PLANNING FOR SUPPRESSION REPAIR

How to estimate the amount of Suppression Repair work and design your strategy to complete it.

Planning Suppression Repair - Unit Outline Get Briefing

IC and Unit contact Needs Assessment Collect field information Coordinate with other Players Use of Specialists The FLSR Plan Organizational Structure

Arriving at the Incident… Get Briefing Briefing Sources

Incident Commander Plans Section Chief Line officer (Unit Chief) Unit Foresters

Who is Responsible (for suppression repair)? IC Plans Section Chief Operations Section Chief Situation Unit Leader Fire Line Suppression Repair

(FLSR) Group Supervisor / FLSR Tech Spec (you)

Remember! You work for PLANS!

Needs Assessment Phase size and location of incident sensitive resources (DG-soils,

archaeology, domestic water, anadromous fish)

political issues (ESA)

jurisdiction (state, federal, parks, Tahoe Basin)

Get the “message” out early to communicate basics: Report information back to FSR; trash; road care; waterbars and berms.

Size and Location

photo of dozer line

Political Issues(Listed Species, Anadromous Fisheries Watershed)

Northern Goshawk

Jurisdiction

Other considerations

past history of large fires land ownership

Collect field information

Observations from the field Prepare a fix-it list

Organize by Division Estimate time Resource needs

Note any “special needs” or priorities Specialist Political Timing

Sources of information Field Observers / Situation Unit Line Personnel

Division Supervisors Strike team leaders Dozer operators Safety Officers

Landowners Local Unit personnel Damage Assessment Staff / Comp

Claims BAER Team

Coordination with Other Players

Ongoing incident operations take priority

Suppression repair operations must not interfere

Start with secondary fire lines Work when mop-up is completed

Your Suppression Repair Plan Should incorporate the concerns of

your stakeholders Incident Commander Line Officer Public Information Officer (PIO) County Leaders Landowners Interest Groups

Use of Specialists

May be part of your FLSR Team May be available for Plan review May develop portions of FLSR plan May be on-call

Sources of Specialists

Local foresters / Unit Forester Cal Fire archaeologist, biologist Natural Resource Conservation Service

(NRCS) soil scientist range conservationist

Fish and Game University / Farm Advisor County Public Works BAER Team

Cal Fire / DFG

Joint Policy on Pre, During, and Post Fire Activities and Wildlife Habitat

adopted by Board of Forestry May 4, 1994

Cal Fire /DFG Joint Policy Established 1994 DFG review of impacts to wildlife

from suppression and fire DFG personnel assigned as

technical specialists DFG fire training Ordering DFG personnel

California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Does CEQA apply? Emergencies are exempt When does an incident become a

“project”?

What is a Project ?

The whole of an action which has a potential to result in a

physical change in the environment

undertaken by any public agency

Exempt from CEQA

emergency projects, repair and maintenance, minor alterations, actions taken to protect the environment.

Exceptions to Exemptions sensitive environments, significant

effect (listed species, erosive DG soils, experts disagree)

The Suppression Repair Plan

Each Plan will contain the following 1. General Repair Policy 2. Range of Activities 3. Standards of Practice 4. Staffing and Responsibilities

(organizational structure) 5. Cooperators / Contributors 6. Signatures: IC, PSC, Unit Chief, preparer

Don’t let this delay getting a “basic” plan in the IAP

See examples @ ftp://frap.cdf.ca.gov/pub/incoming/fire_repair/

Organizational Structure for Suppression Repair (options) Repair Group can have incident-

wide responsibility Can break Repair Grp. Into

Divisions, Task Force, etc Have a “Repair Ops”

Division Sup can have division responsibility

Task Force Leader can have project responsibility

Assignments for Suppression Repair in the IAP Documentation on a ICS-204

Familiar Format for line personnel

Justification for Finance (use of 00900)

Documentation for FEMA Supports decisions not to

provide repairs Documentation of accidents

sample ICS-204 “Suppression Repair” a distinct group

sample ICS-204 Repair operations described

sample ICS-204 showing task force assignment

Meeting the Need for Suppression Repair Complexity of the FLSR Plan

reflects the scope of the incident Level of coordination with other

stakeholders reflects the resources at risk and political environment

Organizational structure represents the complexity of the incident

Summary

Get Briefing Never too early to get FSR message out Needs Assessment Collect field information Coordinate with other Players Use of Specialists The FLSR Plan Organizational Structure