanding of fire phenomena.