SectorsIntervention_ForestFires2

Claude REY

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The Currents Means for Fight Forest Fires

The Context

                                          Fonctions                                 Role                                            Actions

Commander         - Protection:                            - Fight against fire          - Tactical choices accordingt to
of Operations         persons                                                                             the first means of fight
                                   dwellings                                                                        - Evaluation of fire by anticipation
                                   goods                                                                                 for the following hour

Pilots                      - Application fire                    - Attack of fire                   - They don't intervene to avoid
                                   retardant for creation           by aerial ways                  to destroy
                                   of defensive barriers                                                    - They wait the exit of fire
                                                                                                                                outside the urban zone

Firemen                 - Protection:                            - Attack of fire                   - Tactical choices according to
                                   persons                                  by terrestrial ways           the first means of fight
                                   dwellings
                                   goods

Fire                         - Free from its actions          - More it advances,          - It burns everything
                                - It intensifies itself                  more the fire-front            on its way
                                                                                    widens

During this time

                                Immobilisations                                        Ressources

Losses                   - Time                                                          - Economic substances
                                 - Money                                                          (Forest: fauna, flora)

Delays                    - Aerial means are inoperative                - They are misused
                                 - Displacement of inhabitants
                                 - Reorganization of the set-up
                                   and the staff
                                 - Fight against fire

Waste                     - Physical energies                                  - Kerosene
                                 - Material energies                                   - For�t
                                                                                                      - Fire retardant

- The terrestrial means are positioned and requisitioned
   in order to protect the dwellings facing the fire-front
- The aerial means, being unable to intervene in an
   urban zone, proceed to a safety flight and, thus, they
   are inoperative
- The fire, free from its actions, progresses in all the
directions and it intensifies itself