 A fire behaviour analyst is a person trained to predict the behaviour of fire. They use data on factors such as the weather, slope, aspect, vegetation types, fuel levels and fuel moisture contents in order to be able to predict fire spread and direction, fire line intensity and spotting potential. This is done for all wildfires in Victoria. Fire behaviour analysts can also be used for advice on land burning activities. F-Bounds work regularly in the State Control Centre and in IMTs. In the SEC, an F-Bound is involved in preparation of statewide preparedness products, statewide weather monitoring, initial fire behaviour predictions for emerging incidents, providing F-Bound support and backup to IMT-based F-Bands, vetting Phoenix Fire Map predictions across the State. When located in an IMT, an F-Bands involved in preparation of local preparedness products and scenarios, local weather monitoring, fire behaviour predictions for incidents within the IMT area and vetting Phoenix Fire Map predictions within the IMT area. If you have local F-Bands in your region, you can deploy them immediately without any drama. It would be good if you let the SEC F-Bound desk know when you do this because it avoids confusion and duplication. We know what the F-Bands in the SEC doing predictions for the same fire as local predictions. F-Bands are generally only allocated to level 3 incidents. Some of the key products available include isochrone maps, potential impact zone maps, fire behaviour estimates, statewide fire behaviour maps and Phoenix Fire Map predictions. Isochrone maps contain estimates of the location of a fire front at various times in the future. The time steps are dependent on the incident. A potential impact zone map has a single boundary that outlines the area likely to be impacted by a fire within a defined time frame. This includes all areas that are likely to have fire within them or may be subject to EMBRA tech. These maps are often used for media warning generation and publication in newspapers. The fire behaviour estimates report is produced daily during the fire season. This report estimates the fire line intensity every hour for the next two hours for a selected set of localities across the state. This report can be found on the Fire Weather page of FireWeb. A similar product is produced for planned burning. It can also be found on the Fire Weather page. Statewide fire behaviour maps show the expected fire behaviour in hourly steps for the next seven days across the state of Victoria. These are designed to inform fire managers of the likely fire intensities of going fires or the potential for new fires to run. Phoenix Fire Map runs every time a fire is reported into FireWeb. This includes all DSE fires and CFA grass and scrub fires. An F-Band then vets the output and makes changes to the input data if necessary. Once a prediction is complete to the F-Band satisfaction, the output is released to all other incident management staff. If the prediction isn't vetted by an F-Band within 30 minutes, it is released as an unverified prediction. These outputs can be viewed from the Fire Weather page on FireWeb or by using the FireMap application. In summary, F-Bands work regularly in the State Control Centre and at IMTs. They are a resource that can add value to your incident management team, both before and during an incident. The service is here to help you. Please make use of it.