Adaptive Management Services

Projects

Rapid Response Fire Project 2002

Progress to Date (December 2002)

Most of the first year was spent constructing equipment, recruiting and training the rapid response crews, and testing the fire behavior equipment. Our rapid response team (crews) was recruited from fire staff from various agencies and to date we have half from the National Park Service and half from the US Forest Service.  We held several training sessions including time trials for the field measurements and safety analysis and mitigation measure development with single resource bosses. We tested the field equipment several times.

We successfully interacted with two Incident Management Teams (IMT’s) on two fires during 2002. We tested the fire behavior video equipment on the White Wolf Wildland Use Fire in Yosemite National Park. [View MPEG video clip] This was our first formal interaction with an IMT and it went smoothly. The second IMT interaction was with the Cone Fire on the Lassen National Forest. While the fire was contained before we were able to set-up equipment, we formally interacted with the Type II IMT, following operational procedures for our operation on fires.

We have presented the project at several venues to date and are planning on additional presentations. This included at the California Fuels Committee Meeting, the Fire Conference in San Diego and at several US Forest Service fire training events. We also provided briefings at the fires we attended.