 This next section is going to cover an aspect of our jobs that has been gaining attention over the past few years. The problems we face in the wildland-urban interface are rapidly becoming more and more complex. To deal with this increase in complexity, many urban areas have implemented some interesting and effective cooperative agreements with local municipal fire departments, which include shared radio frequencies and cross-training. To get us thinking about the various safety concerns when wildland fire approaches an urban area, let's go back to the rough diamond fire in Idaho. You're about to see a clip from another operational briefing that was addressing the threat of fire on the historic town of Silver City. After viewing this clip, you'll be asked to get into your groups and talk about three tools that are available to you for use in these situations. In your incident response pocket guide, you will find the urban wildland watch-out situations, the structure protection checklist, and the structure assessment checklist. You can relate the items on these lists to the rough diamond fire, or more importantly, you should relate them to urban interface issues that you face in your local area. The point of this exercise is to get you familiar with these tools and understand how they relate to issues in your area. My name's Dale Anderson. I'm currently the structure protection group in charge of the structure protection group for Silver City community, and we're working on the rough diamond incident, and we're going to give a briefing here shortly, and we need a kind of a brief overview from Elden Alexander, who was part of the tactical operation that worked the previous day and early that morning, and Elden, if you could give us a current situation update off these maps here, and then we'll kind of continue from there. Okay. Dale said my name's Elden Alexander. I was an initial attack IC-Type-3 on this fire. During the transition, I've been kind of attached to Division Alpha on this south side of the fire, and come down here to help you guys get a little idea of what's happening up here on the fire. Currently, the fire is being held along the Silver City road here around Scotch-Bob drainage. You guys drill that's your access into this area. Where the fire line leaves the road here, we have hand crews constructing fire line up towards Bald Mountain. Bald Mountain has been prepped with a dozer line coming up from the road also, and with every retardant being laid in this little saddle right here. The dozer line made it as far as it could around Bald Mountain, and that's why the hand crews are starting up towards it. We're getting a little activity on this side, some torching, making some runs, but starting to turn around itself and bring it back into black, not a real big concern right now. The other high activity area is up here by Little Sugar Loaf, and you can see it kind of goes off this map a little bit with the perimeter. It's down in this drainage below Little Sugar Loaf. It's made it run up in that area. Those are the two hot points right now. What's the weather outlook for the afternoon? Yeah, I got max temps, 86 to 89 degrees relative humidity, 8% to 13% valley winds, up to 13 miles per hour. Rich Top winds, Northwest, 10 to 20 miles with gusts to 25 miles an hour. So that's going to throw some influence on the fire behavior out there. What we're going to do next is get a little overview from Bruce Alcott, who is our structure protection expert that we brought in with the, he's kind of our task force leader for our five engines that we brought in. And Bruce, if you could kind of give us a little information on what you guys have already assessed as far as the structures, communities, hazards, risks, anything related to that, it would be great. We've been up and had a pretty good view of the fire. We've got quite a distance between us and them, which gives us a little bit of preparation time. For our personnel, we anticipate that if there is a fire to encroach on Silver Siege, it will be coming from up this direction or maybe in from this side a little bit. So what we'll be doing is focusing on those structures that are on that outer perimeter there. So our crews will be looking at that. Some of the things we need to evaluate obviously are, we may have stored fuels here. We have some propane tanks that folks use. We may have stored fuel oil, gasoline, all those kinds of things. So that creates a hazard for us and we'll have identified those and know where they are and what we need to do to mitigate those. Water supply, as is indicated, primarily our suppression water will come from what we've brought with us and what we've got on the tenders that have been brought in to support us. We also have, however, established three different drafting points off of the creek here where we've got enough water that we can pump out of and use that to augment our supplies and refill apparatus if we can. The keys here, obviously, as a structure protection, we have to look at what our capabilities are and be realistic about what we can accomplish. Our goal is to prevent it from getting those structures. So we're assessing the ground fuels that are around those structures to make sure we can get away from them and to keep the structures from getting involved in the first place. We feel like, because of the nature of the fuels that are out there, we've got a pretty good option to, should it come in from this direction, we may be able to actually kind of hurt the fire up around that way by doing some back burning and doing some other things that will help there. So that's what we're assessing there. From a safety standpoint, all of our apparatus needs to recognize that we've got a key point. Here's where we're headquartered. We've got one way out from this part of town, and that's across this little bridge down here, so we need to make sure we keep that access clear. There is another access road that comes in here just on the other side of that bridge, and we keep all of our apparatus need to be stay on the roads where they can get out quickly. We won't be putting them up in here. We've identified that just down the street and across is the, down where the park is here is an area that we could seek refuge or have to. That's a safety factor for all of our personnel to know. Good. But we still have residences here on location, local residents folks. And there's a system in place now for if we need to do a heads up and an evacuation, then the county sheriff from Hawaii is going to basically handle that. You guys had a chance to go out and take a look at it, and we'll go ahead and put that order in so we can get the supplement on the hose and some mark tree pumps and that type of stuff and kind of basically go from there. And then our early warning system will be basically on what the fire is doing, of course the visual indicators, the verbal indicators over the radio, so make sure all the frequencies are dialed in accordingly, and we've double checked that so we know that's online. Our locals are pretty much dialed in on keeping in touch with us, so we've got those contacts made. Now for information standpoint, we do have information officer John Skinner on location here and he's maintaining contact with our primary information folks. And we didn't let news media come in this afternoon because it was going into the heat of the day but they'll be in first thing in the morning. So when that starts happening, you'll kind of have a clue of what's going on with that. And then also when you get a chance individually to make sure you look at your IAP for your assignments for the day, it's also going to include the medical plan because we have a process set up to cover the medical and then also it has attachments on the maps, safety message, it gives the fire behavior and the weather updates. It's got the communication plan in there so double check your frequencies on your radios and it's got the organizational list and the division assignment. So with that, any other questions? Other than that, I think we can continue our work and kind of go from there. Good, thanks. With the introduction of so many new firefighters this year, it's extremely important to communicate with other firefighters on the fire line. We really can't afford to assume that people are experienced enough to know what's going on out there, especially in an urban, wildland interface situation.