U.S. Forest ServiceU.S. Forest ServiceFire and Aviation Fire and Aviation

ManagementManagement

Cross Boundary Fires Cross Boundary Fires U.S. and CanadaU.S. and Canada

Patti HiramiDirector, Eastern RegionFire and Aviation Management

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Common Elements for Common Elements for Cross Boundary Fire Cross Boundary Fire

FightingFighting

• Agreements for Agreements for Initial and Initial and Extended fire Extended fire firefightingfirefighting

• Share ground and Share ground and aviation resourcesaviation resources

• Joint TrainingJoint Training• Border crossing Border crossing

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US/Canada Elements of US/Canada Elements of Success Success

• Similar land Similar land objectivesobjectives

• Prescribed fire as Prescribed fire as a vegetation a vegetation management tool management tool

• Incident Command Incident Command SystemSystem

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Superior National Forest/Province of OntarioSuperior National Forest/Province of Ontario

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Fire Behavior under Planned ConditionsFire Behavior under Planned Conditions

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National Interagency Incident Management System

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1. Flexible for incidents of any kind and size.

2. Agencies use the same system on normal situations as well as major emergencies.

3. Must be sufficiently standard to allow personnel from a variety of agencies and diverse geographic locations to rapidly meld into a common management structure.

4. The system must be cost effective.12

• Incident Management Incident Management • Incident Command System (ICS)• Unified Command

• TrainingTraining

• Qualifications and CertificationsQualifications and Certifications

• Publication ManagementPublication Management

• Supporting TechnologySupporting Technology• Multi-Agency Coordination System• MACS and MAC Groups

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• 1985 - NIMS/ICS adopted by all federal, state and local wildland fire agencies.

• 2001 – Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

• 2003 – Presidential mandate that ICS to be used nationally for management of all hazards

• 2004 – Development of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) NIMS is based upon the Wildland Fire Community

National Interagency Incident Management System (NIIMS).

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ICS was adopted by the International Wildland Fire Summit in 2005.

United States Canada Australia New Zealand United Arab Emirates Mexico South Africa (for wildland fire) India (in transition) Sri Lanka (in transition) Philippines (in transition) Indonesia (in transition) ASEAN (in transition) 15

U.S. Forest U.S. Forest Service/CanadaService/Canada

Relationship Continues to Relationship Continues to GrowGrow

•Lessons learnedLessons learned•Training is very important after quiet seasons.•Scientists are needed for new information and applications•Strive to improve Strive to improve 16

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