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Published online 13 August 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010816-5
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Fire's spread looks fractal
Fight forest fire's fringes first, suggests new model.
Fire-fighting should focus on the most recently ignited sites, suggests a new mathematical model. One wall of flame may look like another to a fire-fighter on the ground, but the boundaries where a forest fire is growing fastest are more dangerous than the rest1.
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