Documents about wildfire

13 Watch Out Situations. These are color posters of the original 13 Situations That Shout Watch Out that were in the basic 32-hour wildland firefighter training developed by the El Cariso Hot Shots 1972-1973. Feel free to use them as you see fit. They were developed by the U.S. Government. This is a large 14 Mb zipped file.
Air Tanker Studies:
- 1974, NASA Air Tanker Study
- 1992, National Study of Type I and II Helicopters to Support Large Fire Suppression
- 1995, National Airtanker Study, Phase 1 (main body of report)
- 1995, National Airtanker Study, Phase 1 (appendices)
- 1996, National Airtanker Study, Phase 2 (11 Mb)
- 1985, Operational Retardant Evaluation
- 1988, Operational Retardant Evaluation Update
- 1998, National Study of Tactical Aerial Resource Management to Support Initial Attack and Large Fire Suppression
- 1999, Fire Management Notes article (about air tanker studies)
- 2002, Blue Ribbon Panel
- 2005, Wildland Fire Management Aerial Application Study
- 2007, Effectiveness & Efficiency of Aerial Firefighting in Australia, Part 1
- 2009, National Interagency Aviation Council
- 2009, USDA OIG Audit Report
- 2009, NASA’s Very Large Aerial Tanker report
- 2011, Airtankers & wildfire management in the US Forest Service: data, usage, cost
- 2012, RAND: Air Attack Against Wildfires
- 2012, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station
- 2012, AVID firefighting aircraft study (10 Mb file)
- 2012, Large Airtanker Modernization Strategy
- 2013, Convergent C-27J report
- 2013, Government Accountability Office report (3 Mb)
- 2013, Colorado Air Tanker Study
- 2013, Large airtanker use & outcomes in suppressing fires in the US
- 2015, Fighting Fire in the Heat of the Day (with large air tankers)
- 2017, Aerial Firefighting Use and Effectiveness, Fact Sheet
- 2019, Aerial Firefighting Use and Effectiveness, Fact Sheet
- 2020, Impact of Utilizing Aerial Tankers in Fighting Forest Fires
- 2020, Colorado CoE Evaluation of Water Enhancers
Bibliography of Wildland Fire Smoke Exposure Assessments, by NIOSH (70k)
California Governor’s Blue Ribbon Report, FIRESCOPE, 2003 (huge 20 Mb file)
CR 337 Fire, Heat Illness fatality, BLM Report (0.9 Mb)
CR 337 Fire, Heat Illness fatality, NIOSH Report (3.9 Mb)
Coen: Infrared Imagery of Crown Fire Dynamics (5.2 Mb)
Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy 02-13-2009.pdf (1 Mb)
Fire Management Notes, Vol 59, No. 1, Winter, 1999. (0.8 Mb) This edition has a summary of the National Air Tanker Study (NATS) which was released in two phases in 1995 and 1996. It recommended that 38 to 41 large air tankers be staffed nationally.
Infamous Wildland Fires Around the World, revised July 2, 2013 (141K) This is a partial list, by date of the year, of some of the more famous, or infamous, multiple fatality wildland fires around the world over the last 150 years.
Iron Complex fire, 9-fatality helicopter crash at Helispot 44, NTSB recommendations (20 K)
Jesusita Fire Burnover, Summary Report, Green Sheet (869 K)
Logging Slash Fire Burn Injury, Final Report (1.6 Mb)
Mass Fires and Fire Behavior, Clive M. Countryman, 1964 (12 Mb)
NIOSH and U.S. Fire Administration study of cancer among firefighters. 2010 to 2015
Redrock-Trailer fires: Norovirus Lessons Learned (60K)
Sadler Fire Entrapment Analysis (154K)
Volusia County, FL, Chain Saw Fatality (1.7 Mb)
Water Vs. Fire, Fighting Forest Fires With Water, 1950, by CDF & USFS (3.9 Mb)

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Thank you Bill for your coverage! This is the first time my husband has been out and it really is helping me with him being gone. i am gratefull to know what is going on and know the newest info is available for me.

Great stuff!

Your photography is extraordinary. I hate to say but some of the fire pictures are awesome. Have you thought about making posters out of them or posting them on stumble upon?

I live in Colorado and am watching the fire by Pikes Peak as the smoke bellows upward. The ground crunches at my house on top of Palmer Divide. I know I am a long way from the fire, but I feel apprehensive and afraid. After seeing the map, with the States of Utah, Nevada and a whole lot of Colorado burning, my nerves are on edge. The road between Colorado Springs and Woodland Park where my daughter’s boyfriend can’t get to work….I am afraid of those people over on that side being able to “get out.” My daughter has several friends over there. What if their homes and works burn down? I feel helpless. The former Haymen fire is starting to grow a lot of aspen trees, but they aren’t very big yet. I am so worried. If I knew how to put a picture of the smoke on here I would. I did discover something on another site I found yesterday called earthyeasy.com. It is a video of Ted or Teds.com (can’t remember which), which showed how a fungus can help rejuvinate forests very quickly. I just found these sites yesterday, but the idea is such a good one, I thought I would pass it on. The kind of fungus (mushrooms) he talks about, seems really easy to grow. Anyway, hope this helps someone, as much as I appreciate both your site and theirs. Wow, I found both your sites in one 24-hour period so it must be meant to be.

I am glad you started this site so that I can stay partly informed.

Do you have any recommendations of the best roofing systems including a flammability ranking of each type of roofing to use in new construction in forest areas. We are about to build on 5 acres of thinned forest on a ridge over looking Flathead Lake.

Thanks.