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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
1984, Project Aquarius , Australia
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
2009, Evaluating Prototype S-3B Firefighting Aircraft
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, Fire Suppression Resource Scarcity (air tankers & Type 1 hand crews)
2020, Colorado CoE Evaluation of Water Enhancers
2020, Aerial Firefighting Use and Effectiveness
Bibliography of Wildland Fire Smoke Exposure Assessments , by NIOSH (70k)California Department of Forestry, Fire Control Handbook , 1977 (large 10.2 Mb file)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.Forest Fire Fighting Fundamentals , (2.3 Mb) 1940s or 1950s.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 2015Redrock-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)
