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Wildland FirefightingFire
Safety A WebQuest designed
for 7th-12th grade levels. Designed by Justin
O’Brien
Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page
During this project students will
be… §Learning
different firefighting tactics. §Learning
about fire safety. §Understanding
the role of each firefighter in the case of an incident. §Finding
the different agencies associated with an incident. During this WebQuest I will be asking
students to formulate their own plan of attack.I
will provide students with information and tactics that are needed and
used by firefighters in the field.They
will formulate an essay describing how they will execute the head of the
fire incident team’s orders to come to the end of a successful mission
of extinguishing a fire.
This project requires
some deep thought and strategy when forming ideas for their papers. 1)Students
will split into groups of two. 2)Students
will start out by researching the different websites that are associated
with wildland firefighting and their roles. ·www.fs.fed.us/fire-- United
States Forest Service ·www.smokejumpers.com/index.html ·www.fs.fed.us/fire/fire_new/links/links_education.html 3)The
students will choose an incident to work with from the two listed below. 4)They
will then formulate a plan-of-attack for the incident. 5)When
formulating this plan the students will need to list the resources and
personnel needed for the incident.Along
with listing whom will be needed, the students will need to describe the
tasks each person will need to perform.They
will need to make a map showing where all the different resources will
be positioned. 6)When
describing the different operations each person will need to perform, the
student needs to list and integrate the different safety tips that should
be integrated into the personnel’s job description. ·http://www.impulse.net/~mlynch/WildFireSafety.html ·http://www.aviation.fs.fed.us/safecom/index.htm ·http://www.wildfirenews.com/fire/10orders.html Incident Scenarios1)It
is July 10th with temperatures reaching 90+. There is a large
incident fire burning out of control in the NW part of Montana that started
the night before from a thunderstorm passing through.This
region is very mountainous and difficult to hike to.There
are no resources currently at the site of the fire.There
is very little access to the site of the fire.The
fire has burnt up to 300 acres and is continuing to burn hot and fast.The
weather conditions are fairly mild except for gusty winds reaching 30+
out of the NW.The weather report
is calling for a clear starry night.The
ground and grass is dry from a dry summer.The
fire is currently burning below standing pine and spruce trees, in the
grass, but with the right winds this fire could jump into some of the trees
and possibly torch out.
2)It
is August 3rd with temperatures towering in the 90’s.There
is a large incident fire burning out of control in the Black Hills of SD
that has been burning for 2 days.There
are some local crews trying to contain the 1000 acre fire that started
just off of Hwy. 16.The region is
very hilly and somewhat hard to access with the large canyons that are
in the area of the incident.The
weather conditions are mild except for gusty winds reaching 25+ out of
the NW.The weather report for
tonight calls for developing thunderstorms.The
ground cover is mostly covered with grass and a few saplings.There
are however, large stands of Ponderosa pine trees in the area. Objectives Determine the cause of the fire and sort out different resources you would order for the specific incident you have chosen from above.Specify which personnel you would need to accomplish the goal of extinguishing the fire.
After completing an essay the student
will have a better understanding of what type of tasks are required when
handling an incident. There
are many pieces that are needed to form the large puzzle of a team of firefighters. I
hope students get as much out of this project as I have throughout the
many seasons of fighting fire myself.
I
would also like to thank wildlandfire.com for my wallpaper and the image.
Along
with these sites I would like to thank my instructor, Denise Peterson,
who helped me develop the skills needed to make my WebQuest.
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