Firefighting Strategies for the Wildland/Urban Interface

More and more homes are being built in wildland areas. The wildland/urban interface presents increased risk to property loss and loss of life from wildfires. It also brings complexity around firefighting tactics, incident command, communication between responding agencies, and structural protection strategies.
Wildland/urban interface fires demand a strategy that is different from structural firefighting. Wildland fire behavior, wind conditions, fuel sources, and structure triage are some of the considerations in wildland firefighting. Learn how to prioritize protecting lives, protecting properties, and conserving resources for fighting the fire, and whether the fire event needs to be controlled with either an offensive or defensive approach.
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[@rfrakctured]

Bro, that outro music was actually fire. 💯👀

[@ebutuoyssa]

I would like to include this as a mandatory in my 130/190 training sessions. Definitely put together by folks who have actually been there. Many of you are familiar faces and Agencies. This is the premier presentation- that should be viewed by all FFT1(T) and similar structural personnel.

[@davidcaballero8258]

Excellent documentary! Just a comment on priorities: after nº one 'protect lives of civilians and firefighters' we're instead considering nº two 'identify and control those episodes that could eventually lead to a worse scenario' such as domino events (PLG/BLEVE, gas stations, industrial or other potentially dangerous situations etc.); after that we're considering nº three 'protect infrastructures and installations that could eventually derive in worsening emergency management environment' such as cutoff electric fluid, communications, water supply, road network, etc. Then after that, nº four consider protecting those infrastructures and installations entailing a potential significant impact on services to population. And only then consider protecting houses. As you well say, do not just arrive and jump to the fire, but analyze driving factors and immediate potential risks and draw a good action plan. Thanks for sharing! PS: my profile pic is taken in Lake Tahoe WUI fire!

[@watchthe1369]

If firecrews show up around your house, turn on the sprinklers and leave. You should already have blown the leaves away from the yard and foundation. Fire season is obvious and announced, if you do not do the work to maintain your property, mother nature is going to take it away. keep the brush cut way back and low. Make sure your wooden decks do not have debris under them and that any fuel like leaves or a propane tank are away from the house.

[@watchthe1369]

Plug in all your sprinklers and hoses, turn them on. The firefighters will use that to find water sources, if you have done the other stuff, what fuel remains is going to be wet, the fire will go around your house, and the firemen might even think of your property as a safe zone. You do not get a better chance at your house surviving than that, if you do not put in a little regular work, you avoid a lot of the hazards. A wet yard takes care of the embers.

[@thomthumbe]

This is great info and perspective! Thanks!

[@Swab209]

This is a great Video. Waiting for a stike team this year and this helped refresh me. Thankyou

[@jjj11330]

Excellent presentation!

[@volunteerWF]

Congratulations, good job ... really good job

[@ferrarasalvatore2]

Congratulations for the work that you do, by the team forest fire protection of Sicily our video is entitled (Forestry Sicily team forest fire protection = Forestale Sicilia squadra antincendio boschivo)

[@WildfireEngineer]

Good presentation

[@rabieahmedalirabieahmedali6339]

شرح رائع

[@alan6832]

Sounds like self driving robot water cannon trucks might be quite useful, which could both take more risks than humans while defending homes but also be made more fire resistant.

[@NVTrucker]

I really have no sympathy for anyone that builds a home in a potential wildfire area and then bitches to their congressperson that it burned down. I saw this similar thing in Las Vegas when they started building homes in the vicinity of North Las Vegas airport and then wanted the airport shut down because of the noise. Ludicrous. Where has common sense gone?

[@hollywood5703]

no video

[@alan6832]

why even try to contain fires in wildland? often with no roads for truck access? when doing so just means more fuel next year anyway? Why not instead devote all resources to structure protection where nearly all structures are near roads or driveways accessible by trucks, which are vastly more plentiful than aircraft, or at least should be; and vastly more powerful than crews on foot.

[@timengland2475]

what a bunch of crap! Pure politics.

[@watchthe1369]

Nope it is not,. It is expending lives so special children who want to live in the woods and suburbs without doing the work to deserve their niche. Keep the low brush away from the foundation, break fuel paths from the forest to your house, and keep the pine needles off the roof, or you do not deserve to live there.

[@mikel9567]

How is it crap? In my State the DNR is very active with telling homeowners how to protect their homes and clear vegitation. If these homeowners choose to ignore that advice then they don't have any room to whine when a wildfire goes through and destroys their home. Common sense should tell you that if you have duff around your house or on it and a bunch of flammable debris then your risk is high.