10. – 11. Nov. 2010 – Ispra / JRC

Franz Humer

Austrian federal fire brigade association

Forest Fire Report 2009

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Agenda

Report 2009

Projekts

– create a new database

– cooperation with the projekt „ALP FFIRS“

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Report 2009

Wildland fires:

– 612 actions (1.368 actions: 2008)

– ~ 28 ha burned area

Forest fires:

– 218 actions (476 actions: 2008)

– ~ 22 ha burned area (most of them in the mountains)

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database

Basics:

– Austria is a federal state with 9 provinces, 99 districts and 2.350 municipalities (~ 8 Mio. inhabitants, ~ 84.000 sq km)

– 4.567 fire brigades (99% voluntary)

– Response time < 10 – 15 minutes

The database-mistake in the history:

– 1 wildland or forest fire 2 – 5 reports from the fire brigade

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Projekts

Create a new database in coorperation with the university of natural ressources and applied life sciences (institute of silviculture)

– Online plattform with a form for all users (municipalities, farmers, fire brigade …)

http://waldbau-q.boku.ac.at/affriformular2.php

–Since 2009

Aim: have a good database for Austria and also for JRC

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Projekts

Cooperation with „ALP FFIRS“Alpin Forest Fire Warning Systemwww.alpffirs.eu

6 Countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland)

14 public institutions – universities, weather services, regional / national authorities in charge of prevention, forestry services and federation of fire brigades

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Projekts

APL FFIRS

Sub actions:

– User committee constitution and shared procedures description

– Comparison of the current wildland fires procedures

– Harmonized an synergetic long lasting operational protocols

– Common wildland fires alert protocol

– Education: wildland fires training progamm

– …

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