Irakli West lives near Munich, Germany and runs the web site FWnetz, an online magazine and training resource for firefighters. He told us about an interview he conducted with Domingos Viegas who is known world-wide for his work on “eruptive fire behavior” and is a former member of the International Association of Wildland Fire’s Board of Directors. Domingos has given presentations at conferences in the United States on the topic of fire behavior and has his own faculty and lab in Coimbra, Portugal.
The interview below was recorded in Makarska, Croatia in December, 2008 where Domingos gave a presentation about the loss of 12 firefighters in 2007.
