FIRE BEHAVIOR WORKSHOP

National Interagency Fire Behavior Workshop
March 01 - 05, 1999
Phoenix, Arizona
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What does fire behavior mean to you? What do you know about fire behavior? What's fire behavior got to do with safety on and management of a wildfire? Or prescribed fire?

This 5-day workshop in Phoenix is designed for anyone who deals with fire behavior -- not just FBAs, but anyone who deals with fire behavior. This is an opportunity for firefighters and fire managers to get together and share information and experiences and fire behavior knowledge and skill related to prescribed fire and wildland fire.

Whether you are a member of an incident management team or a fire weather meteorologist or a fire manager or a fire researcher or just an interested member of the wildland fire community, this conference is for you. Part of the purpose of this conference is to generate feedback for national fire behavior steering committees and fire behavior researchers, so we want your input and participation.

TOPICS:

• Study tour:
  in-depth tour of the Dude Fire site.
• Future of the fire behavior practitioner:
  commitment, fire use, risk assessment, decision support
• Incident and Fire Use Management Teams:
  interdisciplinary needs, interaction within, service provided
• Keeping current in fire behavior:
  certify, re-certify, refresh
• Fire behavior prediction models:
  surface, transition, crown - hazard and potential
• Long-term fire risk assessments:
  what's out there, how to put it to use
• Products of the FBAN/RXFA:
  forecasts, accuracy, expectations, consistency, target functions
• Technology transfer:
  what's working, what's not, what's coming
• Fire behavior service centers:
  content, consistency, guidelines
• Canadian fire behavior and fire danger rating system:
  what it is, what you should know
• Information sharing:
  "There I was ..." case studies, lessons learned
• Fire behavior related issues:
  address, discuss, recommend, and feedback

This study/tour is planned for the fourth day (Thursday) of the conference. Details will be distributed later, but papers and presentations are currently being considered. If you're interested in submitting an abstract, please contact Bill Wallis, Technical Program Co-Chair, at (303)239-3607 or email him at bwallis/[email protected] before December 7, 1998. Authors of papers accepted for oral presentation will receive instructions for presentation of both written and oral versions.

Posters, displays, and equipment demonstrations are under consideration. If you're interested in submitting an abstract for any of these, please contact Caroline Lansing, Posters and Displays Co-Chair, at (406)888-7811 or email her at [email protected] before January 11, 1999.

Space will be available for commercial vendor displays and equipment demonstrations, including hardware, software, and materials. Posters, displays, and equipment demonstrations relating to fire behavior will be presented mid-week. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, initially available at the beginning of the conference, and later available online on a website. The organizing committee should receive full versions of papers by February 1. After that deadline, presenters may bring a predetermined number of hard copies of presentations to the conference for distribution.

The conference will be held at the Grace Inn - Ahwatukee, about ten minutes from Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport. A complimentary airport shuttle is available; the Grace Inn is in the Ahwatukee Foothills, an upscale Phoenix community. More than 100 rooms are blocked at the Grace Inn - Ahwatukee for participants and guests of the National Interagency Fire Behavior Workshop. For reservations, call (800)843-6010 or (in the Phoenix area) (602)893-0464. Overflow lodging will be available at nearby facilities, and the Grace Inn will provide inquiries. Contact Wayne Cook, Conference Co-Chair, at (406)329-4824 (or email him at wcook/[email protected]).

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