Introduction to Fire Behavior, 1960

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:16:45 A training film for firefighters and initial attack foremen. By means of animation and table-top photography interspersed with actual fire scenes, it show the basic fundamentals for combustion and the influences of fuel, weather, and topography on fire behavior. Emphasizes the many factors that make a fire burn the way it does and demonstrates how strategy can be planned from knowledge of the behavior.