Siskiyou County Interagency Wildland Fire Drill (COS) in Weed

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Siskiyou County Interagency Wildland Fire Drill (COS) in Weed

Siskiyou County Interagency Wildland Fire Drill

2008 Telegraph Fire

Firefighters from numerous Siskiyou County firefighting agencies will participate in a two day exercise designed to promote interagency coordination on Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22, 2014.

Most years wildfires occur in Siskiyou County. Because fires don’t recognize land or agency boundaries it is crucial that responders from all agencies work together taking an “all lands” approach to battle wildfires. As the past several years have proven, this training event is critical to getting all responders together to train as one unit so they are better equipped to fight fires as a team.

The training event, located at the College of the Siskiyou’s (COS) in Weed, is divided into six different venues where interagency strike teams utilize fire equipment. The evolutions will consist of Fire Shelter Use and Vehicle Safety Inspections, Establishing a Water Supply, Progressive Hose Lays, Constructing Hand Line, Dozer Safety and Wildland Urban Interface Tactics.

For this training lights and sirens will not be used. If you see emergency equipment traveling with their lights and sirens on, it is a true emergency and not part of the Eric Hall Memorial Interagency Drill. During the drill firefighters and fire equipment will be out on the roadways working so please be cautious.

The event begins with a morning briefing that will be held at COS at 7:00 A.M. and ends with an evening briefing at 5:00 P.M. Members of the public are encouraged to stop by. There will be an Information Officer available to answer questions from the media or residents.

Basic Information

Current as of	6/20/2014 10:42:33 AM
Incident Type	Wildfire
Cause	Training Exercice
Date of Origin	Saturday June 21st, 2014 approx. 07:00 AM
Location	College of the Siskiyou's
Incident Commander	Bravo And Guzman
Incident Description	Fire Refresher Training

Current Situation

Total Personnel	100
Percent of Perimeter Contained	100%
Estimated Containment Date	Sunday June 22nd, 2014 approx. 04:00 PM
Fuels Involved	Timber/Timber Understory
Significant Events	Conduct Training Exercises

Outlook

Planned Actions	Conduct all exercices for maximum learning potenial.
Projected Incident Activity	12 hour: 24 hour: 48 hour: 72 hour:

Current Weather

Weather Concerns	High Temps

Klamath National Forest
U.S. Forest Service
1711 S. Main Street
Yreka, CA 96097

Photo Credit: Firewise Madera County
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Saturday, June 21, 2014