… clear that the systematic investigation of fatal accidents in wildfires, the recording of lessons
… of victims in future wildfires. In this paper, an analysis on fatal wildfire accidents in the 1945–…

… The fires that are analyzed in our study are those that took place in Portugal in 2003 and
2005, northwestern Spain in 2006, and Greece in 2007. Each megafire event is characterized …

… origin, whether caused by accident, negligence or arson, … The fire data used in this study is
the Portuguese Rural Fire … Nevertheless, between 1980 and 2005, most (92.5%) of wildfires …

… study aims to investigate the injuries and fatalities caused by slash-burns in mainland Portugal
… to these incidents and initiate a research line related to the use of fire outside the critical …

… five southern Member States (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, … of Portuguese forest fire ignitions
that occurred in the last three decades, whether by deliberate actions, negligence, accident …

… Considering that mega-fires are a new reality in Portugal, this … small fires to become
mega-fires in days of critical fire danger. … The first finding from this analysis is that very large fires (…

… of wildfire ignitions, we analyzed 127492 fires detected in Portugal during the period 2001-2005
in … (58%) were intentionally caused, while 37% were caused by negligence or accident. …

… The purpose of this paper was to analyze the evolution and … ha of burnt area was also recorded
for the year 2005. … of forest fires are started intentionally or as a result of accidents related …

… , and 2005 with 17 fatalities, 11 of them in the Riba de Saelices’ … wildland fires but they could
not be accounted for in this study … of victims (injuries and fatalities) in wildland fires did not …

… subsets of fire occurrence combining cause (negligence/accident and arson), season (summer-spring
and winter-fall) and size (<1 Ha, 1–100 Ha and >100 Ha). The analysis is carried …