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Topic: Burned area emergency response

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Aspen Fire BAER Home Arriving on the fire on June 28, a Burned Area Emergency Response Team evaluated the impacts of the Aspen Fire on the affected watersheds in the Santa Catalina Mountains. The assessment was divided into two parts: the area of the fire burned before July 3 and the area burned after that date. A large area of the Sabino Canyon watershed has been affected. www.volunteertaskforce.org /aspenbaer/index.htm

Ravalli Republic Online She said the Cooney Ridge team was established Sunday and is also assessing burned area emergency responses at the Fish Creek Complex and Black Mountain fires near Missoula. The same goes for the Cooney Ridge fire east of Florence and west of Clinton, where another burned area emergency response team is assessing the burn in the Schwartz, Gilbert and Eight Mile creek areas of that blaze and at three other fires in the Missoula area, said Lolo National Forest spokeswoman Sharon Sweeney. She said the team looking at the fire area expects to have a report ready by Sept. 22. www.ravallinews.com /articles/2003/09/12/news/znews03.txt

Precipitation Stations in the Missionary Ridge Burn Area, Southwestern Colorado             In July of 2002, the Burn Area Emergency Rehabilitation team and the La Plata County Office of Emergency Response recognized the potential for flooding and debris flows from the severely burned areas in the Missionary Ridge Complex fire. Precipitation Stations in the Missionary Ridge Burn Area, Southwestern Colorado In response to this concern, the U.S. Geological Survey installed and maintained an early warning system of 12 satellite-telemetered precipitation gages. firescience.cr.usgs.gov /html/grey_abs02.html

NPS Fire Management Program The Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) program addresses these situations with the goal of protecting life, property, water quality, and deteriorated ecosystems from further damage after the fire is out. In most cases, only a portion of the burned area is actually treated: severely burned areas, very steep slopes, places where water runoff will be excessive, fragile slopes above homes, businesses, municipal water supplies, and other valuable facilities. BAER does not seek to replace what is damaged by fire, but to reduce further damage due to the land being temporarily exposed in a fragile condition. www.nps.gov /fire/fire/fir_baer.html   (458 words)

ASTER Image Gallery: November 18 Grand Prix Fire, California The image is being processed by NASA’s Wildfire Response Team and will be sent to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) which provides interpretation services to Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams to assist in mapping the severity of the burned areas. On November 18, 2003, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite acquired this image of the Old Fire/Grand Prix fire east of Los Angeles. ASTER Image Gallery: November 18 Grand Prix Fire, California asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov /gallery-detail.asp?name=nov18fire   (458 words)

American Red Cross Fairness is supposed to be an American trait, but we have heard unfair and unjustified criticism of the American Red Cross for its disaster response in New Orleans, and throughout the areas devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The sight of American Red Cross emergency response vehicles (ERVs) delivering meals remains a familiar sight in hurricane-ravaged communities throughout the Gulf Coast region and the Thanksgiving day will be no different. The sights and smells of New Orleans after Katrina last September are forever burned into my memory, but they have been supplanted by festive crowds and parades for Mardi Gras. www.redcross.org /news   (7750 words)

Revegetation U.S. Forest Service - Burned Area Emergency Response Tall Timbers Research Station maintains a fire ecology database of journal articles, books, and conference proceedings is international in scope, although main focus is on southeastern U.S. Search by keyword using general forestry or fire-related terms, as well as by geographic area or habitat type. US Forest Service Fire Sciences Lab is home to the Fire Behavior Project, Fire Chemistry Project, and the Fire Effects Project. www.weedcenter.org /restoration/revegetation.htm   (1332 words)

SAF - Periodicals: Forestry Source - Researchers Join Forces to Accurately Assess Burn Severity The latest in a series of initiatives by the Rapid Response project, researchers from the university and the federal agencies are using satellite data on fires and fire damage to create burn severity maps for use by the Forest Service's Burned-Area Emergency Rehabilitation teams. Researchers believe that these burn severity maps, which can be created much faster, cover more area, and be more consistent than the current manually developed assessments, will enable BAER teams determine which fire-damaged lands need immediate attention to prevent erosion, soil loss, and adverse impacts to water quality. Sohlberg says that this information, coupled with satellite data, GPS data, pre-fire site information, and fire characteristics, can then be used to create "burn severity algorithms" that will serve as the foundation of computer models currently being developed to accurately assess burn severity. www.safnet.org /archive/1002_burn.cfm?printPage=1&   (1332 words)

www.AFDANews.org - Arizona Fire District Association The fire has been “downgraded” to a Type 3 incident that is commanded by the Coronado National Forest, Santa Catalina Ranger District and the Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team. For example, the Golder Ranch Fire District was inundated with calls from concerned residents in Catalina and Saddlebrooke as the fire progressed down the western edge of the Santa Catalina’s. The topography of the Santa Catalina Mountains challenged the suppression efforts as commanders delicately balanced the placement of hand crews with personnel safety. www.afdanews.org /newsletter_special_story.html   (1332 words)

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