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Wildland Fire Operations Research Group

Wildland Fire Operations Research Group. Ray Ault FERIC Western Division. Presentation outline. Why the fire group exists Who funds the group How projects are chosen How we deliver results Example of past projects. Need for fire operations research. Program areas. Debris management

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Wildland Fire Operations Research Group

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  1. Wildland Fire Operations Research Group Ray Ault FERIC Western Division

  2. Presentation outline • Why the fire group exists • Who funds the group • How projects are chosen • How we deliver results • Example of past projects

  3. Need for fire operations research

  4. Program areas • Debris management • Community protection • Firefighter safety • Aviation • Linear developments • Equipment design and evaluation • Fire detection • Railroads

  5. Where we work

  6. Funding -Government members • Alberta Sustainable Resource Development • Saskatchewan • Government of NWT • BC Forest Protection Branch • Yukon Government • Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources • Parks Canada

  7. Allied Industries-Linear development • Atco Electric • CN Rail • Fortis Alberta • BC Transmission

  8. Allied Industries - Aviation • Fire-Trol Canada • Astaris Canada • Conair Aviation Ltd. • F. I. Flying Tankers • RBH Pacific • Canadian Aircrane

  9. Allied Industries - General • Mercedes Textiles • Wildfire Equipment • Syncrude, Suncor, CNRL • Saskatchewan Forest Centre • Vanderwell Contractors (1997)Ltd • Millar Western Forest Products • West Fraser Forest Products • Alberta Pacific Forest Industries Inc. • Vanguard Plastics

  10. Advisory Committee

  11. Sources of funding – Wildland Fire Group 2006 budget $1mil

  12. How projects are chosen • Projects proposed by advisory members • Advisory meets twice yearly • Fall meeting to vote on projects priorities and set work program • Each funding member has a vote

  13. How we deliver results

  14. Advantage reports

  15. Research and technology transfer http://fire.feric.ca

  16. Log Deck Protection Workshop

  17. Wildland Fire Group Personnelmissing Dave Patterson / Sharad Karmacharya

  18. Examples of projects

  19. Aviation gel drop evaluations

  20. Fire fighter safetyhead protection

  21. Fire fighter safetyU of A Mechanical Engineering

  22. Saskatchewan Community Assessment Project Types: • Primary • Secondary • Tertiary

  23. Linear Developments Planning

  24. Linear Disturbancespecies selection with ARC

  25. Equipment evaluationall terrain vehicle caused fire

  26. Equipment evaluations infrared scanning evaluations Operations

  27. Aerial ignition DeviceTechnology development University of Saskatchewan

  28. Smoke detection

  29. Summary • All projects support fire operations • Wide range of outside partners. • Bring people together to apply innovations and better methods. • Often our work is not research but bring together the producer and user to the benefit of both.

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