PLANNING FOR SUPPRESSION REPAIR

1. PLANNING FOR SUPPRESSION REPAIR How to estimate the amount of Suppression Repair work and design your strategy to complete it.

2. 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

3. Arriving at the Incident…Get Briefing • Briefing Sources • Incident Commander • Plans Section Chief • Line officer (Unit Chief) • Unit Foresters

4. 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!

5. 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.

6. Size and Location

7. photo of dozer line

8. Political Issues(Listed Species, Anadromous Fisheries Watershed) • Northern Goshawk

9. Jurisdiction

10. Other considerations • past history of large fires • land ownership

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Your Suppression Repair Plan • Should incorporate the concerns of your stakeholders • Incident Commander • Line Officer • Public Information Officer (PIO) • County Leaders • Landowners • Interest Groups

15. 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

16. 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

17. Cal Fire / DFG • Joint Policy on Pre, During, and Post Fire Activities and Wildlife Habitat • adopted by Board of Forestry May 4, 1994

18. 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

19. California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) • Does CEQA apply? • Emergencies are exempt • When does an incident become a “project”?

20. 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

21. 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)

22. 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/

23. 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

24. 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

25. sample ICS-204 “Suppression Repair” a distinct group

26. sample ICS-204 Repair operations described

27. sample ICS-204 showing task force assignment

28. 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

29. 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