Rosi Mulholland
Fire Coordinator
Tools for Prescribed BurningTools for Prescribed Burning
Florida State Parks2007
160 Parks
695,996 acres
Florida State Parks
104 parks have fire-dependent acres
583, 447 upland acres
~263,000 acres are Fire-Dependent
FPS needs to burn 80,000 ac/yr
Ten year average 45,000 ac/yr
FPS Million Acre March1972 - 2007
Congratulations FPS !!
You've come a long way . . .
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1972 - 2006 Through Jan 7 Through Jan 14 Through Jan 21 Through Jan 31 Through Feb 7 Through Feb 14 Through Feb 21
Parks BurningWeek of Feb 15-21
Bald PointGold HeadHontoonJonathan Dickinson Kissimmee PrairieLake KissimmeeLake LouisaMyakka RiverOscar SchererPaynes PrairieSebastian InletSt. AndrewsSt. MarksSuwannee RiverThree RiversWekiwa Springs
February 21, 20071,000,866 acres
When you are in deep trouble, look straight ahead, keep your mouth shut, and say nothing.
Technical AdvisorsTechnical AdvisorsSam McGee/Ray MojicaSam McGee/Ray Mojica––photo pointsphoto pointsEd Harris Ed Harris –– XM weatherXM weatherScott Goodrick Scott Goodrick –– Goggle Goggle Earth smoke plottingEarth smoke plottingBrendan Mulholland Brendan Mulholland –– ITITMatt Corby Matt Corby –– Interagency Interagency cooperationcooperationSteve Miller Steve Miller –– webweb--based based hydrological datahydrological dataTask Master Task Master –– Doreen Doreen DiCarloDiCarlo
Neil Clineman & Bryan Neil Clineman & Bryan Kreiter Kreiter –– Polaris outfittingPolaris outfittingRusty Boys Rusty Boys –– PyroShotPyroShotDragon Toys Dragon Toys –– Jeff Jeff SchardtSchardtRed Tape Burning Red Tape Burning –– Boyd Boyd BlihovdeBlihovdeRadio Technology Radio Technology ––Laura ButterfieldLaura ButterfieldStandStand--in Speaker in Speaker –– Deb Deb HanleyHanley
Brevard Co., DEP, Fla. Natl. Guard, SJRWMD, TNC, USFWS, DOF, East Ridge HS, Florida Atlantic Univ., Private
The Perfect Tool is Out ThereThe Perfect Tool is Out There
Google Earth and Smoke ScreeningGoogle Earth and Smoke Screening
Simple gridSimple grid--based based screening toolscreening toolReplaces old plastic Replaces old plastic protractorprotractorUseful for planningUseful for planning
Google Earth and VsmokeGoogle Earth and Vsmoke
New implementation of New implementation of standard VSmoke standard VSmoke modelmodelUses Google Earth as Uses Google Earth as the GIS interface for the GIS interface for displaying resultsdisplaying resultsDramatically reduced Dramatically reduced learning curve learning curve compared to VSmokecompared to VSmoke--GISGIS
Google Earth and BlueSkyGoogle Earth and BlueSky
Ingest smoke Ingest smoke concentration forecasts concentration forecasts from BlueSky and from BlueSky and display in Google Earthdisplay in Google EarthProvides estimates of Provides estimates of hourly surface hourly surface particulate matter particulate matter concentrations.concentrations.
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Basic Field Weather Instrumentation
Kestrel 4500 ~ $400
WindMate ~ $220
XM Weather XM Weather http://www.xmradio.com/weather/overview.xmchttp://www.xmradio.com/weather/overview.xmc. .
Antenna ~ $250, service $30/month/antenna
DEP BIPM using with Garmin GPSMap376C ~ $1,000
Near Real-time Weather Data
Enhanced GPS Technology
Topo layer, aerial photo layer, way points, collected data points, shape files
www.delorme.com Earthmate ~ $350
www.ricohsolutions.com/geo Cost: ~ $1100
Sufficient Radio System to Maximize Communications
Effectiveness
www.Relm.com
Mobile $800
Portable $750
Hand - Held Aerial Ignition Device
Launcher - $1895
www.SEI-ind.com
~ $8600 free trial
Free
Dragon eggs ~ $217/1,000
POK Nozzles:$150 - $400 +
POK Sticks:Mini - $5.50+ ea
Large - $16+ ea
POK Foam Technology
Silvex = $13/gal
Water Distribution Manifold – simplifies plumbing by bringing water to central point and dispersing it to outlets
Questions?