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| Assessing Local Fire Department Capabilities in the Wildland/Urban Interface |
| Hylton Haynes, NFPA |
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More than 72,000 communities across the United States are at risk of wildfire. Because local fire departments are normally the initial responders to a wildfire and are often overwhelmed when a wildfire goes beyond the initial attack period, it's crucial to understand their level of preparedness. This session will present the results of NFPA's assessment of 30,052 local fire departments serving communities at risk.
Presented by:
Hylton Haynes, NFPA
Hylton Haynes is responsible for NFPA's annual survey of fire departments for the US fire experience and other fire service research projects within the Division of Fire Analysis and Research at NFPA. He holds an MS in Forestry and Forest Products from Virginia Tech and has over 14 years of natural resource and wildland fire management experience on two continents.
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