- FIRESCOPE
FIRESCOPE is an abbreviation which stands for "FIrefighting REsources of Southern California Organized for Potential Emergencies." It is a system developed to improve the capability of firefighting agencies in southern California in allocating and managing fire suppression resources. The system provides an effective and efficient solution to operational coordination requirements and problems of the major fire protection agencies serving the southern California urban-wildland complex. Major wildland fires are a common annual occurrence in this Mediterranean-like climate which typically gives the area 4 to 6 months of almost total drought. In addition, the region is threatened with infrequent, but potentially disastrous, urban emergencies precipitated by flooding, earthquake, and fire. The FIRESCOPE program is directed towards improving the effectiveness of the close working arrangement of fire services in the area in response to any major incident, not just those involving wildland fire. [FIRESCOPE: a new concept in multiagency fire suppression coordination USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-040, 17 p. ...www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/24094 - 19k - ]
Design of the system, as well as its initial development and testing was begun in 1972 by a specially chartered research development and application (RD&A) program at the US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Forest & Range Experiment Station's Forest Fire Laboratory in Riverside, California. Funding for the 5-year RD&A program was provided by a special appropriation from Congress in response to concerns raised by disasterous Southern California wildfires in 1970 which burned more than a half million acres, destroying 700 structures and taking 16 lives. Problem analysis was carried out jointly by Forest Service researchers and personnel from the principal Southern California fire agencies who also provided support for the system design.
ee also
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California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection *
National Wildfire Coordinating Group *
National Interagency Fire Center *
Wildland fire suppression See Also - FireScope, Inc (Software Company)
FireScope, Inc., provides innovative, simple and affordable service management software globally. FireScope product lines include FireScope BSM, FireScope CMDB, fireScope Workbench, Data Now Portlet and FireScope Modeler.
* [http://www.firescope.com/ FireScope, Inc. Website]
* FireScope, Inc. WikiReferences
External links
* [http://www.firescope.org/ FIRESCOPE website]
* [http://www.cafirealliance.org/ California Fire Alliance]
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