UE Forest Fires, risks and management - Level 3

Integrated fire management: fighting means, restoration, development. This course is based on the French operational method of fire management from the preparation and fight to stop a fire (short term) to the restoration of ecosystems and their management (medium and long terms). The French firefighting strategy will be presented and compared to other international strategies. The objective of this course is to prepare for a firefight and the restoration and development to be carried out following the fire. The aim is to learn how to prepare a response to fires, by developing a fire fighting strategy in cooperation with all the public services involved in firefighting.

The analysis and decision-making tools will be presented, including environmental indicators (topography, structures, landscapes, ecosystems), and issues and vulnerability. The different intervention strategies, on fire outbreaks or established fires and according to the contexts, taking into account different international cultures, will be developed and worked on in tutorials. The means of the French civil security will be presented and work on a training simulator and on images and data of past fires will allow analyzing the success factors in the fight. Site visits, in particular to the civil security air base in Nîmes, schools and operational coordination and decision-making centers, will illustrate the theoretical lessons. The teaching of ecosystem restoration and development techniques will include fuel management.

Prerequisites : UE Forest Fires, risks and management - levels 1 and 2.

Speakers : C HELY (EPHE), French Civil Protection members, F GIROUD (CEREN), R SAVAZZI (ONF)