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Fire Weather: Something You Shouldn't Forget (Sunday, March 28, second session)
Faculty: Risa Lange-Navarro
Being mindful of fire weather can go a long way toward helping us have a safe fire season. This presentation covers basic fire weather conditions that affect decisions made before, during, and after wildland fires. Unfortunately, some people tend to become complacent about these conditions and end up compromising the safety of themselves and others. A few of the conditions we will discuss include:
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Cold fronts and their associated winds: more than a breeze? |
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Foehn winds: what are they and why should we care? |
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Thunderstorms and other extreme weather conditions that can change a wildland fire from a small one into a "Kodak moment" |
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Terrain and wildland fires themselves: what are they really telling us in relation to the weather? |
About the faculty:
Risa Lange-Navarro is a Fire Use Training Specialist for the USDA Forest Service at the Northern Rockies Training Center, Aerial Fire Depot, in Missoula, Montana. She is a qualified Fire Behavior Analyst and Long Term Fire Behavior Analyst, and has been a faculty member for Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation since 1995. She has worked her way up through the wildland fire ranks starting in 1978 as a temporary on the saw crew on the Lolo N.F., and getting her permanent status on the Deschutes N.F. in 1984. She worked in many locations in the northwest and northern Rockies -- in positions ranging from engine crews, hotshots, and helitack to AFMO and DFMO -- before returning home to western Montana in 1990. She moved into her current position in 1999. Lange-Navarro holds a B.S. in forestry with an emphasis in fire science from the University of Montana.
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