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connec t ion OK-FIRE’s Widespread Impact ongoing drought and lack of soil moisture. James said he uses the 84-hour Fire Weather Forecast daily to help with his job. “Mainly I use OK-FIRE to help develop staffing levels for daily and weekend fire duty,” James said. “We are just now getting into the prescribed burn game so it will also be utilized heavily when trying to schedule burns to meet both objectives and prescriptions.” Another OK-FIRE user, Bob Hamilton, Director of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, uses it often during the prescribed fire season, mainly in spring, but also in the summer and fall. “The OK-FIRE site is great for me because it is one stop shopping,” said Hamilton. “Now everything is under the OK-FIRE umbrella, and it is easier to get to and more efficient.” Hamilton uses basic forecast information, OK-FIRE products broken down graphically, and hour-by-hour fuel conditions to get an idea of fire conditions. After a fire, he reviews what actually happened and conditions during that time frame, and prints the Mesonet and OK-FIRE data to file for that specific event. “We also monitor during the fire with our mobile devices,” Hamilton said. “The accessibility is really cool, and the forecasts and fire ecology tools are really good things.” Volume 4 — Issue 2 — February 2013 www.mesonet.org THE MESONET’S OK-FIRE PROGRAM has a wide reach across the state, impacting decisions made by a wide range of users from your local firefighters to state foresters. The tools provided by OK-FIRE help prepare them for prescribed burning and wildland fire situations. “I use weather forecasts to predict fire behavior,” said Jay Willis, Battalion Chief for the Stillwater Fire Department. “On any day that we could be involved with wildland fires, I print off a copy of the weather forecast to take with me. As a fire department, we are not normally involved with prescribed burns. We do, however recommend against it when conditions are not right.” Willis said the tools he uses most are wind speed and direction, relative humidity, ignition component and other fire behavior indexes, and temperature. These help him make decisions when it comes to incidents like the Glencoe fire in August 2012. “Several residences and outbuildings were lost, along with crops, fencing, equipment and natural resources,” Willis said. “Hopefully we get ground cover back before the next large rain, or the damage will continue.” Andy James, Southeast Area Forester for the Oklahoma Forestry Services, has witnessed similar damages. From hundreds of homes lost to thousands of acres of timber, he attributes the devastation in part to the –by Stephanie Bowen
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Okla State Agency |
Climatological Survey, Oklahoma |
Okla Agency Code | 'CLI' |
Title | Mesonet connection, 02/2013, v.4 no.2 |
Authors |
Oklahoma Climatological Survey. |
Publication Date | 2013-02 |
Publication type | Newsletter |
Purpose | OK-FIRE's Widespread Impact by Stephanie Bowen; Relative Humidity and Wind Map; Burning Index Map; Burning Index Forecast Chart; OK-FIRE Experiences Growth by Stephanie Bowen; January Defies Dry Trend by Gary McManus |
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C2800.6 M582c |
Digital Format | PDF, Adobe Reader required |
ODL electronic copy | Downloaded from agency website: http://www.mesonet.org/mesonet_connection/v4i2.pdf |
Rights and Permissions | This Oklahoma state government publication is provided for educational purposes under U.S. copyright law. Other usage requires permission of copyright holders. |
Date created | 2013-02-26 |
Date modified | 2014-05-05 |
OCLC number | 890222214 |
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Title | v4i2 1 |
Full text | connec t ion OK-FIRE’s Widespread Impact ongoing drought and lack of soil moisture. James said he uses the 84-hour Fire Weather Forecast daily to help with his job. “Mainly I use OK-FIRE to help develop staffing levels for daily and weekend fire duty,” James said. “We are just now getting into the prescribed burn game so it will also be utilized heavily when trying to schedule burns to meet both objectives and prescriptions.” Another OK-FIRE user, Bob Hamilton, Director of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, uses it often during the prescribed fire season, mainly in spring, but also in the summer and fall. “The OK-FIRE site is great for me because it is one stop shopping,” said Hamilton. “Now everything is under the OK-FIRE umbrella, and it is easier to get to and more efficient.” Hamilton uses basic forecast information, OK-FIRE products broken down graphically, and hour-by-hour fuel conditions to get an idea of fire conditions. After a fire, he reviews what actually happened and conditions during that time frame, and prints the Mesonet and OK-FIRE data to file for that specific event. “We also monitor during the fire with our mobile devices,” Hamilton said. “The accessibility is really cool, and the forecasts and fire ecology tools are really good things.” Volume 4 — Issue 2 — February 2013 www.mesonet.org THE MESONET’S OK-FIRE PROGRAM has a wide reach across the state, impacting decisions made by a wide range of users from your local firefighters to state foresters. The tools provided by OK-FIRE help prepare them for prescribed burning and wildland fire situations. “I use weather forecasts to predict fire behavior,” said Jay Willis, Battalion Chief for the Stillwater Fire Department. “On any day that we could be involved with wildland fires, I print off a copy of the weather forecast to take with me. As a fire department, we are not normally involved with prescribed burns. We do, however recommend against it when conditions are not right.” Willis said the tools he uses most are wind speed and direction, relative humidity, ignition component and other fire behavior indexes, and temperature. These help him make decisions when it comes to incidents like the Glencoe fire in August 2012. “Several residences and outbuildings were lost, along with crops, fencing, equipment and natural resources,” Willis said. “Hopefully we get ground cover back before the next large rain, or the damage will continue.” Andy James, Southeast Area Forester for the Oklahoma Forestry Services, has witnessed similar damages. From hundreds of homes lost to thousands of acres of timber, he attributes the devastation in part to the –by Stephanie Bowen |
Date created | 2013-02-26 |
Date modified | 2013-02-26 |