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On Protection of Towns from Fire — Benjamin Franklin, 1735

On Making Official History Honest — Kent Robert Greenfield, 1954

LCES—a Key to Safety in the Wildland Fire Environment — Paul Gleason, 1991

Attitude Check — Bill Fish, 1995

TriData Phase IV, “Developing a Cooperative Approach to Wildfire Protection” — Charles Perrow, 1998

Lessons From Thirtymile: Transition Fires And Fire Orders — Jerry Williams, 2001

Loop Fire Disaster Brief — November, 1966

1967 Task Force Report

• Preface
• Introduction
• Downhill Line Operations and “Chimneys”
• Communications
• Improve Scouting at All Critical Points
• Organization
• Protective Shelters
• Fire Protective Clothing
• Pre-Attack Planning and Construction
• Fuelbreak System
• Fire Behavior and Fire Research
• Appendix

2005 Fire Prevention and Safety grant application

• Synopsis and Budget
• Risk Assessment
• Evaluation
• Implementation Plan
• Justification

REPORT OF
THE FIRE SAFETY REVIEW TEAM

MARCH 1967

A PLAN TO FURTHER REDUCE
THE CHANCES OF MEN BEING BURNED WHILE FIGHTING FIRES

PRE-ATTACK PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION

The Loop Fire Analysis Group recommended that we “reexamine the full array of presuppression activities in flash fuel areas and establish the benefits plus or minus of accelerating the fuelbreak system in relation to safety and its place in the balance of all presuppression activities.”

In many of the critical fire areas funds have been made available for preattack projects.  Good progress has been made especially in the flashy fuel types.  Standards have been developed and guidelines have been published in a Pre-Attack Handbook.

Pre-Attack is a planned systematic procedure for the gathering, evaluating and recording of intelligence, as well as the construction of certain fire control facilities, to insure the rapid and efficient suppression of fire on any given area.

To the present time, the most intensive pre-attack planning has been done in Southern California forests where fire control is the primary job.  Timber, recreation, grazing, and other resources have functional management plans.  Pre-attack planning should be integrated with these resource management plans.  When the resource management plan is activated the end result should enhance the pre-attack plan.

Grazing revegetation projects, wildlife habitat browseways, timber sale block, etc., all can be coordinated with fire control needs.

Recommendation:

Continue and expand coordination of fire control and resource plans to facilitate progress in pre-attack planning and construction.

WASHINGTON OFFICE COMMENTS:

Though the recommendation is not fully responsive to the problem, it is  approved.   Both the following action guides and those on page 21 deal with this problem.  For safety reasons, priority should be given to areas where fast fuels are common but this program has strong potential for more permanently reducing the threat from large wildfires on almost all forest, brush and range lands.  Since the pre-attack plan would serve as the device for coordinating Fire Control needs with resource activities, we should speed up preattack planning and expand its scope Service-wide.

ACTION GUIDES:

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