8th Wildland Fire Safety Summit™
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Presentations and Poster Papers
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These files contain the proceedings and poster papers from the International
Association of Wildland Fire's Wildland Fire Safety Summit™ held in Missoula,
Montana April 26-28, 2005. Each link will open a new browser window.
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2005 Proceedings
| Presenter(s) / Author(s) |
Title of Presentation |
| Bret Butler, Marty Alexander |
Foreword – Eighth
International Wildland Fire Safety Summit |
| Robert W. Mutch |
A Dream, A Team, A Theme: Your Portal to Zero Defect Wildland
Fire Safety |
| Patrick Withen |
TEFF: The Ten Essential Factors in Firefighting |
| Jim Cook |
Wildland Fire Leadership Development Program |
| John Gould |
Five Years of SAFENET |
| Paul Chamberlin |
Portals to increased firefighter awareness |
| Jim Saveland |
Integral Leadership for High Reliability Organizing |
| Greg Vergari |
Back to Basics for the Fire Program Manager |
| Brian J. Sharkey, Brent Ruby, Steven Gaskill |
10 Years of Progress: Research and Development in Human
Performance |
| Dan Northern |
Cedar Fire review and analysis |
| Dave Thomas |
Staff Rides: An interactive tool for wildland firefighter
education |
| Jon Driessen, Lisa Outka-Perkins, Leslie Anderson |
A
Progress Report on the Entrapment Avoidance Project: Solving Crew Cohesion
Problems on Fires: Leader’s Stories |
| Jennifer A. Thackaberry |
Wisdom in the Lessons Learned Library: Work Ethics and Firefighter
Identities in the Fire Orders |
| Jules Leboeuf |
Effective Communications in Wildland Firefighting: Can Wildland
Fire Organizations Really Walk the Talk? |
| Greg Esnouf |
Developing a Comprehensive Operational Performance Improvement
Program |
| Col. Eric Peuch |
Firefighter Safety in France |
| Michelle Ryerson, Chuck Whitlock |
Use of Human Factors Analysis for Wildland Fire Accident
Investigations |
| Mary Omodei, Jim McLennan, Chris Reynolds |
Identifying why good firefighters make unsafe decisions |
| Larry Sutton |
High Tech versus Low Tech Training |
| D.X. Viegas, L.P. Pita, L. Ribeiro, P. Palheiro |
Eruptive Fire Behavior in Past Fatal Accidents |
| Mike Johns |
Liability Issues Related to Wildland Fire: Personal, Civil
and Criminal |
| P. Nasiatka, D. Christenson |
Organizational Learning in Fire: Moving towards a learning
culture |
| Mike DeGrosky |
Improving After Action Review (AAR) Practice |
| Ted Putnam |
Deep Psychology |
| Tom Leuschen |
Environmental Conditions as Indicators of Potential for
Rapid Rate of Spread in Wildland Fires |
| Lark McDonald, Larry Shadow |
Changes in Crew Lead Attitudes About Organizational Culture
and Safety Since 1998 |
| Kelly Close |
Fire
Behavior vs. Human Behavior – Why Lessons from
Cramer Matter |
| Karl Weick |
Organizing and Wildfire: Second-generation Human Factors
Issues |
2005 Poster Papers
| Presenter(s) / Author(s) |
Title of Presentation |
| David Nichols, Jim Gould, Ian Knight, Justin Leonard |
Protection of Firefighting Vehicle Crews |
| D.X. Viegas, M.T. Viegas |
Human Behavior Associated with Fatal Accidents of 2003 in
Portugal |
| Mary Omodei, Glenn Elliott, Matthew Walshe, Alex Wearing |
Networked Fire Chief: A research and training tool that
targets the human factors causes of unsafe decision making in wildfires |
| Robert L. Kremens, Jason Faulring, and Dan Phillips |
A compact device to monitor and report firefighter health,
location and status |
| Greg Larson, Ph.D., Kelly Rossetto, Cade Spaulding and Vita
Wright |
Firefighter Safety Management: An Annotated Bibliography |
| Bill Lee |
Building Group Cohesion In Type II Fire Crews |
| Marty Alexander, Greg Baxter and Gary Dakin |
Travel Rates of Alberta Wildland Firefighters Using Escape
Routes |
J. Riddering, S. Holbrook, C. Teske, D. Helmbrecht, N. Johnson,
L. Queen, C.
Comstock, and L. Macholz |
Using Surveillance Cameras on Remote Fires: Safety and Cost
Containment |
| Bequi Livingston |
Fireline Fitness |
| Karl Brauneis |
“A Blackwater Comparison” – How
Can We Blend the Best of Two Worlds for Fire Safety |
| Charles Palmer |
Wildland Firefighters and Injury |
| Brad Mayhew |
In Pursuit of a Human Factors Tool for Wildland Firefighters |
| Stewart Peterson, Brian Maraj, Nel Eves, Michael Stickland,
Michael Gilpin and Randy Dreger |
Thermal Responses to Exercise While Wearing Industrial Protective Headwear |
| George Solverson and Jim Kautz |
Situational Awareness Poster |
| Craig S. Goodell |
10 Standard Fire Orders and Watch Out Situations: There
is a Better Way |
| Jennifer Vollmer |
New Technology for Fuel Breaks and Green Strips in Urban
Interface and Wildland Areas |
| G.J. McKay and T.J. Maher |
Communicating With the Community: Walk the Talk |
| TJ Maher and G.J. McKay |
Flexibility in the Air: Multi-purpose Aircraft Provide for
Prescribed Fire Security, Wildfire Detection and Air Attacks Using High-winged
Single Engine Aircraft in Western Australia |
| B. Butler, R. Stratton, M. Finney, J. Forthofer, L. Bradshaw
and D. Jimenez |
Detailed wind information and at its application to improved
firefighter safety |
Proceedings can be downloaded at no charge, or you
can order a CD containing them all by clicking here.
2006 9th Wildland Fire Safety Summit™
April 25-27, 2006 Pasadena, California, USA
Click here for
Proceedings (12.6 MB) from this conference in zip file/PDF format.
2005 8th Wildland Fire Safety Summit™
April 26-28, 2005 Missoula, Montana, USA
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in PDF format.
2004
No conference
2003 7th Wildland Fire Safety Summit™
November 18-20, 2003 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aviation and Forest
Fire Management Branch.
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for Proceedings of this conference, PDF files in one zipped file.
Click here for individual Presentations from this conference,
now available in PDF format.
2002 6th Wild Fire Safety Summit™
November 18-20, 2002 Luso, Portugal.
Proceedings of the IV International Conference on Forest Fire Research /2002
Wildland Fire Safety Summit™, D.X. Viegas (ed.), Luso, Coimbra,
Portugal 18-23 November 2002, Millpress Science Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
ISBN 90-77017-72-0
Click here for Proceedings of this conference. (4.2 MB in zip/pdf format)
2001 5th Wildland Fire Safety Summit™
November 6-8, 2001
iversity of Montana Missoula, Montana
Click here for Proceedings of this conference.
Findings of the Wildland Fire Safety Summit™, 6-8 November, 2001 View
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