Forest Fire Risks to Cultural Heritage: a STORM Project Presentation
When evaluating the fire risks to cultural resources, the focus is typically on buildings and artifacts, with forest or vegetation...
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Water Mist and Cultural Heritage fire protection
Watercolor images are among the most vulnerable artefacts to the effects of firefighting water systems. Watercolor images are among the...
Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources and Archaeology according the USDA
USDA - Forest Service - Wildland Fire in Ecosystems Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources and Archaeology. Fires can lead to the...
Fire Risks and New Threats from Climate Change to Libraries and Archives
Key observed and projected climate change and impacts for the main regions in Europe from: Climate change, impacts and vulnerability...
UAVs to Save Cultural Heritage in Emergency Scenarios
Understanding the situation is a crucial objective for emergency services when designing systems and procedures for use during or after...
The ABC Method to Approach Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Emergencies
Risks to cultural heritage vary from catastrophic events (such as earthquakes, floods, etc) to gradual processes (such as chemical, physical,...
LiDAR and Cultural Heritage in Emergency Operations
The project STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) has been funded by the Horizon 2020 EU...
Disasters And Historic Buildings: the Need of Common Data Protocol
On April 6, 2009, the Historic city of L'Aquila, experienced a devastating earthquake, resulting in 309 fatalities, over 1,600 injuries,...
Damages to Cultural Heritage Caused by 24th August 2016 Central Italy Earthquake
On August 24th, 2016 a severe earthquake has hit an area in Central Italy approximately among the city of Amatrice and...
Saving Heritage at Risk – Remembering the 1966 Florence Flooding
On November 4th 1966 a flash flood caused in central Italy 47 deaths, hundreds of injured and 46,000 displaced people and...
19th Century Manhattan Church Destroyed by fire in New York (USA)
The New York Serbian Orthodox Cathedral od St. Sava on West 25th Street on May 1st has been destroyed by...
Fire in Italian historical town damages several buildings
A moment of the fire (picture from: http://www.laprovinciadivarese.it/stories/verbano-e-valli/mostruoso-incendio-a-luino-20-sfollati_1164847_11/) A fire broke out in the historic center of Luino (Italy). For...
STORM: an Horizon 2020 research project on heritage and environmental changes
STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) is a research and development project initiated by the European...
Fire in Moscow Library Destroy 1 mln Books
Fire at the Moscow Academic Institute of Scientific Information On January 31st, 2015, one of Russia's largest academic libraries, which...
Extensive Fire Damages Clandon Park House in Surrey
On April 29th, 2015, a devastating fire engulfed the renowned 18th-century Palladian masterpiece, Clandon Park House near Guildford in Surrey....
120 Firefighters to Extinguish a Museum Fire in Paris
In the early hours of August 20, 2015, a devastating fire engulfed the Cité de la Science et de l'Industrie...
Fire and Flood in the Built Environment: a COTAC Report
Cover of COTAC report COTAC is the Council on Training in Architectural Conservation. On 20 November 2014 the COTAC’s Annual...
A Historic District Protection Planning Good Practice
During the Venice 2012 meeting in Venice on Fire safety of historic buildings, Danny Mc Daniel (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) has...
Krasna Horka Castle (Slovak Republic) severely damaged by grass fire
The Slovak Castle of Krasna Horka, severely damaged by fire on March 10, 2012, started by incautious burning of dry...
Historic Underground Premises: how with Fire Safety of Visitors?
In the International Conference on Safety Issues of Rescue Operations in Underground Structures, held in Rome (Italy) on March 3rd,...
Cultural Heritage and Forest Fires Hazards
picture taken from Kosmas Dimitropoulos , Kovanc Köse, Nikos Grammalidis, and Enis Cetin paper Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is the...
Egyptian Museum and the Threat of Riots Fires in Cairo (Egypt)
The potential collapse of a neighboring building caused by fire due to the riots has threatened the priceless artifacts kept...
