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Wildland-urban interface emergency responses: What influences them?
| Author: |
Cortner, H.J., R.M. Swinford, and M.R. Williams |
| Date: |
1990 |
| Periodical: |
Fire Management Notes |
| Abstract: |
Land management agencies in Arizona are actively working with communities and homeowners to implement treatments on public lands and provide assistance to private landowners. After the severe 1996 fire season, more people than ever want to do more on their private land and help design projects on public land to make their property safer. The Arizona national forests will continue as willing partners to keep wildland-urban interface forests safer for people and in a more natural condition. The unnaturally dense forest conditions found on 237,000 priority 1 urban-interface acres of national forest took several decades to develop. It will take a long time and a lot of money to accomplish the initial work needed. It will also take regular maintenance treatments to reduce the continual buildup of vegetation that occurs naturally beyond their traditional wildland firefighting role? These concerns, highlighted by the serious interface fire events of recent years, led the Forest Service to undertake a policy analysis examining these issues. The study examined agency policy and the actions forests have taken or anticipate will be taken, to respond, equip, and train in the areas of structural fire, search and rescue, emergency medical assistance, and hazardous materials. |
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