Interagency Fire Prevention Team

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Interagency Fire Prevention Team
Utah!
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Major Team AccomplishmentsJuly 10-July 26

• Theatre Slides
• Grocery Bag flyers (Smiths/Albertsons)
• Fire-Resistant Plant List
• Firewise 2000 PPT Presentation
• Train the Trainer for Fire Depts.
• Presentation to Park City FD
• Contacts with Homeowners Associations
• Media Releases
• Days of 47 Rodeo

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Objectives
To reduce the occurrence of human-caused fires
and develop Firewise communities

• Continue to increase awareness of existing fire
  hazards in the interface along the Wasatch Front.
• Continue to distribute Fireworks safety posters
  and flyers to target fireworks vendors and users.
• Continue to re-establish contact with Tooele
  County fire managers.
• Develop and coordinate key messages to be used
  statewide for current fire season Days of
  47, Labor Day, and Hunting Season.
• Provide interagency expertise in public
  relations and outreach to develop Firewise
  communities.

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Tactics

• Distribute Firewise Community materials
• Post fire hazard/fire restriction information
• Distribute fireworks/smokey messages
• theaters
• grocery stores/garden stores
• fire departments
• homeowners associations
• media
• web sites
• community information centers
• public events

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Theatre Slides
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Theatre Slides
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Grocery Bags/Plant List

• Distributed survivable space flyer
• SmithsOgden to Provo along the East Bench
• Albertsons
• Gas Stations/Convenience Stores on Wasatch
• Red Hawk HA/Park City
• Developed and distributed plant list
• Home Depot
• Nurseries
• Red Butte Garden Arboritum

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PPT Presentation
Firewise

• COMMUNITY AWARENESS

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Train the Trainer
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Presentation in Park City
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Fire Departments

• Contacted and distributed materials to

• Bountiful Fire Department
• Sandy Fire Department
• Salt Lake City Fire Department
• Salt Lake County Fire Department
• Stansberry Fire Department
• Terra Fire Department
• Tooele Fire Department
• Park City Fire Department
• Vernon Fire Department

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Local Area Photos
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Presentations to Homeowners
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Homeowners Assn.

• Gave materials/made presentations to
• Elk Creek HA/Woodland Hills
• Emmigration Canyon HA
• North Fork FAC/Sundance
• Red Hawk HA/Park City
• Contacted
• Christmas Meadows
• Eagle Landing
• Hobble Creek
• Silver Lake
• Soapstone Summer HA

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Media Contacts
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Media Contacts

• Sent out news releases statewide
• Contacted local TV stations for feature article
  on How Fire Managers Assess Fire Danger
• Fire/Fireworks Restrictions
• Defensible Space
• Train the Trainer
• High Fire Danger
• Lack of Resources

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Days of 47 Rodeo
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Suggestions for Continuation
SHORT TERM

• Pursue video shoot with Karl Malone
• Include fire danger rating graphic in newspapers
• Pursue article in local papers on assessing fire
  danger

LONG TERM

• Improve fire danger signs into Emmigration
  Canyon and along I-80 to Summit County
• Look into developing local fire coops
• Continue contacts with homeowners
• Develop evacuation procedures
• Ban fireworks sales with fireworks restrictions

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Utah Interagency Fire Prevention Team
Our thanks to all the people at the Salt Lake
City BLM office for their support and cooperation
throughout our assignment! Special thanks
to Jay, Roger, Jeff, Katie, and Stacey