Situation Report - Sep 01, 2010

Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre Inc.
National Wildland Fire Situation Report

Sep 01, 2010, 15:00 Hours

National Preparedness Level:	Level 1
Description:	No large wildland fire activity nationally. Most Agencies have low fire hazard, load and potential. Little or no national mobilizations. No weekly teleconference scheduled. ** If the situation builds a call will be scheduled and noted on the SitRep (Wednesday 11:00 CDT).

Prov	Agency Operational Summary
ON	Forecast wx will reduce fire hazard across the province.
QC	All resources requests will be evaluated based on the current situation in Quebec.

A	Last 24 Hours
		All Fires
		LTG	HUM	TOT
	BC	1		1
	YT			0
	AB	1	2	3
	NT			0
	SK			0
	MB			0
	ON	1	1	2
	QC	3	4	7
	NL		1	1
	NB		3	3
	NS			0
	PE			0
	PC			0
	Total	6	11	17

B	Full Response
	Burning				Totals
		OC	UC	TOT		OUT	TOT	Hectares
	BC	19	113	132	BC	1373	1505	245,571.00
	YT		5	5	YT	42	47	52.32
	AB		17	17	AB	1689	1706	83,396.24
	NT	4	1	5	NT	87	92	141,240.26
	SK			0	SK	334	334	15,363.62
	MB	1	3	4	MB	485	489	87,530.00
	ON	2	2	4	ON	836	840	10,717.30
	QC		7	7	QC	661	668	256,774.90
	NL		2	2	NL	44	46	46.40
	NB		4	4	NB	161	165	149.10
	NS			0	NS	291	291	461.00
	PE			0	PE	2	2	4.80
	PC		4	4	PC	63	67	284.37
	Total	26	158	184	Total	6068	6252	841,591.31

C	Modified Response
		ACT	OUT	TOT	Hectares
	BC	68		68	76,796.00
	YT	34	5	39	155,809.44
	AB			0
	NT	39	88	127	179,473.28
	SK	23	213	236	1,761,864.68
	MB	22	58	80	62,630.00
	ON	8	38	46	4,268.40
	QC	2	27	29	95,837.50
	NL		4	4	769.70
	NB			0
	NS			0
	PE			0
	PC	26	8	34	5,888.50
	Total	222	441	663	2,343,337.50

D	Grand Totals
		Fires	Hectares
	BC	1573	322,367.00
	YT	86	155,861.76
	AB	1706	83,396.24
	NT	219	320,713.54
	SK	570	1,777,228.30
	MB	569	150,160.00
	ON	886	14,985.70
	QC	697	352,612.40
	NL	50	816.10
	NB	165	149.10
	NS	291	461.00
	PE	2	4.80
	PC	101	6,172.87
	Total	6915	3,184,928.81

E	Prescribed Fires
		ACT	OUT	Total	Hectares
	BC			0
	YT			0
	AB		14	14	1,480.42
	NT			0
	SK			0
	MB			0
	ON		3	3	69.80
	QC		1	1	30.00
	NL		1	1	200.00
	NB			0
	NS			0
	PE			0
	PC		8	8	2,049.00
	Total	0	27	27	3,829.22

Agency Preparedness Level For Today

	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
Agency Fire Hazard	Low	Low - Mod	Mod - High	High - Ex	Extreme
Current Fire Load	Low	Low - Mod	Mod - High	High	High - Ex
Anticipated Load (7 Days)	Low	Moderate	High	High - Heavy	Heavy
Agency Resource Levels	Adequate	Adequate	Some Assistance	Assistance Req.	Inadequate
CIFFC request for Mutual Aid Response Level	Excellent	Good	Mod - Poor	Poor - Nil	Nil
Potential for international assistance	nil	nil	nil	Increasing	Consideration

	APL
BC	2
YT
AB	1
NT	1
SK	1
MB	1
ON	1
QC	1
NL	2
NB	2
NS	2
PE
PC	1

Current and Forecasted Weather Sites

Forecasted Fire Weather Index for Tomorrow (Hot Link to the CWFIS Fire Danger Map courtesy of the CFS NoFC)
http://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/en_CA/fwmaps/fwi/20100902
Current and Forecasted Weather (Hot Link to the AES Weather site)
http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/canada_e.html

H	Comment on Preparedness Planning
AB	Overall downtrend across the province.
MB	Resources adequate.
ON	Resources adequate for expected fire arrivals.

I	Prediction of Fire Occurrence
		Lightning	Human
	BC	20	2
	SK	0-1	0-1
	MB	0-1	0-1
	ON	1-3	0-2
	QC	1-3	1-3
	NL	0	1-2
	NB		2

J	Priority Wildland Fires (Status and Comments)
		Fire #	Lat	Long	Size (ha)	Resources Committed	Comments (forecast control etc.)

K	Casual Hire Helicopters
		Light	Intermediate	Medium	Heavy
	BC	12	20	12
	AB		2
	ON		1
	QC	2	1
	Total	14	24	12	0

Possibility of Resource Requirements

Outstanding Resource Requests

For

Resources

M	Past 24 Hours Mobilization
	To	Resources	From

N	Resource Mobilization: To
	BC	YT	AB	NT	SK	MB	ON	QC	NL	NB	NS	PE	PC	CIFFC	US	Total
Personnel
Sustained Action	198															198
Incident Mgmt Team	27															27
Overhead	40															40
Equipment
Pump Kits	696				100			2								798
Hose	16480							429								16909
Pulaski																0
Sprinkler heads					500											500
Chainsaw c/w kits	28															28
Shovel																0
Axe																0
Relay Tank	55															55
Aircraft

Resource Mobilization: From
	BC	YT	AB	NT	SK	MB	ON	QC	NL	NB	NS	PE	PC	CIFFC	US	Total
Personnel
Sustained Action							178						20			198
Incident Mgmt Team							19						8			27
Overhead		3	5	2			13						2		15	40
Equipment
Pump Kits	2		146				480	170								798
Hose	429		1920				11560	3000								16909
Pulaski																0
Sprinkler heads			400				100									500
Chainsaw c/w kits							28									28
Shovel																0
Axe																0
Relay Tank							55									55
Aircraft

Compact Agreement Mobilization

To	Resources	From

O	Resource Demobilization
	To	Resources	From
	NT	1/21p Type 1 Sustained Action Crew 1/20p Type 1 Sustained Action Crew 2 Division Supervisors 2 Agency Representatives	BC
	ON	4/20p Type 1 Sustained Action Crews 1 Fire Fighter 1 Agency Representative	BC

Compact Agreement Demobilization

To	Resources	From

Resource Availability Report

Total

Personnel

Overhead

Equipment

Value protection unit

Mobile whse

Relay Tank

Pump Kits

Hose

500

320

1320

Aircraft

Skimmer

4/415

2/215

1/802

Mentoree
From	Position

United States:
Fire Activity: 85 fires for 419.25 hectares during the last 24 hours

Year to Date Fires	43,293
Year to Date Hectares	1,057,284.95

US Preparedness Level

Level 2 Description:
One Geographic Area experiencing high fire danger.
Wildland fire activity is occurring and a potential exists for escapes to larger (project) fires.
Minimal mobilization of resources from other Geographic Areas is occurring.
The potential exists for mobilizing additional resources from other Geographic Areas.

Duty Officer:	Dick Bon
CIFFC:	24 hours	ciffc@ciffc.ca
	204-784-2030	www.ciffc.ca

Summary of the Total Fires and Hectares to Date compared to the Last Year fire season

Fires			Hectares
	2009	2010		2009	2010
BC	2,744	1,573	BC	220,526	322,367
YT	118	86	YT	294,907	155,862
AB	1,419	1,706	AB	64,272	83,396
NT	41	219	NT	2,055	320,714
SK	481	570	SK	37,748	1,777,228
MB	141	569	MB	2,691	150,160
ON	334	886	ON	20,622	14,986
QC	441	697	QC	122,643	352,612
NL	166	50	NL	52,593	816
NB	174	165	NB	244	149
NS	160	291	NS	930	461
PE	0	2	PE	0	5
PC	122	101	PC	36,732	6,173
Total	6,341	6,915	Total	855,963	3,184,929

Fires						Hectares
	5 yr avg	10 yr avg	15 yr avg	20 yr avg	25 yr avg		5 yr avg	10 yr avg	15 yr avg	20 yr avg	25 yr avg
BC	1,459	1,595	1,498	1,759	1,407	BC	81,115	86,372	67,141	55,428	44,342
YT	76	91	110	124	99	YT	127,514	229,405	213,627	191,552	153,241
AB	1,107	1,089	1,000	972	777	AB	68,897	134,124	156,259	121,708	97,366
NT	127	156	185	234	187	NT	137,269	146,707	432,358	487,261	389,809
SK	328	458	531	567	453	SK	319,006	310,914	391,044	368,229	294,583
MB	264	422	442	436	349	MB	65,771	100,758	158,981	170,807	136,645
ON	911	866	1,078	1,117	894	ON	24,870	61,985	146,042	152,137	121,710
QC	642	616	729	724	579	QC	285,372	245,701	302,918	266,436	213,149
NL	93	129	136	134	107	NL	18,917	25,410	24,664	30,835	24,668
NB	209	242	288	327	262	NB	271	290	444	1,072	858
NS	208	234	267	296	237	NS	750	637	666	726	580
PE	10	12	15	18	14	PE	21	17	41	47	37
PC	81	87	78	79	63	PC	64,574	68,810	53,969	44,966	35,973
Total	5,515	5,996	6,359	6,786	5,429	Total	1,194,347	1,411,130	1,948,153	1,891,203	1,512,963