FE Volume 171 Issue 8
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Eating Away a Threat
Goats help a Colorado town mitigate wildland understory to reduce fire severity.
The Roaring Lion: Strategies for Community Preplanning for WUI Incidents
Strategies for working with the community to preplan for wildland-urban incidents.
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Working with Aircraft
As wildland fire conditions continue to increase in intensity each year throughout the West, wildland firefighters have to react with improved tactics and a rapid response with both ground and air assets such as rotor-wing and fixed-wing aircraft.
Hotshots: The Firefighter’s Firefighter
While wildland firefighters face significant demands during the typical fire season, the expectations placed on smokejumpers, rappelers, and hotshots are even more demanding.
A Challenge of Unified Command: Authorities at the Scene
Alan Tresemer explains that an incident that involves multiple agencies can be challenging from the aspects of command and management (who is in charge?) and that knowing the contents of the pertinent state and federal laws can help to prevent chaos on the emergency ground.
The Identification Chief: The Americanized Population Behavior Officer
Stephen Coover looks at how you can improve a bad situation through the creation of an Identification Chief, an American version of an Israeli Population Behavior Officer.
It’s Out the Windows
“It’s out the windows” has had a lot of meanings and lessons learned over the years, and that’s why you need to be careful when you window shop.
Eight Ways Fire Officers Must Communicate
Consistent communication is the single greatest determinant of a fire officer’s effectiveness. Eight ways officers can communicate to firefighters are offered.
Questions to Ask Potential Leaders
Thomas E. Poulin explains why certain questions pertaining to leadership should be part of the testing process for promotion in the fire service and that responsibilities and required skills increase and change as leaders move up the promotional ladder.
What to Tell the Chief
The decisions the chief makes are only as good as the information he already has and whatever new information he gathers at the incident scene. As a student, he has prepared as much as possible from books, classes, and experience. When responding to and operating at an incident, he uses senses to gather additional information. But his most important information sources are the firefighters operating at the scene.