McCall Smokejumpers Work Assignments
Work assignments may include brush piling, prescribed burning projects, fuels management, pre-attack planning, timber stand improvement, construction and maintenance of facilities, or trail maintenance. Professional conduct on these projects is evaluated, along with performance on fire related activities.As the fire season increases in intensity, a crew of appropriate size is held at the jump…
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McCall Smokejumpers
The McCall Smokejumpers provide a very diverse skill-set that can be utilized in the management and suppression of wildfires, prescribed fire planning and implementation, and a vast array of land management techniques.The McCall Smokejumper Base is located in McCall, Idaho on the shores of Payette Lake in the West Central portion of the state. The base is directly adjacent to six National Forests…
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Aerial Firefighting Use and Effectiveness (AFUE) Contacts
Mike Peitz, Aviation Strategic Plans Branch Chief & AFUE Study Sponsor208-576-1351 Ryan Becker, Mechanical Engineer & AFUE Ground Data Collection Coordinator, National Technology and Development Program626-256-6782 Keith Stockmann, Economist & Lead AFUE Analyst, National Technology and Development Program406-829-6786 Chris Bolz, Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5)…
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Aerial Firefighting Use and Effectiveness (AFUE) Process
The AFUE study employs a three-pronged approach to data collection. At the national and seasonal scale, existing databases containing aviation operations and use records are used to compile overall use trends.AFUE employs four data collection modules consisting of three firefighters each, all of whom are operationally qualified and self-sufficient. The modules are made up of firefighters…
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Aerial Firefighting Use and Effectiveness (AFUE) Background
In the 1980s, the U.S. Forest Service, in cooperation with the California Department of Forestry (CDF) conducted the Operational Retardant Effectiveness Study (ORE). Since then, various external reviews of the U.S. Forest Service aviation program, and large airtankers in particular, have highlighted a lack of use and performance information to justify the size, scope and cost of both the…
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Mann Gulch
What we see before us is nature's progress over the past 42 years in healing a 5,000 acre wildfire. In the Forest's, surrounding Helena, 5,000 acre wildfires are not terribly uncommon. We have experienced a number of much larger fires just in the past decade. However, this particular fire, one that was ignited by a lightning storm on August 4, 1949, left scars that will last a lifetime. It…