Download or read book San Dimas Fire Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Management Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Management Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildland Fire Management written by Government Accountability Government Accountability Office and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the federal government has relied on firefighting aircraft to assist in wildland fire suppression activities. These aircraft perform various firefighting activities, including gathering intelligence by detecting fires and conducting assessments of ongoing fires; delivering supplies such as water, food, and ground-based firefighting equipment; transporting firefighters; providing coordination and direction to aerial and ground-based firefighters; and delivering retardant or water to extinguish or slow the growth of fires.
Download or read book Wildland Fire and Aviation Program Management Operations Guide Covering Wildfire Prevention Firefighting Equipment Smokejumpers Prescribed Burns and Suppression Chemicals Blue Book written by Department Of The Interior and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the Blue Book, this guide is a program reference that documents policy for management and operations of the Wildland Fire and Aviation Management Program for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Information presented here is based on current policy and provides program guidance to ensure safe, consistent, efficient and effective Wildland Fire and Aviation Operations. Chapter 1 - BIA Wildland Fire and Aviation Program Organization and Responsibilities * Chapter 2 - Program Policy, Leadership and Guidance * Chapter 3 - Program Planning * Chapter 4 - Program Preparedness/Readiness * Chapter 5 - Wildfire Prevention * Chapter 6 - Fire Fighting Equipment * Chapter 7 - Aviation Operations * Chapter 8 - Safety and Risk Management * Chapter 9 - Business Management and Administration * Chapter 10 - Incident Organization, Management and Operations * Chapter 11 - Developing a Response to Wildfires * Chapter 12 - Firefighting Training and Qualifications * Chapter 13 - Budget Management * Chapter 14 - Emergency Stabilization (ES) and Burned Area Rehabilitation (BAR) Programs * Chapter 15 - Rural Fire Assistance/Ready Reserve Programs * Chapter 16 - Tribal Contracts/Compacts * Chapter 17 - Reviews and Investigations * Chapter 18 - Suppression Chemicals & Deliver Systems Chapter 1 * BIA Wildland Fire and Aviation Program Organization and Responsibilities * Introduction * Wildland Fire Management Organization * Oversight Responsibilities * Director, Branch of Wildland Fire Management * Deputy Director, Branch of Wildland Fire Management * Assistant Director, Fire Operations * Associate Director, Fire Use & Fuels Management * Assistant Director, Planning * Assistant Director, Training * Aviation Program Manager * APPENDIX 1-1 - Bureau of Indian Affairs Wildland Fire & Aviation Management Organization Chart * Chapter 2 * Policy, Leadership and Guidance * Introduction * Federal Wildland Fire Policy * Guiding Principles * Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy * Guidance for Implementation of the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy * Implementation of the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy * Department of the Interior Wildland Fire Management Policy (1998) * Secretary of the Interior * Assistant Secretary - Policy, Management and Budget (PMB) * Assistant Secretaries for Land Minerals Management, Fish and Wildlife and Parks and Indian Affairs * Bureau of Indian Affairs Fire Management Policy * Mission * Wildland Fire Management Objectives * Responsibility * Wildland Fire Program Leadership * Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) * Federal Fire Policy Council (FFPC) * Fire Executive Council (FEC) * Interior Fire Executive Council (IFEC) * National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) * Wildland Fire Coordinating Groups * Office of Wildland Fire Coordination (OWFC) * National Multi-Agency Coordination Group (NMAC) * Geographic Multi-Agency Coordination Groups (GMAC) * Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) * National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) * Geographic Area Coordination Centers (GACC) * Wildland Fire Interagency Agreements for Coordination and Cooperation * Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture * Interagency Agreement * International Agreements * Memorandum of Understanding with Fire Departments * Interagency Agreement with US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service * National Standards - Guides and Handbooks * National Interagency Mobilization Guide (NFES 2092) * Incident Response Pocket Guide (PMS 461) * Memorandum of Understanding with Fire Departments * Wildland Fire Qualifications System Guide (PMS 310-1) * Fireline Handbook (PMS 410-1) * Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide * Interagency Incident Business Management Handbook (PMS 902) * The Interagency Burned Area Emergency Response Guidebook and Interagency Burned Area Rehabilitation Guidebook * Chapter 3 * Program Planning * Fire Management Plans * Purpose * Procedure
Download or read book Fire Management Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Attack on Forest Fires written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book USDA Fire and Aviation Management Fiscal Year 2006 in Review written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Attack Against Wildfires written by Edward G. Keating and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An aging fleet of contracted fixed-wing airtankers and two fatal crashes in 2002 led the U.S. Forest Service to investigate how to recapitalize its fleet of airtankers. The Forest Service asked RAND for assistance in determining the composition of a fleet of airtankers, scoopers, and helicopters that would minimize the total social costs of wildfires, including the cost of large fires and aircraft costs. The research team developed two separate but complementary models to estimate the optimal social cost-minimizing portfolio of initial attack aircraft -- that is, aircraft that support on-the-ground firefighters in containing a potentially costly fire while it is still small. The National Model allocates aircraft at the national level, incorporating data on ten years of historical wildfires, and the Local Resources Model provides a more nuanced view of the effect of locally available firefighting resources, relying on resource allocation data from the Forest Service's Fire Program Analysis system. Both models favor a fleet mix dominated by water-carrying scoopers, with a niche role for retardant-carrying airtankers. Although scoopers require proximity to an accessible body of water, they have two advantages: shorter cycle times to drop water and lower cost. Two uncertainties could affect the overall optimal fleet size, however: future improvements in the dispatch of aircraft to fires and the value attributed to fighting already-large fires with aircraft."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Wildland Fire Management written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The Forest Service and Interior contract for aircraft to perform various firefighting functions, including airtankers that drop retardant. The Forest Service contracts for large airtankers and certain other aircraft, while Interior contracts for smaller airtankers and water scoopers. However, a decrease in the number of large airtankers, from 44 in 2002 to 8 in early 2013-due to aging planes and several fatal crashes-has led to concerns about the agencies' ability to provide aerial firefighting support. GAO was asked to review agency efforts to ensure the adequacy of the firefighting aircraft fleet. This report examines (1) Forest Service and Interior efforts to identify the number and type of firefighting aircraft they need and (2) the Forest Service's approach to modernizing the large airtanker fleet and the challenges it faces in doing so. GAO reviewed agency studies and strategies, assessing the extent to which they included key elements important for understanding fire aviation needs; reviewed large airtanker planning and acquisition documents; and interviewed agency officials and representatives of the fire aviation community selected to represent state agencies, aircraft vendors, and others. "
Download or read book Air Operations for Forest Brush and Grass Fires written by National Fire Protection Association. Forest Committee and published by National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). This book was released on 1975 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Attack Against Wildfires written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An aging fleet of contracted fixed-wing airtankers and two fatal crashes in 2002 led the U.S. Forest Service to investigate how to recapitalize its fleet of airtankers. The Forest Service asked RAND for assistance in determining the composition of a fleet of airtankers, scoopers, and helicopters that would minimize the total social costs of wildfires, including the cost of large fires and aircraft costs. The research team developed two separate but complementary models to estimate the optimal social cost-minimizing portfolio of initial attack aircraft -- that is, aircraft that support on-the-ground firefighters in containing a potentially costly fire while it is still small. The National Model allocates aircraft at the national level, incorporating data on ten years of historical wildfires, and the Local Resources Model provides a more nuanced view of the effect of locally available firefighting resources, relying on resource allocation data from the Forest Service's Fire Program Analysis system. Both models favor a fleet mix dominated by water-carrying scoopers, with a niche role for retardant-carrying airtankers. Although scoopers require proximity to an accessible body of water, they have two advantages: shorter cycle times to drop water and lower cost. Two uncertainties could affect the overall optimal fleet size, however: future improvements in the dispatch of aircraft to fires and the value attributed to fighting already-large fires with aircraft."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Use of Aircraft in Wildland Fire Control written by California. Legislature. Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Legislative Analyst and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Aerial Firefighting Activities on Airports written by Tim Phillips (consultant.) and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2012 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synthesis study is intended to provide a review of current airport and agency [primarily the U.S. Forest Service (USFS)] practices, policies, and procedures at airports called upon to support aerial wildland firefighting suppression efforts. Information used in this study was acquired through a review of the literature and interviews with ten airport operators (representing 13 airports), two commercial helicopter operators, and one regional fire center manager to gather insights on the current state of airport practices that support aerial wildland firefighting suppression efforts. The interviews followed a series of questions in areas such as community and economic matters, contracts, operations, and general business practices. While the interviews were structured, the interviewees were encouraged to freely discuss matters related to the topic of the study and to offer information on the subject that they believed was important--
Download or read book Improving Air Support for Wildfire Management in the United States written by Naval Postgraduate School and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of aviation in wildfire management is essential to combating a growing hazard across the United States, but the modern organizational framework employed by the federal government is faulty. Chief among the problems is the contract-based approach; with rampant inefficiencies, unsafe practices, and stagnant culture that resists innovation, the contracted structure has wasted billions of dollars and cost firefighters their lives. This book looks at three options to take over the aviation wildfire responsibilities-the active duty military, the National Guard, and a new DHS agency-in terms of the legal, societal, fiscal, and organizational implications of each alternative. The active duty option would sacrifice traditional military readiness for a wildfire mission; the new DHS agency would require far too great an expense in political capital and funding to get started, in the absence of a focusing event. The National Guard option offers the most practical and acceptable solution for politicians and the public to provide an improved aviation service. With unique flexibility to operate under state or federal control, the National Guard would bring professional military capabilities to their existing role in wildfire management.
Download or read book Firefighting Aircraft written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy Safety Risk Management Chemicals and Delivery Systems Firefighting Training and Equipment written by Department Of The Interior and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important government publication with Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations, states, references, or supplements policy for Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service fire and fire aviation program management. Chapter 01 - Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy Overview * Chapter 02 - BLM Program Organization and Responsibilities * Chapter 03 - NPS Program Organization and Responsibilities * Chapter 04 - FWS Program Organization and Responsibilities * Chapter 05 - FS Program Organization and Responsibilities * Chapter 06 - Reserved * Chapter 07 - Safety and Risk Management * Chapter 08 - Interagency Coordination and Cooperation * Chapter 09 - Fire Management Planning * Chapter 10 - Preparedness * Chapter 11 - Incident Management * Chapter 12 - Suppression Chemicals and Delivery Systems * Chapter 13 - Firefighting Training and Qualifications * Chapter 14 - Firefighting Equipment * Chapter 15 - Communications * Chapter 16 - Aviation Operations and Resources * Chapter 17 - Fuels Management * Chapter 18 - Reviews and Investigations * Chapter 19 - Dispatch and Coordination System Guiding Principles of the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy - 1. Firefighter and public safety is the first priority in every fire management activity. 2. The role of wildland fire as an essential ecological process and natural change agent will be incorporated into the planning process. Federal agency land and resource management plans set the objectives for the use and desired future condition of the various public lands. 3. Fire Management Plans (FMPs), programs, and activities support Land and Resource Management Plans and their implementation. 4. Sound risk management is a foundation for all fire management activities. Risks and uncertainties relating to fire management activities must be understood, analyzed, communicated, and managed as they relate to the cost of either doing or not doing an activity. Net gains to the public benefit will be an important component of decisions. 5. Fire management programs and activities are economically viable, based upon values to be protected, costs, and land and resource management objectives. Federal Agency Administrators are adjusting and re-organizing programs to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. As part of this process, investments in fire management activities must be evaluated against other agency programs in order to effectively accomplish the overall mission, set short and long term priorities, and clarify management accountability. 6. FMPs and activities are based upon the best available science. Knowledge and experience are developed among all wildland fire management agencies. An active fire research program combined with interagency collaboration provides the means to make these tools available to all fire managers. 7. FMPs and activities incorporate public health and environmental quality considerations.
