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US firefighters arrive to assist with long-term strategy to tackle escalating bushfire crisis
"Aus and us share forces almost routinely."
Apparently some Canadian firefighters are on the way too.
US firefighters have arrived in Australia to assist in the ongoing bushfire crisis, saying it was an “easy decision” to come and help.
Phoebe Loomes@dollyybird
news.com.auDecember 10, 20191:36pm
Video - l0:38 Firefighters Battle Gospers Mountain Fire as Temperatures Soar in New South Wales
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service said the bushfire burning in the Wollemi National
Park area had reached 309,000 hectares in size (about 1,200 square miles) by December ...
A team of specialised wildfire firefighters have arrived from the US to assist local crews as they continue their ongoing battle against dozens of fires.
Yesterday 21 US personnel arrived in Sydney to fight bushfires that have continued to burn across numerous parts of the country, including 80 fires today burning in NSW, 35 of which are burning out of control.
The decision to come to Australia and help with managing the ongoing crisis was “actually … pretty easy”, according to Kyle Cowan, the associate manager from the Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Fire Service. He said he and his team were aware of the losses already experienced by locals just one week into summer.
The US team was told in their arrival briefing of the “unprecedented” conditions and large bushfire sizes across NSW, Queensland and into Victoria, according to Mr Cowan.
“It’s very large fires, a very large season and your summer has just begun,” he told the ABC.
Mr Cowan said the firefighters were highly experienced, many with two or three decades of fire seasons behind them. He said conditions in the US had reached similar intensities to those in Australia, with fires increasing in both severity and size.
US Consulate Sydney
@USConGenSydney
Proud to welcome a team of American firefighting personnel to
#Sydney to assist @NSWRFS with the ongoing bushfires.
Thank you to the men and women of @BLMNational @forestservice
@NatlParkService @BureauIndAffrs @USFWS.
10:54 AM - Dec 9, 2019
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Fire protection on Braddocks Rd, Orangeville, where properties were threatened by a
bushfire. Fire and Rescue NSW Supplied
The decision to offer assistance to Aussie firefighters was made due to “early and significant fire activity” across the east coast, from “extended drought combined with hot and dry weather conditions”, the National Interagency Fire Centre in the US said in a statement.
“We recognise the hardships folks have had here. Some people have lost everything. It’s actually a pretty easy decision for us for us to want to come to help,” Mr Cowan said.
“The folks we’re bringing are very experienced, probably averaging between 25 to 30 years of experience.”
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He said the US firefighters had expertise in aviation, operations and “long-term planning and strategic planning”.
He said crews could use their expertise to analyse fuels on the ground and use that to model and plan how to predict and fight fires. Mr Cowan said tactics could include the best use of large air tankers.
“Also you can go direct on a fire line, which is where you go as close to a fire as possible and try to build a fire break,’ he said.
“Another tactic we use is indirect (firefighting), which is to burn out. That’s from a road, you create that barrier yourself.”
On working with the local teams, Mr Cowan said there was the odd confusing language term, and driving on the opposite side of the road could be an initial challenge as crews settled in.
The last time US firefighters were sent to assist in Australia was in 2010.
Mr Cowan said he would remain in Australia until mid-January.
Nine total fire bans are in place in NSW, as heatwave conditions are forecast for large parts of inland NSW this week. Temperatures set to reach the low 40s in parts of the state.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/us-firefighters-arrive-to-assist-with-longterm-strategy-to-tackle-escalating-bushfire-crisis/news-story/98b71f1b51ddb7fe95489157f5a1b8ac
This one, though she seems to have tossed in a 'qualification' farther down, looks to include at least one example of sloppy reporting.
'Smells like it's time to go to work': American firefighters arrive in Sydney
By Jenny Noyes
December 8, 2019 — 2.50pm
As the first ever deployment of American firefighters made the descent into Sydney from the United States on Saturday morning, the bushfire smoke cloaking the city for the past week filled the aircraft cabin. For firefighting aviation specialist Michelle Moore, from Idaho, the smell wasn’t alarming.
"I understand it’s pretty traumatic for you guys, but it’s something we deal with - it’s our comfort zone," she said. "It smells like it’s time to go to work."
Aviation specialist Michelle Moore. Edwina Pickles
Ms Moore is one of 21 specialist firefighting personnel from the US, and another 21 from Canada, to join NSW’s "marathon" effort to contain bushfires that now stretch along the entire coast and have, since July, burnt through two million hectares and destroyed more than 680 homes.
While NSW has sent firefighters to the US every year for the past two decades, it’s the first time the Rural Fire Service has made the call for a full-scale reciprocal response.
More - https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/it-smells-like-it-s-time-to-go-to-work-american-firefighters-arrive-in-sydney-20191208-p53hxt.html
"Aus and us share forces almost routinely."
Apparently some Canadian firefighters are on the way too.
US firefighters have arrived in Australia to assist in the ongoing bushfire crisis, saying it was an “easy decision” to come and help.
Phoebe Loomes@dollyybird
news.com.auDecember 10, 20191:36pm
Video - l0:38 Firefighters Battle Gospers Mountain Fire as Temperatures Soar in New South Wales
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service said the bushfire burning in the Wollemi National
Park area had reached 309,000 hectares in size (about 1,200 square miles) by December ...
A team of specialised wildfire firefighters have arrived from the US to assist local crews as they continue their ongoing battle against dozens of fires.
Yesterday 21 US personnel arrived in Sydney to fight bushfires that have continued to burn across numerous parts of the country, including 80 fires today burning in NSW, 35 of which are burning out of control.
The decision to come to Australia and help with managing the ongoing crisis was “actually … pretty easy”, according to Kyle Cowan, the associate manager from the Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Fire Service. He said he and his team were aware of the losses already experienced by locals just one week into summer.
The US team was told in their arrival briefing of the “unprecedented” conditions and large bushfire sizes across NSW, Queensland and into Victoria, according to Mr Cowan.
“It’s very large fires, a very large season and your summer has just begun,” he told the ABC.
Mr Cowan said the firefighters were highly experienced, many with two or three decades of fire seasons behind them. He said conditions in the US had reached similar intensities to those in Australia, with fires increasing in both severity and size.
US Consulate Sydney
@USConGenSydney
Proud to welcome a team of American firefighting personnel to
#Sydney to assist @NSWRFS with the ongoing bushfires.
Thank you to the men and women of @BLMNational @forestservice
@NatlParkService @BureauIndAffrs @USFWS.
10:54 AM - Dec 9, 2019
See US Consulate Sydney's other Tweets
Fire protection on Braddocks Rd, Orangeville, where properties were threatened by a
bushfire. Fire and Rescue NSW Supplied
The decision to offer assistance to Aussie firefighters was made due to “early and significant fire activity” across the east coast, from “extended drought combined with hot and dry weather conditions”, the National Interagency Fire Centre in the US said in a statement.
“We recognise the hardships folks have had here. Some people have lost everything. It’s actually a pretty easy decision for us for us to want to come to help,” Mr Cowan said.
“The folks we’re bringing are very experienced, probably averaging between 25 to 30 years of experience.”
–– ADVERTISEMENT ––
He said the US firefighters had expertise in aviation, operations and “long-term planning and strategic planning”.
He said crews could use their expertise to analyse fuels on the ground and use that to model and plan how to predict and fight fires. Mr Cowan said tactics could include the best use of large air tankers.
“Also you can go direct on a fire line, which is where you go as close to a fire as possible and try to build a fire break,’ he said.
“Another tactic we use is indirect (firefighting), which is to burn out. That’s from a road, you create that barrier yourself.”
On working with the local teams, Mr Cowan said there was the odd confusing language term, and driving on the opposite side of the road could be an initial challenge as crews settled in.
The last time US firefighters were sent to assist in Australia was in 2010.
Mr Cowan said he would remain in Australia until mid-January.
Nine total fire bans are in place in NSW, as heatwave conditions are forecast for large parts of inland NSW this week. Temperatures set to reach the low 40s in parts of the state.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/us-firefighters-arrive-to-assist-with-longterm-strategy-to-tackle-escalating-bushfire-crisis/news-story/98b71f1b51ddb7fe95489157f5a1b8ac
This one, though she seems to have tossed in a 'qualification' farther down, looks to include at least one example of sloppy reporting.
'Smells like it's time to go to work': American firefighters arrive in Sydney
By Jenny Noyes
December 8, 2019 — 2.50pm
As the first ever deployment of American firefighters made the descent into Sydney from the United States on Saturday morning, the bushfire smoke cloaking the city for the past week filled the aircraft cabin. For firefighting aviation specialist Michelle Moore, from Idaho, the smell wasn’t alarming.
"I understand it’s pretty traumatic for you guys, but it’s something we deal with - it’s our comfort zone," she said. "It smells like it’s time to go to work."
Aviation specialist Michelle Moore. Edwina Pickles
Ms Moore is one of 21 specialist firefighting personnel from the US, and another 21 from Canada, to join NSW’s "marathon" effort to contain bushfires that now stretch along the entire coast and have, since July, burnt through two million hectares and destroyed more than 680 homes.
While NSW has sent firefighters to the US every year for the past two decades, it’s the first time the Rural Fire Service has made the call for a full-scale reciprocal response.
More - https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/it-smells-like-it-s-time-to-go-to-work-american-firefighters-arrive-in-sydney-20191208-p53hxt.html
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