WILDFIRE HAZARD REDUCTION

WILDFIRE HAZARD REDUCTION-BURN PLAN

Provide copies and discuss the “Open Burning Policy” of the health department in the county(s) in which your Tree Farms are located. Include,

	1. Areas where open burning is prohibited by ordinance.
	2. State Air Quality Regulations.
	3. Burning permit requirements and procedures to obtain a permit.

Discuss how to,

	1. Contact local fire departments, the county fire suppression organization, and fire weather information sources.
	2. Construct slash piles for burning.
	3. Burning slash piles.

Ignition methods
Test piles
Chunking in partly burned piles.
Mop up or making sure piles are dead out.

FIRE CONTROL-SUPPRESSION AND REPORTING

Provide telephone numbers of local fire suppression agencies and departments. Also any other means of contacting these individuals for both training and reporting.

Encourage participation in local volunteer fire departments.

Do not try to give a complete course on wildland fire suppression. Give the basics of how fires burn and of fire organization. Relate instruction to slash treatment by fire. What can the Tree Farmer do to insure that prescribed fires do not get away? How can he cool down a potential escape fire?

Provide a guideline for reporting wildfires or slash fires “of concern”. What information should the Tree Farmer provide to the fire dispatcher (or local department)?

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