Description by Publisher
With Firestorm you can use four ground crews and two air tankers to
fight wildland fires on a map of 180,000 acres, containing forests,
meadows, roads, rivers, lakes, seashore, and buildings. One to five
fires can be started at random or selected locations. The fires are
affected by wind conditions and fuel type. Wind direction and speed can
change randomly or can be changed manually. Wind speed can vary from one
to 60 knots. Dispatch the crews to the fire via roads or overland and
cut firelines. Dispatch the air tankers to the drop zones and dump
retardant on the fire. Spot fires will form ahead of the fire in high
wind and heavy fuel conditions. A status bar at the top of the map
keeps track of acres on fire, acres burned, structures destroyed and
simulation time.
The registered version of this program, 'Firestorm Pro' is used by over
200 firefighting agencies to train wildland fire fighters. The
registered version also includes four different maps, a helitack
(helicopter) to do water drops, the ability to record and play back
simulations, set backfires and other features. The files also contain
demo versions of Firestorm Pro, Map Designer (to create your own
Firestorm maps) and Wildfire (an urban/wildland interface fire
simulation with eight urban/wildland interface maps). Firestorm 2000 is
an upgrade of Firestorm with improved graphics and sound.DOS program,
but will run under Windows 3.1, 95 or 98, icon included.
Special requirements: None.
fssw2k.zip has replaced fstorm17.zip.
Shareware. Uploaded by the author.
John Daigle, Cricket Software
jjcricket@juno.com
