Wednesday, April 27, 2022

fire weather classifications in usa

class 1 to 5 ... low to extreme

natl wx radio ... fire weather watch and then red flag alert

fema daily ops brief uses nws storm prediction center maps that show
... elevated + extreme + critical + isolated dry thunderstorms +
scattered dry thunderstorms

wildfire agencies use burn index and haines index and staffing level
and preparedness level and dispatch levels and response levels etc

federal agencies use ' presuppresion funding" and "severity funding"
... I think that severity funding usually involves moving 'out of
area' resources into the targeted area ... and maybe some extra
aircraft ... but most of the initial attack forces are still funded
from the presuppresion budgets ... this is all 'bean counter' talk
... structural FDs dont really have anything like this even for usar
or wmd

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