2011 fire season
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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
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