SAN ANDREAS
- The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)
will be conducting live fire training. This training is designed to
instruct fireline supervisors from around the State in proper techniques
to plan and conduct complex firing operations during wildland fire
suppression operations.
Students
will be taught how to apply fire to fight fire. They will learn the
proper techniques to ignite and control fire that is lit outside the
perimeter of an approaching wildland fire. This technique is utilized
to starve the wildfire of available vegetation, thus aiding in
suppression efforts.
The
training will occur at Crook Ranch in Groveland. The Ranch is located
on a portion of the Rim Truck fuel break and the communities of
Groveland, Big Oak Flat, and Pine Mountain Lake subdivision will benefit
from the training burn by reducing the fuel load and maintaining an
open, park-like condition. The area was also chosen to be burned to
treat Medusahead an aggressive noxious weed identified by Tuolumne
County Agriculture Department.
