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Oolambeyan NP Air Photo

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Locality, Local Government and Topographic MapsFire Management Zones

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Contacts Position / Location Name Phone After hours Mobile Other Contacts

National Parks and Wildlife Service Police 6993 1100

Griffith Area Office 6966 8100 6966 8100 Ambulance 13 1233

Regional Manager Ross McDonnell 6966 8101 6962 5881 0418 453 283 SES - Hay 6993 1161

Area Manager Colin Killick 6966 8104 6964 8945 0427 668 100

Regional Operations Coordinator John Brickhill 6966 8112 6963 6902 0427 668 112

Oolambeyan NP Office Mick Domaille 6993 5804 6993 5810 Fax 6993 5809

Rural Fire Service, MIA Zone

Team Leader Kevin Adams 6964 5800 Fax 6962 1392

Operations Officer Rob Davies 6964 1144 6959 2090 0427 555 208

Duty Officer (All hours) 6964 6516

Captain, Boyd Brigade Harry Parslow 6993 2132 0407 932 132

Group Captain, Boyd Brigade Ray Townsend 6993 5812

Captain, Area E Brigade Bead Schiller 6993 1256

Deputy Captain, Area E Brigade Justin Campbell 6993 5181 0427 262 956

Operational Guidelines Resource Guidelines

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Management

• Brief all personnel involved in containment line construction and vehicle-based fire suppression operations of known/potential site locations and required protection strategies appropriate to site type.

• Avoid constructing new control lines with heavy machinery within 100 m of scalded areas, prior streamlines and black box depressions due to potential Aboriginal sites.

Historic Heritage Management • Brief all personnel on existence of European heritage sites and appropriate protection strategies.

Threatened Fauna and Flora Management

• Suppression strategies should be implemented with consideration of plains-wanderer (PW) habitat.

• In primary PW habitat avoid backburning and constructing new control lines by heavy machinery.

• In secondary PW habitat backburning and new control lines undertaken only in consultation with NPWS Staff.

• Where possible protect hollow bearing and isolated paddock trees from bushfire and suppression operations.

• Avoid the use of foam and chemical retardants in areas know to contain threatened species, such as along damp roadside drains.

Threatened Property • On-park priority will be given to protection of the homestead, senior field officer’s residence and shearing shed precincts.

• All property owners with assets at possible risk from fire will be kept informed of fire suppression operations and asked for an assessment of their own asset protection measures.

General Guidelines Aerial Waterbombing

• In very limited circumstances, bombing aircraft may support containment operations by attacking hotspots.

• Ground crews must be coordinated with water bombing operations.

Command and Control • First fire agency arriving will assume control of the fire and ensure that other agencies have been contacted.

• On the arrival of other fire agencies the initial Incident Controller will consult with the other agencies on the in-charge arrangements and the requirements for an Incident Management Team.

Containment Lines • Construction of new containment lines should be avoided, except where they can be constructed with limited environmental impact.

• All personnel involved in containment line construction should be briefed on cultural and natural heritage issues.

• Avoid having trees in proximity (50m) to new control lines where possible to reduce spotover potential.

• All containment lines not required for other purposes should be closed at the cessation of the incident.

Earth-moving machinery • Earthmoving machinery should be guided by NPWS personnel.

• Earthmoving machinery must be accompanied by a fire unit during suppression operations.

• Fire strategies using heavy earth moving equipment will be discussed with the Service’s Duty Officer before implementation.

• New control lines are to be constructed by grading rather than ploughing.

• If machinery is used in woodland areas, blade is to be kept just above ground level and used to remove vegetation only, to minimise soil disturbance.

Fire fighting chemicals • Foam and wetting agents permitted in all areas except within 50 m of open water or damp soil.

Rehabilitation • If required, containment lines should be stabilised and rehabilitated as part of the wildfire suppression operation.

Smoke Management • If smoke becomes a hazard on local roads, the police and relevant media must be notified.

• Smoke management must be in accordance with relevant RTA traffic management guidelines.

Visitor safety • If the fire poses a threat to visitors, the park will be closed.

Strategy Information Fire Management Objectives

• To restrict the extent of unplanned bushfires occurring on park - to avoid the local extinction of species and avoid damage to known cultural places and features.

• To protect persons and property on, or immediately adjacent to park by minimising the potential for bushfire to spread on, from or into the park.

Fire Season Information Wildfires • Primary fire season is December - March but fires can occur at any time when dry fuels are available.

• Lightning strikes associated with summer storms are the main causes of ignition.

Prescribed Burning • Prescribed burning may be undertaken for research purposes.

• Hazard reduction will be undertaken to reduce boxthorn piles created after pest management activities.

Suppression Strategies

Fuels and Fire Behaviour

• Major fuels are grasses across all vegetation types. Woodlands are a minor fuel type.

• Fire threat is greatest after periods of heavy winter and spring rainfall, promoting growth of annual grasses. During these years grass fuel loads are elevated throughout the landscape, and pose a high fire danger when curing occurs over summer.

• If lightning strikes are associated with storms ahead of blustery cold fronts, prevailing winds are usually north-westerly before switching south-westerly as the front passes through.

Fire Thresholds • There is no known requirement for fire in any vegetation communities.

• Research is required on the effects of fire in different vegetation types, especially in influencing regeneration.

Fire Suppression • If the fire is small, direct attack with water and foam is the preferred tactic.

• Suppression of larger fires should be conducted by direct attack by cutting new control lines using a grader and linking with existing breaks.

• Be aware of southerly changes; the eastern flank of the fire is the preferred side for concentrating control efforts (to reduce chances of the fire escaping northwards if wind changes to the south.)

Back Burning • Backburning must be approved by the Incident Controller.

• Will be a useful tactic only if the fire is travelling slowly and wind direction is steady and predictable.

• If no NPWS personnel can be contacted, Brigades may backburn up to 100m width from control lines.

Fire Management Zones

Asset Protection Zone

The primary objective in APZs is the protection of human life and property. These zones are the most intensively managed fire management zones. APZs provide fuel-reduced areas around assets or groups of assets, which are adjacent to bushfire hazards.

Strategic Fire Advantage Zone

The objective of SFAZs is to assist in the strategic control and containment of bushfires. SFAZs act to reduce the probability of large landscape-scale bushfires by reducing fire intensity and spotting distance, and to strengthen existing fire control advantages.

Land Management Zone The primary objective within HMZs is to conserve biodiversity and protect of cultural heritage. Fire management is consistent with fire thresholds.

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Land Management Zone Aerial PhotographsLocal Government Areas Topo Map Edges

Background: LPI 2003 Aerial Photograph

Communications Information Service Channel Location and Comments Other Communications Information

NPWS Oolambeyan UHF 13 CDMA

NPWS UHF-CB 31 Car kit essential for coverage within park

RFS - Boyd Brigade PMR 44 MIA Zone UHF 11 MIA Zone RFS – Area E Brigade PMR 73 Hay Team UHF 6 Hay Team Satellite Phone

Rural Fire Service Airbands NPWS Airbands 0405 155 862 132.55 134.7 0405 155 892 132.75 122.85

128.7 125.45 Selcall Numbers

122.88 123.85 Oolambeyan NP Cat 9 (WR00) - 3431 119.1 124.05

Other Airband Frequencies

Griffith MBZ 126.55

Melbourne Centre 124.90

Automatic weather recording 132.95

Western Rivers Region

Oolambeyan National ParkFire Management Strategy

2006This strategy should be used in conjunction with field reconnaissance during incidents and the development of incident action plans.

This strategy is a relevant plan under Section 38(4) and 44(3) of the Rural Fires Act 1997

The plan's data is not guaranteed to be free from error or omission. The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and its employees disclaim liability for any act done on the information in the data

and any consequences of such acts or omissions. The document is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright

Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without writtem permission. The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service is part of the Department of Environment and Conservation.

Published by the Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW), April 2006

Contact: NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Rivers Region, P.O. Box 1049, Griffith NSW 2680. Phone 6966 8100

DEC2006/162 ISBN: 1 74137 891 5 Scales correct when printed on A1 page Last updated: 24 Aug 2006