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Long-range planning of forest fire initial attack systems requires a method for evaluation of force effectiveness against an assumed pattern of fire occurrence on the planning unit.
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Note: The author is an Operations Research Analyst at the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, stationed at Riverside, California.
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Bratten, F.W. Containment tables for initial attack on forest fires. Fire Technol 14, 297–303 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01998389
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01998389