2011 fire season

2011 FIRE SEASONFLORIDA

TEXASGEORGIA

INITIAL ATTACK DISPATCH AIRCRAFT DISPATCH SUPERVISORY DISPATCH INCIDENTS PHOTOS MILITARY (GUARD) RESPONSE TO FIRES. SOUTHERN AREA COORDINATION CENTER

2011 FIRE SEASON

INITIAL ATTACKTHE PROMPT DISPATCH OF RESOURCES TO AN INCIDENT AND ASSUMING INCIDENT COMMAND TILL PROPER COMMAND IS ESTABLISHED AT INCIDENT. THEN SUPPORT INCIDENT .FIRST 24 HOURS OF AN INCIDENT.

RADIO COMMUNICATIONS ,PHONES ,FLIGHT FOLLOWING PLACING OF RESOURCE ORDERS,SUPPLIES ,FOOD, WEATHER AND SPOT FORECASTS.

INITIAL ATTACK DISPATCHER

Texas Forest Service office. Fire very close to the office.

FIRE CAN BE MILES AWAY OR JUST OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW

AIRCRAFT DISPATCHTHE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT ASSIGNED TO AN INCIDENT. THE PROCURMENT OF ADITIONAL RESOURCES. THE SELECTION OF APROPIATE RESOURCES FOR THE MISSION.

FLIGHT FOLLOW AIR RESOURCES TALK TO FIX WING AND ROTOR ACCETS COORDINATION WITH Heli base managers, SEAT Managers , Air tanker base managers. Coordinate with

the incident Air Operations Branch Director for the Incident Management Teams.

AIRCRAFT DISPATCHER

This airtanker is currently in use in Texas.

T-910 CD-10 Air Tanker

SUPERVISORY DISPATCH

THE MANAGEMENT OF AN EXPANDED DISPATCH OPERATION IN SUPPORT OF AN INCIDENT OR VARIOUS INCIDENTS INCLUDING INCIDENTS WHERE A INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM AS BEEN ASSIGNED.

Multiple dispatchers including Expanded Dispatch Recorders , Expanded dispatch, support dispatchers and the Supervisory dispatcher man the

expanded dispatch area.

Texas Interagency Coordination Center

Resource orders are processed for each incident ,demobe coordination can also occur in expanded. Expanded can be set up per incident or per functional area,

overhead, equipment, crews ,supplies.

Expanded dispatch

INCIDENT PHOTOS

Firefighter doing a back burn.

Fight Fire with Fire

Heavy Air tankers drop 3,00 gallons of retardant.

Heavy Air tanker doing a drop on the fire.

Fires can be on the ground creping and smoldering or they might climb and crown .

Roads can be used as fire lines.

Bear Creek fire burned 41,000 acres.

Fire can be miles long

Wild land fires do not only impact grass, brush, trees and wildlife. They also impact homes, barns, businesses and infrastructure.

House on fire

Wild land Fire Engines are specifically designed to work on rugged terrains.

Wild land Fire Engine

SEATS CAN DO 400 TO 800 GALLONS OF RETARDANT.

SEAT DROPPING RETARDANT

HELICOPTERS ARE USED MOSTLY TO DROP WATER ON THE FIRES HOT SPOTS .

TYPE 1 HELITANKER

Water scoopers .They can do 1,600 gallons of water per drop. They need a water source at least a mile long.

CL-215

Road is being used as fire break and staging area

Sky crane doing water drops.

Lok closer to attachment in the back of the dozer. The attachment makes it a Tractor Plow.

TFS Dozer knocking down a burned tree.

MILITARY RESPONSE TO INCIDENTS

NATIONAL GUARDARMY AND AIR FORCE

111th Engineer Battalion

TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD

DOZER TEAM

TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD

DOZER AND GUARDSMAN WEARING PROPPER PPE

TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD

DOZERS ARE USED TO BUILD CONTAINMENT LINES AROUND FIRES.

TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD

Lines are created as firebreaks

Dozer line

DOZERS ARE VERY EFFECTIVE IN FLAT TERRAIN TO CONTAIN FIRES.

CONTAINMENT LINES

Bucket work

UH-60 fighting fire with bucket.

Texas air National Guard

Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System

Lead Plane in front of a MAFFS leading it into a drop.

MAFFS

Southern Area Coordination Center

Atlanta , Georgia.

Coordination for all the region resources and with National Coordination Center

Regional Dispatch Office