Wildfire impacts on schools and hospitals following the 2018 California Camp Fire

Wildfire impacts on communities have become more pronounced in recent years as the intensity and frequency of wildfires have increased in densely populated areas of the USA. Communities located in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) neighboring high wildfire risk zones are at highest risk of damage t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Natural hazards (Dordrecht) Jg. 104; H. 1; S. 901 - 925
Hauptverfasser: Schulze, Stefanie S., Fischer, Erica C., Hamideh, Sara, Mahmoud, Hussam
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.10.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Schlagworte:
Building damage
Civil Engineering
Data collection
Disaster management
Drone aircraft
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Electric utilities
Emergency preparedness
Environmental Management
Environmental risk
Fire damage
Fires
Geophysics/Geodesy
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Health care
Health care facilities
Health facilities
Hospitals
Hydrogeology
Impact damage
Infrastructure
Lidar
Mitigation
Natural Hazards
Original Paper
Population density
Recovery plans
Schools
Service restoration
Structural damage
Wildfires
Wildland-urban interface
United States > US
California
Reconnaissance
Wildfire
Wildland–urban interface
Interdisciplinary data
Community resilience
ISSN:0921-030X, 1573-0840
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Zusammenfassung:Wildfire impacts on communities have become more pronounced in recent years as the intensity and frequency of wildfires have increased in densely populated areas of the USA. Communities located in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) neighboring high wildfire risk zones are at highest risk of damage to civil infrastructure. This paper summarizes an investigation on the 2018 Camp Fire impacts to schools and healthcare facilities in Paradise, CA. The paper demonstrates that interdisciplinary data collection methods can provide a comprehensive overview of school and hospital damage after a wildfire. Photographs, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) scans of damaged buildings, drone aerial images, and interviews with key school and healthcare stakeholders provided valuable information on the structural and nonstructural damages to infrastructure. Interviews also provided context to the impacts of infrastructure damage on the ability of education and healthcare facilities to operate or reopen following the fire. Nonstructural damage to schools and hospitals, such as damage to electrical systems or other utilities, significantly impacted the functionality of these facilities. Understanding the vulnerabilities of WUI communities to wildfire will help with disaster mitigation and recovery planning and aid in restoring critical services after the disaster.
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ISSN:0921-030X
1573-0840
DOI:10.1007/s11069-020-04197-0