Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party on lands of another Party shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agency’s fire management policy, preplanned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement. A Special Management Considerations section in the Operating Plan, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Unit Administrators of the Agencies to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire management actions and any restrictions on firefighting tactical techniques to an Incident Commander. Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process, subject to the delegation of authority. Each Operating Plan must address how the entities will handle cost sharing for wildland fires that spread to another jurisdiction. Entities should recognize that, as in the, Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009), a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Additionally, objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Simply stated, some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for multiple objectives, and those portions and objectives might change at some time over the duration of the event. The intent should never be to allow a wildland fire to burn onto a jurisdiction that does not want it. All Parties should be involved in developing the strategy and tactics to be used in preventing the fire from crossing the jurisdictional boundary, and all Parties should be involved in developing mitigations that would be used if the fire crosses jurisdictional boundaries.
Response to Wildland Fire. 1. Management Response for Wildland Fire: Agency administrators should include nearby jurisdictions and landowners that could be affected, through planning, strategy development, seeking additional information to understand the adjacent landowners’ concerns.
Response to Wildland Fire. 1. Agency administrators should include nearby jurisdictions and landowners that could be affected, through planning, strategy development, seeking additional information to understand the adjacent landowners’ concerns.
2. Wildfires on federal lands that are not human caused may be managed for multiple objectives as established in land and resource management plans. These areas and the process for fire management in these areas will be documented in Sub-Geographic Operating plans. Adjacent fire protection entities, including state and local government, should be consulted regarding fire management strategies utilized in these areas, and share decision-making whenever possible. For fires under protection responsibility of the state, under Montana Statute, the State’s objective in response to wildland fire is fire suppression.
3. All fire agencies have primary responsibility for fire suppression with their respective protection areas. All agencies, as appropriate, should be involved in developing the strategy, tactics, and mitigation actions to be used if the fire has potential to impact another protection area. When the fire spread to another protection area is imminent or appears likely, the agencies will identify financial responsibilities and, as appropriate, cost share methodologies, and document the decisions and rationale. If agreement cannot be reached regarding financial responsibilities, discussion will be elevated to the next level agency administrators for the respective agencies.
4. Protecting agencies will share staffing level response to meet Jurisdictional Agency objectives. These expectations/staffing levels will be discussed between both Parties and the expected response will be agreed to annually. Protecting agencies will be expected to be fully staffed from June 1 until September 15 each year. Protecting agencies will be expected to respond to wildfires outside of these dates as conditions warrant but may not be fully staffed depending upon funding. If a Protecting Agency is not able to provide the resources required for additional staffing outside of these dates or to meet additional resource protection requirements for the area due to special management requirements (i.e., additional resource protection requirements protecting sage grouse habitat, special events on Jurisdictional Agency land, etc.), the Jurisdictional Agency may provide additional preparedness costs or additional resources to the protection agency. Additional preparedne...
Response to Wildland Fire. The mobilization of the necessary services and responders to a fire based 45 on ecological, social, and legal consequences, the circumstances under which a fire occurs, and the 46 likely consequences on firefighter and public safety and welfare, natural and cultural resources, and 47 values to be protected.
Response to Wildland Fire. Initial Response is defined as the initial decisions and actions taken in reaction to a reported incident. Initial attack is defined as the action taken by the resources on a wildland fire that are first to arrive at the incident. Extended attack is defined as the actions taken by resources on a wildland fire that has not been contained within the first operational period. All unplanned fires on federal land require a response and a decision. This is best communicated with clear objectives and an “incident strategy”. The incident strategy is based on the following criteria: ❖ Should lead to meeting the objectives ❖ Risk to firefighters (Life First Concepts/Risk Management – probability and the consequences of fire impacting values at risk vs. the risk to firefighters put in place to mitigate the risk of fire impacting values.) ❖ Fuels, Weather and Topography influencing the fire and the anticipated spread of the fire ❖ Values truly at Risk: Communities, Infrastructure, Watersheds, Social, Ecological, Cultural, etc. ❖ Partner agencies and their objectives (if the fire is or is expected to be multi jurisdictional) ❖ Cost of meeting objectives ❖ Smoke Management: Coordination with the States and monitoring ❖ Desired conditions (outlined in the USFS Land Management Plan or other documents) ❖ Resource Availability ❖ Fire modelling Tools ❖ Seasonality – duration of fire/change in conditions Agency Administrators and Fire Managers assess the criteria above and then develop a strategy to successfully manage the fire and meet objectives. The strategy may use natural barriers, changes in weather, fuel changes or rely heavily on the efforts of firefighters and aircraft. It could be a combination of all these elements (and usually is).
Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression action conducted by one Party on lands of another Party shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agency’s fire management policy, preplanned objectives for the area in which the fire occurs, and the terms of this Agreement.
Response to Wildland Fire. The protection of human life is the single, overriding suppression priority. Setting additional priorities among protecting human communities and community infrastructure, other property and improvements, and natural and cultural resources will be done based on an evaluation of the values to be protected, human health and safety, and the costs of protection. Dispatching of initial attack suppression resources uses the closest available and appropriate resource as determined by the Protecting Agency FMO. This dispatch procedure applies to all responding Jurisdictional or Protecting Agency resources. Operational control, as defined in Exhibit A: Wildland Fire Glossary of Terms, of wildfire incidents is the responsibility of the Protecting Agency. The Protecting Agency FMO will assign an Incident Commander and provide supervision and support including oversight, direction, and logistical support for wildfires. The Protecting Agency FMO will retain operational control of all fires including those that are unstaffed. The Protecting Agency will be responsible for fulfilling daily interagency incident reporting requirements and will prepare the final fire report for certification by the affected Jurisdictional Agencies. Jurisdictional Agencies are responsible for all fire reporting required by internal agency policy. When requested, the Protecting Agency will provide digital photos (aerial preferred) to the Jurisdictional Agency for decision support documentation. Special Management Considerations Detection The Protecting Agencies will provide fire detection coverage based on levels of lightning activity and human use or at the Jurisdictional Agency’s request. Initial Response Upon discovery, the Protecting Agency is responsible to determine, verify and document the incident location, the Jurisdictional Agency, management option, and cause, and implement the initial response. Notification procedures are addressed in the AIWFMP and Section V.1.A of this Statewide Operating Plan. The Alaska Interagency Wildland Fire Management Plan (AIWFMP) is incorporated by reference into this Statewide Operating Plan. Its purpose is to promote a cooperative, consistent, cost-effective, interagency approach to wildland fire management and it is the interagency reference for wildfire operational information. It specifies direction for the response to a wildfire that is based on the management option designation and provides guidelines to Jurisdictional and Protecting Agencies for ...
Response to Wildland Fire. The mobilization of the necessary services and responders to a fire based on ecological, social, and legal consequences, the circumstances under which a fire occurs, and the likely consequences on firefighter and public safety and welfare, natural and cultural resources, and values to be protected. Severity Funding: Suppression funds used to increase the level of pre-suppression capability and fire preparedness when predicted or actual burning conditions exceed those normally expected, due to severe weather conditions. Xxxxxxxx Act Response: the mobilization of the necessary services and resources to a request from FEMA under the provisions of the Xxxxxxxx Act and based on the procedures and requirements established in the NRF. State: Any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any possession of the United States. (As defined in section 2(14) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Public Law 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135, et seq. (2002).)
Response to Wildland Fire. All fire suppression actions conducted on lands of other Agencies shall be consistent with the Jurisdictional Agency’s land management policy and the terms of this agreement. Initial Attack: For the purpose of initial attack, the first IC on scene qualified at any level will assume the duties of initial attack IC. The initial attack IC will have responsibility for all suppression efforts on the incident up to his/her level of qualification until relieved by an IC qualified at a level commensurate with the incident complexity.
Response to Wildland Fire. The protection of human life is the single, overriding suppression priority. Setting priorities among protecting human communities and community infrastructure, other property and improvements, and natural and cultural resources will be done based on the values to be protected, human health and safety, and the costs of protection. All fire suppression actions conducted on lands of another Party shall be consistent with that Party’s fire management plan/policy and the terms of this Agreement. A “Special Management Considerations” section in the AIWFMP and the UFMP, addressing resources and other management concerns, will be used by Jurisdictional Agency unit administrators to identify areas of special management consideration, and to communicate appropriate fire strategic objectives and constraints in firefighting tactical techniques i.e. use of retardant or dozers to the Protecting Agency. The Jurisdictional Agency may provide an agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise the Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression actions. The Incident Commander will incorporate special management considerations into the incident planning process. The Parties to this Agreement recognize that, as in the Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009), the AIWFMP, and Unit FMPs, a wildland fire may concurrently be managed for one or more objectives. Objectives can change as the fire spreads across the landscape, affected by changes in environmental conditions, human influence, and institutional factors. Some portions of a wildland fire may receive a protection objective while other portions are managed for resource objectives, and those portions and objectives may change over the duration of the event. All affected Parties should be involved in developing the strategic objectives.
