Texas wildfires and dispatch assignments. Use of National Guard resources on fires.

1. 2011 FIRE SEASON FLORIDA TEXAS GEORGIA

2. INITIAL ATTACK DISPATCH AIRCRAFT DISPATCH SUPERVISORY DISPATCH INCIDENTS PHOTOS MILITARY (GUARD) RESPONSE TO FIRES. SOUTHERN AREA COORDINATION CENTER 2011 FIRE SEASON

4. INITIAL ATTACK THE PROMPT DISPATCH OF RESOURCES TO AN INCIDENT AND ASSUMING INCIDENT COMMAND TILL PROPER COMMAND IS ESTABLISHED AT INCIDENT. THEN SUPPORT INCIDENT . FIRST 24 HOURS OF AN INCIDENT.

5. RADIO COMMUNICATIONS ,PHONES ,FLIGHT FOLLOWING PLACING OF RESOURCE ORDERS,SUPPLIES ,FOOD, WEATHER AND SPOT FORECASTS. INITIAL ATTACK DISPATCHER

6. Texas Forest Service office. Fire very close to the office. FIRE CAN BE MILES AWAY OR JUST OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW

7. AIRCRAFT DISPATCH THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT ASSIGNED TO AN INCIDENT. THE PROCURMENT OF ADITIONAL RESOURCES. THE SELECTION OF APROPIATE RESOURCES FOR THE MISSION.

8. FLIGHT FOLLOW AIR RESOURCES TALK TO FIX WING AND ROTOR ACCETS COORDINATION WITH Heli base managers, SEAT Managers , Air tanker base managers. Coordinate with the incident Air Operations Branch Director for the Incident Management Teams. AIRCRAFT DISPATCHER

9. This airtanker is currently in use in Texas. T-910 CD-10 Air Tanker

10. SUPERVISORY DISPATCH THE MANAGEMENT OF AN EXPANDED DISPATCH OPERATION IN SUPPORT OF AN INCIDENT OR VARIOUS INCIDENTS INCLUDING INCIDENTS WHERE A INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM AS BEEN ASSIGNED.

11. Multiple dispatchers including Expanded Dispatch Recorders , Expanded dispatch, support dispatchers and the Supervisory dispatcher man the expanded dispatch area. Texas Interagency Coordination Center

12. Resource orders are processed for each incident ,demobe coordination can also occur in expanded. Expanded can be set up per incident or per functional area, overhead, equipment, crews ,supplies. Expanded dispatch

13. INCIDENT PHOTOS

14. Firefighter doing a back burn. Fight Fire with Fire

15. Heavy Air tankers drop 3,00 gallons of retardant. Heavy Air tanker doing a drop on the fire.

16. Fires can be on the ground creping and smoldering or they might climb and crown . Roads can be used as fire lines.

17. Bear Creek fire burned 41,000 acres. Fire can be miles long

18. Wild land fires do not only impact grass, brush, trees and wildlife. They also impact homes, barns, businesses and infrastructure. House on fire

19. Wild land Fire Engines are specifically designed to work on rugged terrains. Wild land Fire Engine

20. SEATS CAN DO 400 TO 800 GALLONS OF RETARDANT. SEAT DROPPING RETARDANT

21. HELICOPTERS ARE USED MOSTLY TO DROP WATER ON THE FIRES HOT SPOTS . TYPE 1 HELITANKER

22. Water scoopers .They can do 1,600 gallons of water per drop. They need a water source at least a mile long. CL-215

23. Road is being used as fire break and staging area Sky crane doing water drops.

24. Lok closer to attachment in the back of the dozer. The attachment makes it a Tractor Plow. TFS Dozer knocking down a burned tree.

25. MILITARY RESPONSE TO INCIDENTS NATIONAL GUARD ARMY AND AIR FORCE

26. 111th Engineer Battalion TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD

27. DOZER TEAM TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD

28. DOZER AND GUARDSMAN WEARING PROPPER PPE TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD

29. DOZERS ARE USED TO BUILD CONTAINMENT LINES AROUND FIRES. TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD

30. Lines are created as firebreaks Dozer line

32. DOZERS ARE VERY EFFECTIVE IN FLAT TERRAIN TO CONTAIN FIRES. CONTAINMENT LINES

35. Bucket work

36. UH-60 fighting fire with bucket. Texas air National Guard

37. Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System

38. Lead Plane in front of a MAFFS leading it into a drop. MAFFS

39. Southern Area Coordination Center Atlanta , Georgia.

41. Coordination for all the region resources and with National Coordination Center Regional Dispatch Office