Annual Report: Civil Defense Test Design and Support of Operation Flambeau-Type Fires   [open pdf - 543KB]

"This report describes annual progress in a continuing program to review and appraise potential opportunities for mass-fire tests and other sources of field-test data relevant to the civil defense fire problem and to provide objective and technically sound advice in such matters as required by the Support Systems Division of OCD [Office of Civil Defense], Research. Progress for the year is summarized in the following subject-area categories: 1. Review of reports on Flambeau-type fires 2. Investigation of new sources of data 3. Conduct of Annual OCD Fire Research Contractors Conference 4. Participation in the writing of a Handbook on Forest Thermal Effects."