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An Analysis of Dodge's Escape Fire on the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire in ...

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Butler and Cohen (1998):<br />

“Ro<strong>the</strong>rmel (1993)<br />

<strong>in</strong>dicates that <strong>the</strong><br />

escape fire burned<br />

around 90 m [~295 ft]<br />

... Assum<strong>in</strong>g an<br />

elliptical shape ...<br />

with its width<br />

approximately half<br />

<strong>the</strong> length ... <strong>the</strong><br />

escape fire would<br />

have been about 45<br />

m wide [~148 ft].”<br />

This equates to an<br />

area <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> about 0.8<br />

acre.

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