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Firestorms

Firestorms. Other Names. Bushfires Wildfires Fire Whirls . Ways Firestorms are Created. Wildfires Fire bombing Earthquakes Arson . Wind System. Firestorm is a conflagration which has such intensity that it actually creates and sustains its own wind system.

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Firestorms

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  1. Firestorms

  2. Other Names • Bushfires • Wildfires • Fire Whirls

  3. Ways Firestorms are Created • Wildfires • Fire bombing • Earthquakes • Arson

  4. Wind System • Firestorm is a conflagration which has such intensity that it actually creates and sustains its own wind system. • Firestorms are created using the stack effect, which creates such a strong updraft that it actually pulls adjacent air in which creates fierce winds that blow towards the center.

  5. Where • Firestorms have occurred both in natural conditions such as the Great Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin or the Ash Wednesday fires in southeast Australia • Also artificial conditions, such as in the aerial bombings of Hamburg, Dresden, and Tokyo or the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  6. 1923 Great Kantō earthquake • Earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 • Ignited a city sized firestorm which produced a huge fire whirl which killed 38000 people in only 15 minutes

  7. Fire Tornado • Or fire whirls is a phenomenon that forms under specific conditions(air temperature and currents) acquires a vertical vortex which forms a tornado • Either the vortex itself is on fire or the area around the vortex is on fire.

  8. Fire Tornado • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsyvOYcWgcg • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2KaJkacR80 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJVertGZJUM

  9. Test Questions 1 • What is another name for a firestorm • Wildfires • Greek fire • Spreading fire • Raining fire

  10. Test Question 2 • 2.How are Firestorms created • Wildfires • Firebombing • Earthquakes • All of the above

  11. Test question 3 • 3.Fire storms create and sustain their own wind system • True • False

  12. Test Question 4 • What is the name of the system in a firestorm that creates and sustains its own wind? • Dorthy Effect • Stack Effect • Doppler Effect • Wind Effect

  13. Test Question 5 • Fire Tornados are very common? • True • False

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