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Stonesifer, Calkin, Thompson, Stockmann
Large airtanker use is widespread in wildfire suppression in the United States. The current approach to nationally dispatching the fleet of federal contract airtankers relies on filling requests for airtankers to achieve suppression objectives…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Stonesifer, Calkin, Thompson, Kaiden
Wildland firefighting is an inherently dangerous activity, and aviation-related accidents in particular comprise a large share of firefighter fatalities. Due to limited understanding of operational factors that lead to aviation accidents, it is…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Darran
For this fire season and beyond, we need to resolve to change our air tanker policies.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Anzalone
The 2011 fire season in the Southwestern Region was extremely active. Several large 'mega-fires' received national media attention, including the Wallow Fire in northern Arizona and the Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico. Both of these fires were the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Jones
The objective sounds simple: build a tank system that can be installed in a military airplane to convert it quickly into a large airtanker for dropping fire retardant on wildfires. But anyone involved with the Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems (…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Hall, Hull, Johnson, McKinney, Scott
In response to the 2002 fire season's fatal aircraft accidents, the USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) jointly established an independent, five-member Blue Ribbon Commission (the panel - Appendix A) to identify essential…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Quintilio, Bisgrove, Van
This paper reviews the unique aerial ignition device developed originally in Australia and the chronological work in Canada that eventually produced the Aerial Ignition Device and the Helitorch. It is of interest to note that the project has gone…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Greulich, O'Regan
Fire managers face two interrelated problems in deciding the most efficient use of air tankers: where best to base them, and how best to reallocate them each day in anticipation of fire occurrence. A computerized model based on a mixed integer…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Wildland fires are a force of nature that can be nearly as impossible to prevent, and as difficult to control, as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods.
Wildland fire can be a friend and a foe. In the right place at the right time, wildland fire can…
Type: Website
The mission of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center is to promote learning in the wildland fire service by providing useful and relevant products and services that help to reveal the complexity and risk in the wildland fire environment. The…
Type: Website