Here's a lead on Wildland firefighters... (I actually have considerable personal knowledge about this one)
News & Reports
"Wildlandfire.com Headlines Click the WLF News Search option for our News Page using Google News with several customized scripts and current event categories. Other options for breaking fire news are also available including the Hot List Forum and WildWeb Dispatch.
National Fire Situation Report
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The daily Situation report listing fire summary, large fires, and resources being used. This report is in html format (immediate loading). Click on the top archived NICC Incident Management Report.
This pdf version of the SIT report requires Adobe Acrobat and some time to load.
National GACC Website Portal Fire Intelligence by GACC: Situation Report & Morning News
Northern California - Sit - News
Southern California - Sit - News
Northwest - Sit - News
Alaska - Sit - News
Northern Rockies - Sit - News
Eastern Great Basin - Sit - News
Western Great Basin - Sit - News
Rocky Mountain - Sit - News
Southwest - Sit - News
Eastern - Sit - News
Southern - Sit - News
NIFC's Fire News National Interagency Fire Center's fire news - and Large Fire Map, during fire season only.
NPS Morning Report Daily reports from - the National Park Service.
USFS Morning Report Fire summary - during the season - updated each morning from U.S. Forest Service Fire & Aviation Management
Wildlandfire News & Fire Information This page provides links to our wildlandfire.com Hot List Forum of breaking fire news, the WildWeb Dispatch page, the Google wildland fire news search, fire maps and scanners, and more.
Practical: The Paperboy Comprehensive, searchable listing of around 5,000 newspapers worldwide, Internet news services, media resources, and online magazines. For digging deeper.
Weather
NICC: National Weather Service Quick links to all National Weather Service area forecasts. . .and much more.
CA Fire Weather North Zone &
CA Fire Weather South Zone Fire Weather Predictive Service Forecasts from CWCG
Northern Area (Redding) and Southern Area (Riverside).
NOAA Satellite Services A super site for checking fire locations and smoke patterns!
GOES 8 & 10 main page Western hemisphere satellite weather images main page. See also the link below.
GOES 8 Interactive To see animated smoke plumes of specific North American fires, click the link, set controls on Show an "Animation" and Quality: "100%". Then click the state or region you want to view close up. (Do not click the large blue "Animate image below" button.) It takes a few moments to load. There's also GOES West.
NASA GHCC NASA Global Hydrology & Climate Center (world wide satellite images).
RAWS (Interagency) Remote Automated Weather Stations.
ROMAN Real Time RAWS Info: Maps, weather summary, wind speeds, Rh, precip, etc.
National Fire Weather Page Red Flag Warnings and Fire Weather Watches
MesoWest Weather summaries from around the US. Click on a location and get current conditions. Choose a fire and get current conditions near that location. Useful easy-to-access site for basic current information.
Intellicast Main page for US and world weather forecasts, radar, & satellite images.
The Weather Channel More weather.
Lightning Explorer From Global Atmospherics, a nice site.
Accuweather.com Another good lightning site.
Fire Danger Map Fire danger from the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS).
Fire Potential Map Fire potential from the WFAS.
Drought Monitor Map Monitors drought. From the National Drought Mitigation Center.
Geographic
MS Terraserver Microsoft Terraserver page. View and print satellite images/topo maps of most US areas.
Current Earthquake Activity Seismicity maps of recent earthquake activity in the USA or around the world.
GEOMAC From the Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination Group. Click the GEOMAC button on the left to go to current wildland fire sit maps.
Detected Large Incidents Map From NIFC
Detected Hot Spot Map From NOAA
Maptech Mapserver Maptech free online mapper. Topo, nautical, aero charts, & navphotos. Printable. Sometimes slow.
MapQuest Online travel planner, address finder, route mapper. Printing options.
Google Maps Excellent new mapping utility and travel planner - versatile.
California Road Closure Site Enter the road number and see if it is closed to traffic due to wildfire or anything else.
Federal Pages
Find a USFS Employee Search for US Forest Service employees, find their email address, work location, and telephone numbers.
Find a DOI Employee Same as above, except ya can find Department of Interior/ BLM/ NPS employees, among others.
NWCG Sit / 209 NWCG sit report and 209, requires password to enter.
Type I IIM Teams (National) &
Type II IIM Teams (Regional) &
Area Command &
Fire Use Management Teams Find out where the Teams are fighting fire.
Links to National Type I Interagency Incident Management Teams and GACCs page.
Links to Type II Interagency Incident Management Teams page.
Links to Area Command website page.
Links to Fire Use Management Teams (FUMT) page.
Mobilization Info IIMT, Area Command and Buying Team rotation schedules, National Mobe Guide, Military Use Handbook, and lots of forms here from NICC.
ROSS For dispatchers with questions about the Resource Ordering and Status System.
USDA's Home Page US Department of Agriculture home page.
USDA Forest Service National Page Documents, mission statements, links, etc.
USFS National Alphabetical Links Basically a site map - easy to find info on the FS including links to forest locations, maps and phone numbers, publications, speeches, documents and congressional records, to name a few.
US Forest Service Fire & Aviation The main page of the largest wildland firefighting organization in the world.
FAM Links to People in Fire A page of links to hotshot info, helitack, handcrews, partners, smokejumpers.
USFS T & D Center Publications All the publications from the USFS Technology & Development Centers in Missoula and San Dimas. User name= t-d. Password= t-d. Check out new safety items, equipment and ongoing projects.
US DOI BLM Fire & Aviation US Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Fire & Aviation Page.
Alaska BLM Fire What's happening up North?
NM BLM Fire NM Fire site
US DOI NPS Fire Net US Department of Interior, National Park Service - Fire Net
BIA NIFC Fire Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fire and Aviation Management
FEPP Federal Excess Personal Property, a source for used firefighting equipment.
Practical: Find out how OWCP works. A message board where firefighters can ask questions about benefits and processes relating to Office of Workers Compensation Programs claims. KRS - a hotshot who was severely injured - is moderator.
Practical: Contact Your Congressional Representative From InfoSearch, simply click on the map and you're linked. Speak your mind. Email your views. Also for snail-mail addresses and phone numbers: US Senate Directory House of Representatives Directory
If you don't know who they are, go HERE, enter your zip code only and your reps in both houses will be selected.
Competitive Sourcing Resources All you ever wanted to know on the competitive outsourcing madness, including how to influence the outcome of legislation.
ICS Unit Identifiers for R5 Forests ICS unit identifiers for National Forests in CA and links to them (quick).
ICS Unit Identifiers for R3 ICS unit identifiers for all units in the Southwest Region (AZ, NM and West TX) (quick).
ICS Unit Identifiers ICS unit identifiers for ALL cooperators in the US in rich text format.
State Pages including State Wildland Fire Pages
Alaska Div of Forestry Alaska Division of Forestry with several nice fire pages.
Arizona State Land Arizona State Land Department.
Colorado State Forest Service Colorado FS and Fire.
California Dep't of Forestry All about the CDF FIRE. If you can't find it here, the Site Map for the easiest way to navigate.
Florida Div of Forestry Florida Fire and Forest Protection.
Georgia Forestry Commission Has fire danger ratings, current GA fire news releases and photo maps.
Hawaii Div of Forestry and Wildlife Fire Management in Hawaii.
ID Dep't of Lands Fire Page Idaho Department of Lands, Fire Management.
Iowa DNR Rural Fire Prevention and Protection
Indiana Dep't of Natural Resources Indiana Dep't of Natural Resources.
Michigan Natural Resources As stated.
Minnesota Dep't of NR From the land 'o lakes. Fire
Montana FAM Montana Fire & Aviation Management.
Nevada Division of Forestry Fire Info in NV.
North Carolina DOFR NC Division of Forest Resources with a link to NC Fire Weather/Fire Danger page.
Oklahoma Forestry Oklahoma fire info.
Oregon Department of Forestry Lot'sa good info here, this link will take you to their photo gallery.
PA Forestry & Fire Protection All about fire protection in Pennsylvania.
SC Forestry Commission South Carolina Forestry and Fire.
South Dakota State Forestry Nice site for Fire Info. (They're using one of our fire photos.)
Tennessee Forestry Fire Tennessee Fire Info from fire weather to daily fire report.
Texas Forest Service Fire Pertaining to . . . Texas Fire!
Utah Forestry Utah Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands.
Washington DNR Fire Washington Forest Fire Information. Also Prevention
Wisconsin Dep't of NR WI Dep't of Natural Resources.
Worldwide Wildland
FireGlobe Website of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), an Activity of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Many links, some nice photos.
FireBreak On bushfire with some nice photos of Aussie fires and some good links.
FireNet Another fire website with info on Australian bushfire.
New South Wales Fire Brigades What these Aussie firefighters do, photos, glossary of fire terms, etc.
NSW Rural Fire Service Info about New South Wales (AU) bushfire.
Australian National Parks & Wildlife Service Park closures and links to some fire news.
Country Fire Authority Victoria The Linton Inquiry involves the death of 5 firefighters in a vehicle burnover in Australia in December 1998.
Country Fire Service, South AU With info on Aussie homeowner protection, current fire bans, incidents and media releases.
New Zealand's Rural Fire Page As stated.
Forest Fire in Canada National fire site from the Canadian Forest Service, in English and French.
Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center Fire Intelligence British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec (in French) (in English)
New Brunswick
Canadian Sit Report Canadian Forest Service Fire Situation Report.
Practical: Online Conversion Converts measurements of all kinds from all over the world so you can understand what you're reading.
Aviation
Sunrise-Sunset Compute and print sunrise, sunset, & twilight charts for cities and airports worldwide in local time zone.
Airport Identification Find that elusive airport acronym by city, name, identifier, or browse by State.
NOTAM Check your submitted NOTAMs for accuracy.
Aviation Safety System Including links to Safecoms, Safety Alerts and Reports and the Aviation Mishap Information System, an electronic data (files) storage based system encompassing all aspects of aviation mishap reporting within the U.S. Forest Service.
Office of Aircraft Services Office of Aircraft Services, DOI.
Assn. AirTanker Pilots The Association of AirTanker Pilots and Aerial Support People
Miscellaneous Wildland Pages
CA Fire Links, 2004 Information on the California Fires, 2004.
FIRE Links, 2004
A list of all large and small wildland fires of 2004 that have websites with info, maps, photos, and press releases. Arranged by state and then chronologically.
Southern California FIRE Links, 2003 Information on the SoCal fires, Fall 2003.
FIRE Links, 2003
A list of all large and small wildland fires of 2003 that have websites with info, maps, photos, and press releases. Arranged by state and then chronologically.
FIRE Links, 2002 A list of all large and small wildland fires of 2002 that have websites with info, maps, photos, and press releases. Arranged by state and then chronologically.
California, Washington & Oregon FIRE Links, 2001 A list of FS FAM and CDF links to fires that burned in 2001. Photos and maps available at most incident sites. Great for research or browsing the past fire season.
Wildland Firefighter Foundation The Wildland Firefighter Foundation, a nonprofit organization, provides emergency financial assistance to the families of fallen firefighters, and helps support their young children. Families left behind often find themselves with few resources, and the Foundation steps in to help.
A Hotshot Photo Journal An ex-hotshot's photos.
Firegirl's Page A nice homepage featuring wildland firefighting. One of the originals on our links page.
Spotfire Images By Mike McMillan. A fine fire photojournal site.
National Agricultural Library This one is in an obscure place. Some cool historic photos here, but they are all in GIF format, so they are big. For some examples, see our Equipment 2 Photo Page.
IMWTK Inquiring Minds Want to Know firefighting history. If you have any additions, send 'em in. Ab.
Funny Fire Terms & Nicknames Terms we use and names we call ourselves and each other. All in good fun. Ab.
Quotes to Live By A few quotes that are thought provoking; some are serious and some are for fun. If you have any additions, send 'em in. Ab.
SCRATCHlines One Liners from wildland firefighters. Send us your own! Ab.
Just One More Time...
Memories of those who have seasons of firefighting under their belts and might be looking at retirement... Are you nearing retirement? Have any memorable moments to share?
I Remember How aspects of firefighting have changed... Send in any additions. Ab.
Wildland Firefighter Awards Who we honor.
Wildland Memorial Sites There are many memorials and at least one Monument to fallen wildland firefighters on forests and in parks around the West and across the US. Here's the beginning of our list.
Memorial to Paul Gleason Father of LCES.
Job Related Links
Interagency Hotshot Crew List Current listing of National Interagency Hotshot Crews with contact links.
California Interagency Hotshot Crews Historical and up-to-date info to California IHC websites. Recording the history.
Redding Smoke Jumpers Redding California Smokejumpers home page.
National Association of Smokejumpers Anything you want to know about Smokejumping.
Federal Office of Personnel To search for fire related positions use the 0462 (forestry) or 0455 (range) series.
USFS Fire Employment Forest Service specific fire employment with many "How To" and other links.
BLM Fire Employment Bureau of Land Management specific fire employment.
NPS Fire Employment Information on fire hiring for the National Park Service.
National Forests by Region You need to know the region or forest you are interested in, an excellent source of phone numbers.
Our WLF.com Jobs Page Updated at least twice a week, it contains links to OPM Series 462 and 455 listings.
Firefighter Wanta Be's Q&A Questions from those wanting to be wildland firefighters with answers from professional wildland firefighters on topics ranging from what is a redcard and how do I get one to how do I get the training, etc.
Training & Education
List of IFPM Web-based Courses and Universities offering them from U Idaho *For Fire Managers seeking to meet new professional requirements* Scroll down mid-page and click ON-LINE or click here for the ON-LINE Courses download (EXCEL Spreadsheet)
Wildland Fire Training Good training website. It has great links to training courses offered in different Geographic Areas, MATS, NWCG training, and other links.
Fire Leadership for the Professional For the Do It Yourselfer: Lots of good leadership stuff with enough leadership reading material to keep you occupied for a year or so. Maybe longer.
Safety Refresher Training Resources Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher (WFSTAR)
Wildland Firefighter Apprenticeship Program Wildland Firefighter Apprenticeship Program, under the auspices of R5 FAM, with the goal of making wildland firefighting your profession. Located at McClelland CA (Sacramento). Wildland firefighters, you must be hired to be sponsored for this program. Contact your forest or your local sponsoring agency. Ab note: College students who want to make wildland fire a career, ask about the STEP program.
Alaska Training Click Training in the header.
Colorado Wildfire Academy and
Great Plains Wildfire College Held annually in June (large academy) and January (smaller training group) respectively, both provide interagency training courses ranging from basic FF1 to advanced IMT training to more than 900 people annually.
CPS Information on the Campbell Prediction System and the course Wildland Fire Signature Prediction Method, a stand alone course, invaluable for those wanting to understand fire behavior.
Interagency Aviation Training Features fire aviation position descriptions and requirements; online modules (web-based training); instructor-led class schedule; registration for on-line and classroom training; commonly asked questions; news and events; IAT program information; and an outstanding fire aviation glossary. Full list of OAS Training.
National Advanced Fire & Resource Institute (NAFRI) A national level center for strategic planning, development, and implementation of fire, fuels, resource, and incident management skills and educational processes. Formerly NARTC.
National Fire Academy U.S. Fire Administration fire training academy.
NWCG Publications, including D-310-1 and the
310-1, new Links to the Wildland Fire Qualifications (D-310-1), Wildland Rx Fire Complexity Rating System Guide, NWCG National Fire Equipment System Catalog, ICS forms other NWCG docs (some in .pdf format). PMS 310-1, that provides national minimum requirements for wildland firefighting personnel.
FSH 5109.17 USFS Fire & Aviation Management Qualifications Handbook - primary position qualification requirements guide for Forest Service employees; supplements the NWCG Wildland and Prescribed Fire Qualification System Guide, PMS 310-1.
NWCG Taskbooks Task books for air operations, command and staff, expanded dispatch, finance, logistics, ops, planning, and prescribed fire.
NY Wildfire & Incident Mgt. Academy New York's interagency academy, offering courses meeting NWCG standards.
National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center The NIPFTC utilizes a program in which trainees complete parts of the NWCG approved prescribed fire task books under the guidance of fire training professionals. Located in Tallahassee FL.
Utah Wildfire Academy Training in Utah.
Southwest Fire Use Training Academy FUTA focuses on classroom training with an emphasis on prescribed burning in southwestern fuel types. Located in Albuquerque NM.
University of Montana Fire Training Joint training information effort from The University of Montana, the Southwest Montana Geographic Zone of the Northern Rockies Coordinating Group, and Global FIREnet.
CA Regional Occupational Programs (ROP) No cost, California Regional Occupational Training Programs (ROP) in Fire Science, FF1, S130, S190, First Responder, etc.
2- and 4-year Schools in Fire Science A page of links to 2 and 4-yr Junior Colleges, Colleges and Universities with fire science and fire ecology/forestry programs.
Wildfire Education Links for Teachers For school TEACHERS, a page of wildland links to materials including wildfire safety, fire ecology, stories, lesson plans, etc. Also links to info on creating defensible space - and educating the adult public.
Federal Employees Pages
The Federal Diary Keep abreast of what Washington is doing by reading Stephen Barr's column in the Washington Post.
FWFSA The Federal Wildland Fire Service Association. Go to their page, download the application form and join NOW! It's never too late to make a difference!
2004 Salaries & Wages Federal GS wage tables from OPM.
Federal Per Diem Rates Quick link to find nationwide travel and per diem rates.
National Finance Center The most important federal page in existence! You will need a PIN (personal identification number).
Federal Thrift Savings Plan Check your account balance and current rates of return on your retirement investment. PIN required.
Federal Office of Personnel
Management That would be the OPM page for short. Excellent site, easily navigable, tons of information.
Employee Express Federal workers can check/change tax deductions, payroll deductions, and much more from here.
FEDweek Electronic weekly newsletter for Federal Employees, free but heavy self-advertising.
Safety
Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center An Interagency Resource Center that focuses on Research and Analysis, Knowledge Management, and Information Transfer with the objectives of sharing knowledge to improve safety, performance, efficiency and organizational learning throughout the entire wildland fire community.
Fire Leadership Excellent collection of resources to develop leadership skills, thereby improving safety.
Six Minutes for Safety Federal Fire & Aviation Safety Team (FFAST) with NIFC present short safety review "lessons". One a day...
SAFENET Wildland Fire Safety & Health Network. The purpose of SAFENET is: (1) To provide reporting and documentation of unsafe situations or close calls. (2) To provide a means of sharing safety information throughout the fire community. (3) To provide long-term data that will result in identifying trends. Provide information online via the SAFENET site. If necessary, you may call. The phone number for providing a verbal safenet is 888.670.3938. You can leave a detailed message, which will be transcribed and posted to the Internet database.
10 & 18's 10 Standard Fire Orders & 18 Watchouts.
LCES Lookouts - Communications - Escape Routes - Safety Zones.
Interagency Resource Pocket Guide
(little yellow book all firefighters should carry with them) Including "How to Properly Refuse Risk", that is how to turn down an unsafe assignment, scroll down to doc p29 (pdf file) or if you have the book, it's on p 18.
Work Capacity Test or Pack Test Work Capacity Testing Information, including informed consent form, health screening questionnaire, and more.
Wildland FF Fatalities 1990-1998 Summarizes the causes of death for 133 persons who died while involved in fighting wildland fires in the US, analyzed by geographic area and by agency.
Firefighter Safety Awareness Study
Phase I Phase II Phase III A three part study to identify the organizational culture, leadership, human factors, and other issues impacting firefighter safety and to set and implement goals for improving safety. Phase III has problems if you try to open the whole large pdf file. Instead, open the document by chapters and you'll get it all. Interesting reading. Ab.
1995 Human Factors Workshop Findings from the 1995 Human Factors Workshop
2004 Human Factors Workshop On the IAWF website.
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