GFMC AND THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
International Video Conference
Recent Developments and Needs for Wildfire Fighting on the Ground: Tactics and Technologies
10 June 2010
Introduction
The Field Analytical Chemistry and Technology Unit/ National Technical University of Athens (FIACTU / NTUA), in the framework of the FP7 project FIRELI (Fire Retardant Hoses Lines for Forestry Fire-Fighting Applications/No: 222152) co-organized with the European Center for Forest Fires (ECFF) and theGlobal Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) / United Nations University (UNU) a video conference on recent developments and needs for ground methods and tools for forest fire suppression. GFMC served as conference chair.
Main topics of the video conference agenda were tactics and training in forest fire suppression, technologies and ground means used, as well as end-users requirements. Participants from different fire services and relevant organizations in Europe participated.
Presentations and Results
- Conference agenda (PDF, 0.1 MB)
- Introduction by GFMC (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Capacity building for firefighters: The EuroFire Competency Standards (PDF, 0.5 MB)
- Firefighting tactics: Some considerations based on international experience (PDF, 0.3 MB)
- Techniques and tactics of firefighting on the ground: CTIF views from Switzerland (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Forest fire control in Cyprus (PDF, 0.4 MB)
- Production of advanced fire-fighting hoses by Mesa (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Field testing of a new fire fighting hose: The FIRELI Project (PDF, 0.8 MB)
- Wildfires in the irradiated forests around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant: Needs for development of early warning, detection and monitoring capacity for disaster risk reduction (PDF, 3.8 MB)
- Prescribed fire on terrain contaminated by Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) and land mines(PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Conference conclusions (PDF, 0.1 MB)