Local Topics RT 130 2023

                                                                  Local Topics

Local Topics: (replacing Current Issues) Review and discuss local topics and areas of concern that can impact firefighter safety in the upcoming fire season.

Jury finds Pacific Corp responsible for 2020 Labor Day Fires (6-14-23)

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/06/14/punitive-damages-assessed-pacificorp-role-2020-oregon-wildfires/

Fire Season 2022 barely touched NPL 4 (or 5?) but we were busier than ever!

 

Wildland fire acreage by year
http://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/wildfires   

Predictive Services Products for the near future:

            https://www.predictiveservices.nifc.gov/outlooks/outlooks.htm 

 

Current Drought Monitor

           https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

 

Predictive Services Outlook

https://www.predictiveservices.nifc.gov                                                                                    

 

     

 Previous years:            

Animated Drought Monitor 2020

https://twitter.com/NWSBoulder/status/1344777303348236288  

 

Drought Monitor July 20,2021

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/us-drought-monitor-update-july-20-2021

 

 

     Hot examples:

June 28,2021 heat wave breaks records

 Heat wave called "The Most Extreme in World Weather Records"

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-07-12/scientists-call-northwest-heatwave-the-most-extreme-in-world-weather-records/

The fires got big:

           Bootleg Fire

            https://www.newsweek.com/oregons-bootleg-fire-grows-over-400k-acres-now-3rd-largest-wildfire-state-history-1612702

 

          Dixie Fire 963,309 acres

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Fire 

          

           PGE powerlines blamed for Dixie Fire-KTLA 1-4-2022

           https://ktla.com/news/california/wildfires/pge-power-lines-sparked-massive-dixie-fire-in-norcal-investigation-finds/

 

 

           Discuss other examples. 

           Formulate a list of reasons why the fires got so big.

 

WFSTAR 2021 Review video

https://www.nwcg.gov/publications/training-courses/rt-130/operations/op836

 

 

 

 

 2020

 

Yale Climate Paper https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/01/reviewing-the-horrid-global-2020-wildfire-season/

 

National Weather Service  Incident Meteorologists reviews of 2020

Storymap                            https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c6535ee477e14b72a20393a5f10aefbc

 

North Complex                 https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7a1003ed7de24919bd89327f52ff1fcd

 

East Troublesome             https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d8ef7c5f041d46e8931fc4498b3cad40

 

Beechie Creek                    https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b9d08274bca54e2d9f87b7c040b6f02b

 

Holiday Farm                      https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b8338917e8a2487d821e37b3e4d50047

 

How Bad is the 2020 Fire Season?

https://www.frbsf.org/our-district/about/sf-fed-blog/how-bad-2020-fire-season/ 

2020 is California's Worst Fire Season Ever-Again

https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-fires-damage-climate-change-analysis/

 

Five Reasons Why This Year is So Bad

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/08/california-fires-five-reasons-why-this-year-is-so-bad/

 

National Geographic-2020 Fire season/Slater Fire/Native American Fire Use

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/12/good-fire-bad-fire-indigenous-practice-may-key-preventing-wildfires/

 

2020: The Year Wildfires in the West spread Like the Plague, Stephen J. Pyne 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-year-wildfires-in-the-west-spread-like-the-plague-11607788801?page=1

 

 Changes caused by California's Worsening Wildfires Will Last Centuries

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-21/worst-california-wildfire-season-has-altered-forests-for-centuries-to-come

 

La Nina

LA Times story

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-11/what-does-la-nina-mean-for-californias-drought

 

Drought Monitor
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ 

 

Animated Drought Monitor 2020

https://twitter.com/NWSBoulder/status/1344777303348236288 

Personal Protective Equipment video
Link

Helicopter Operations video
Link 

Predictive Services Outlook

https://www.predictiveservices.nifc.gov

Medivac: How We Got Here  (from 2 More Chains)
Review Medivac Plans and 8 Line

Review Heat Related illness

Stop the Bleeding video
Link

Stop the Bleed campaign
Link

Tactical Trauma Kit #1  (choose "Kit Includes' button to view contents)
Contents Link

Using the Stretch-Wrap-and-Tuck Tourniquet (SWAT-T) ("Latex Tourniquet" found in the Tactical Trauma Kit #1)
Link

New Mark 3 pump design.
Link 



Kincade Fire Burnover 10-25-2019
Link