ENVIRONMENTAL
PANORAMA
ENVIRONMENTAL
PANORAMA
PEAT FIRE PROCESS
Peat fire is considered as Ground fire which occurs below the materials such as leaves and peats. This fire is slow-moving, but if it is left unattended, it can take out large areas. This type of fires is dangerous because it can hole up below the surface and reemerge once the weather gets warm. it is also the type of fires which causes the most destruction to us the forest since they destroy the roots of trees. Therefore, even though, there is no fire, the trees are going to die later.
It is rare, but when it happens, it can last long and spread onto larger territories. It is also the most challenging fire to be extinguished.
Commonly, ground fire first occurs on the surface, and later on, it goes deeper into the underground. It is challenging to detect this type of fire without special equipment such as a heat detector. Sometimes the fire have already burnt for years before it is found, so the burning just kept spreading and creating larger territories.
The fire can also spread on the surface , but parts of the flames will extend deep into the soil or peat at least a few feet. Even though, there is no fire on the surface, it does not mean that the fire is completely gone.
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SMOULDERING AND
FLAMING
Peat fire is also considered to be a smouldering wildfires with peat as a fuel. When compared to flaming, smouldering is slower, lower-temperature, flameless, and the most persistence type of combustion since it is more difficult to suppress.
The spread of smouldering combustion is a multi-demensional process; horizontal, and vertical. Most smouldering wildfires begin on the ground surface by many factors. However, after the iginition on the surface, the fire can spread along the free urface, and vertically downward into peat layers.
In some cases, smouldering can also spread upward if the ignition is below the surface. For example, when the surface fire is extinguished; while, the deep fire is still burning, the hidden fire can spread upward during the drought season. It is also can self-ignite, and it affects the fire suppression strategy.
Smouldering is much more hazardous to the nature than flaming since it occurs both above and below ground. It is difficult to detect due to its low-temperature, flameless, and when it is detected, it is also well-known for the difficulty to be extinguished without requiring a large amount of water.
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