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Ana Daría Ruiz González
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Spain
No 5 (2009), Original articles, pages 15-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/rr.id5300
Submitted: 12-07-2018 Published: 11-09-2018
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In this document basic fire behaviour aspects are described and interconnected. Also several prediction tools for fire management are refered to.
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