Firestorm | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 21/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestorm


00:00:57 1 Mechanism
00:03:44 2 Characterization of a firestorm
00:06:45 2.1 Weather and climate effects
00:08:25 2.1.1 Pyro-cumulonimbus and atmospheric effects (in wildfires)
00:10:50 2.2 Black Saturday firestorm (Wildfire case study)
00:11:01 2.2.1 Background
00:11:57 2.2.2 Role that pyroCb's have on fire in case study
00:13:36 2.2.3 Importance for continued study of these firestorms
00:16:08 3 City firestorms
00:17:39 3.1 Firebombing
00:21:18 3.2 21st century cities in comparison to World War II cities
00:23:24 4 Nuclear weapons in comparison to conventional weapons
00:33:17 5 See also
00:33:40 5.1 Potential firestorms



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A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires and wildfires. Although the term has been used to describe certain large fires, the phenomenon's determining characteristic is a fire with its own storm-force winds from every point of the compass. The Black Saturday bushfires and the Great Peshtigo Fire are possible examples of forest fires with some portion of combustion due to a firestorm, as is the Great Hinckley Fire. Firestorms have also occurred in cities, usually as a deliberate effect of targeted explosives, such as occurred as a result of the aerial firebombings of Hamburg, Dresden, firebombing of Tokyo and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.