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Today, wildfires are bigger, burning longer, causing more damage, and impacting public health more than ever before due to prolonged smoke exposure. Wildfires can quickly turn into a disaster when they enter the wildland urban interface (WUI), where structures and other human development meet or intermix with undeveloped wildland or vegetation fuel. This course provides an overview of how wildfires are changing and the role of the WUI, with a particular focus on how fuel in the WUI differs from wildland fuels, the impacts of WUI emissions on human health, and mitigation opportunities to safeguard WUI communities.
Objectives
- Describe how wildfires are changing and the role of the wildland urban interface (or WUI).
- Recognize the types of fuels found in WUI communities and describe how they are different from fuels found in wildland areas.
- Describe the types of pollutants from WUI fires typically found in traditional wildland fires and their health effects.
- List the available mitigation opportunities for buildings in WUI communities.
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This course is also available through USGBC’s online course catalog. Take the course there to have your GBCI CE hours reported automatically on your behalf. Course completions on CIRI’s eLearning Center can be self-reported for CE hours.”