Background
Background on wildfires and the global context
Key term | Definition |
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Fireline | “The portion of the fire upon which resources are deployed and are actively engaged in the incident. In a general sense, the working area around a fire” [1] |
Fire season | “The period(s) of the year where fires are likely to start, spread, and damage values-at-risk sufficient to warrant organized fire suppression; a period of the year set out and commonly referred to in fire prevention legislation” [1] |
Type 1 fire crew | “The primary response force consisting of 3 to 21 persons and meet all requirements of the Interagency Exchange Standards” [1] |
Type 2 fire crew | “Crews intended for utilization on low to moderate complexity sustained action operations and meet all requirements of the Interagency Exchange Standards” [1] |
Type 3 fire crew | “Generally made up of temporary firefighter forces used for mop-up situations that have received some type of basic agency firefighting training” [1] |
Wildfire | “An unplanned fire – including unauthorized human-caused fires – occurring on forest or range lands, burning forest vegetation, grass, brush, scrub, peat lands, or a prescribed fire set under regulation which spreads beyond the area authorized for burning” [1] |
Wildland | “An area in which development is essentially non-existent, except for roads, railroads, power lines, and similar transportation facilities. Structures, if any, are widely scattered” [1] |
British Columbia (BC) wildfire context
Existing knowledge on health impacts
Purpose and objectives
Methods
Project team
Phase 1: Literature review
Identifying the research question and developing the protocol
Population
Concept
Context
Study design
Outcomes
Language
Timing
Identifying the literature
Concept | Text words |
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Wildfire | fire, wildfire, wild fire, forest fire, brush fire, brushfire, wildland fire, bushfire, grassfire, prescribed burn, prescribed fire, smoke pollution, smoke, wood, simulated |
Personnel and crew configurations | Firefighter, project firefighter, wildland firefighter, wildfire firefighter, wildfire fighter, forest firefighter, fire ranger, unit crew, handcrew, hotshots, project crew, initial attack, heliattack, helitack, rapattack, rappel crew, parattack, smokejumpers, engine crew, air crew, aerial firefighters, fire base, contract crews, military, forest industry, occupation, suppression |
Health outcomes | Health, exposure, casualty, death, disease, illness, morbidity, mortality, effect, adverse effect, impact, health problem, health hazard, mental health, sleep, fatigue, stress, shift work |
Intervention or mitigation | Mitigation, intervention, prevention, policy, guidelines |