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drewkittyIBBW - Wildfire Prevention & Response Plan - Great Park - Executive Summary
[A few days after Fire Prevention Operations, after I got through beating them up.]
Prevention
It is formally acknowledged that the prevention of unwanted wildfire is an extremely high priority for the Great Park. Therefore it is axiomatic that a 100% suppression, 100% cost recovery and where criminal fault is in question, 100% prosecution policy is in effect for all HCI (Human Caused Ignition) in or affecting the Great Park.
The law enforcement agency of primary jurisdiction in the Great Park is the State Parks, the successor organization to the now defunct California State Parks. State Parks is an armed law enforcement agency with power to arrest, control, bind and destroy. As such it is subject to frequent audit under the Cairo Protocol. It has been agreed that State Parks shall also be the primary fire suppression and medical first responder agency in the Great Park. Mutual aid agreements shall be maintained for applicable services, including but not limited to ambulance transport, orbital laser time and water supply and reimbursement.
At each of the entrances to the Great Park, a warning is posted. "Due to significant fire danger, Human Caused Ignition has been registered as an atrocious felony under the Cairo Protocol. Preemptive physical force, up to and including deadly force, is explicitly authorized and by entering this facilty consented to."
The powered vehicle traffic plan, the aerial route management plan (in cooperation with the Former Aviation Administration Air Route Protocol for Managed & Wilderness Areas), the trails plan and the faciliites maintenance plans have been evaluated in light of potential for fire risk.
A series of dips and temporary open-topped tanks have been designated while permanent helihydrants are designed and installed.
Every HCI in the Great Park shall be reported, investigated and audited. The explicit management goal is zero HCI per year understanding that meeting this standard may not always be possible.
Mitigation
A Great Parks Command Center (GPCC) has been designated. The GPCC shall meet all requirements for a Level I Life Safety Monitoring System Facility, including 2 by staffing, backup facility designation and ubquitious monitoring. The designated backup is Yosemite Natural Park.
The GPCC shall have dedicated on call orbital laser capability with a primary operator Always On Duty and at least two backup operators on four minute tac alert. Operator rules of engagement are audited by parallel organizations including San Francisco Spaceport (local) and MarsCorp (remote).
Unauthorized air traffic that does not respond to hail will be forced to land within six minutes of crossing the zone boundary. Landing may be survivable or post destruction so long as this standard is met. (This is a primary reason to have an orbital laser operator on duty.)
In parallel to this capability, the California Highway Patrol (another armed policing organization) shall maintain rapid-reaction capability within sixteen (16) minutes to any location within the Great Park by armed flyer. Mass stun and kinetics capability is required.
Control gates at each ground road entrance to the Great Park shall follow standard control, antivehicle barrier and disablement preparedness protocols.
State Parks enforcement personnel shall be capable of reaching any point in the road or trail network of the Great Park 'Code 2' within fourteen minutes. This shall be tested at least once a day and at least ten times per week, through the dispatching of phantom calls. Testing shall escalate in severity at each interrupt for real world response with a maximum of three 'byes' in a 30 day period before triggering external audit. In compliance with Cairo Protocol 422-a, enforcement personnel shall include persons with power to use force and arrest, but does not require arms.
Directed use of force shall follow the minimum force to meet objective standard of policing under the Cairo Protocol. Resistance may be met with escalation based on the knowing nature of the resistance. The use of stun devices and bots as part of the ubquitious monitoring protocol is reasonably assumed, but hereby clearly stated.
The use of coherent energy conduit ionization systems (so called "laser Taser") shall be limited to situations where human life is in immediate jeopardy given the totality of the circumstances.
Kinetics, including the deactivation of bot collision avoidance, remain the last resort and final mitigation standard for the use of directed deadly force.
Fire Response
One human piloted and seventeen remote control Type II lifters are available in the Great Park at all times, 24/7/365. Four of these lifters are designated heavy cargo lifters and are capable of firefighting water drops following MIST protocols.
Three dedicated Type I ground transport capsules configured for heavy firefighting are staged in appropriate locations within the Great Park. These capsules must stay within the capsule system but carry 40,000 liters of firefighting water and six Type VIII gyroscopic trail firebots each capable of carrying 400 liters of water.
Six Type III self movers, capable of limited capsule system movements, are configured as "off road" wheeled fire apparatus and can be controlled by robot or by human operator.
State Parks shall staff a minimum of four fully trained wildland firefighters on duty at all times, with a designated operational surge capacity of thirty full time, employee reserve and volunteer fire and rescue personnel. A fully trained firefighter for this purpose shall be a certified Air/Ground Drone Operator. At least one of the four shall be a certified Aerodyne Pilot (low altitude / nap of earth endorsement and cargo endorsement.) A second shall be on one hour callback. (Note: rescue hoist is not required but is recommended.)
Environmental Design Criterion
Wilderness designated areas of the Great Park shall be maintained in accordance with the natural burn cycle, prescribed (authorized) fire according to the Great Park Controlled Burn Protocol, and minimal fuels treatments appropriate to the wilderness. Therefore, it is incumbent on Great Park to maintain shaded fuel breaks, fire breaks, control lines (both ad hoc and natural) and anchor points sufficient to keep any wilderness area fire from leaving the wilderness area.
Natural preserve designated areas of the Great Park must establish additional and appropriate controls during 1) prescribed burn planned events and 2) anticipated or reasonable expected risk of HCI events. For an example of the latter, 4 July continues to be a local holiday which poses risk of use of inappropriate fireworks.
Inholdings, maintenance areas, tunnel complexs and facilities of the Great Park shall be maintained to the highest fire prevention and mitigation standards. These shall be reviewed annually.
Lightning ignition shall be prevented by the use of tree lightning cable arrestor systems; the implementation of a Lightning Plan when dry thunderstorms are forecast, and as appropriate the use of orbital static dissipation lasing. (This is a primary reason for the requirement to have a qualified orbital laser operator on duty.)
In any location where human occupancy could reasonably exceed four (4) persons, a designated Safety Zone must be established.
The Great Park is authorized to issue Closure Orders should unusual or extraordinary circumstances or events pose hazards that cannot be mitigated in any other way.
Acknowledgements:
The Great Park would like to particularly thank the State Parks system, the Orbital Lasers Consortium for a dedicated use agreement at significantly reduced rates, the California HP, the Prescribed Fire Coalition, The Anderson Group, the San San Public Financing Coalition, the Sierra Peninsula Open Space Santa Cruz Land Trust and the hard work of generations of dedicated public park advocates and foresters.
[A few days after Fire Prevention Operations, after I got through beating them up.]
Prevention
It is formally acknowledged that the prevention of unwanted wildfire is an extremely high priority for the Great Park. Therefore it is axiomatic that a 100% suppression, 100% cost recovery and where criminal fault is in question, 100% prosecution policy is in effect for all HCI (Human Caused Ignition) in or affecting the Great Park.
The law enforcement agency of primary jurisdiction in the Great Park is the State Parks, the successor organization to the now defunct California State Parks. State Parks is an armed law enforcement agency with power to arrest, control, bind and destroy. As such it is subject to frequent audit under the Cairo Protocol. It has been agreed that State Parks shall also be the primary fire suppression and medical first responder agency in the Great Park. Mutual aid agreements shall be maintained for applicable services, including but not limited to ambulance transport, orbital laser time and water supply and reimbursement.
At each of the entrances to the Great Park, a warning is posted. "Due to significant fire danger, Human Caused Ignition has been registered as an atrocious felony under the Cairo Protocol. Preemptive physical force, up to and including deadly force, is explicitly authorized and by entering this facilty consented to."
The powered vehicle traffic plan, the aerial route management plan (in cooperation with the Former Aviation Administration Air Route Protocol for Managed & Wilderness Areas), the trails plan and the faciliites maintenance plans have been evaluated in light of potential for fire risk.
A series of dips and temporary open-topped tanks have been designated while permanent helihydrants are designed and installed.
Every HCI in the Great Park shall be reported, investigated and audited. The explicit management goal is zero HCI per year understanding that meeting this standard may not always be possible.
Mitigation
A Great Parks Command Center (GPCC) has been designated. The GPCC shall meet all requirements for a Level I Life Safety Monitoring System Facility, including 2 by staffing, backup facility designation and ubquitious monitoring. The designated backup is Yosemite Natural Park.
The GPCC shall have dedicated on call orbital laser capability with a primary operator Always On Duty and at least two backup operators on four minute tac alert. Operator rules of engagement are audited by parallel organizations including San Francisco Spaceport (local) and MarsCorp (remote).
Unauthorized air traffic that does not respond to hail will be forced to land within six minutes of crossing the zone boundary. Landing may be survivable or post destruction so long as this standard is met. (This is a primary reason to have an orbital laser operator on duty.)
In parallel to this capability, the California Highway Patrol (another armed policing organization) shall maintain rapid-reaction capability within sixteen (16) minutes to any location within the Great Park by armed flyer. Mass stun and kinetics capability is required.
Control gates at each ground road entrance to the Great Park shall follow standard control, antivehicle barrier and disablement preparedness protocols.
State Parks enforcement personnel shall be capable of reaching any point in the road or trail network of the Great Park 'Code 2' within fourteen minutes. This shall be tested at least once a day and at least ten times per week, through the dispatching of phantom calls. Testing shall escalate in severity at each interrupt for real world response with a maximum of three 'byes' in a 30 day period before triggering external audit. In compliance with Cairo Protocol 422-a, enforcement personnel shall include persons with power to use force and arrest, but does not require arms.
Directed use of force shall follow the minimum force to meet objective standard of policing under the Cairo Protocol. Resistance may be met with escalation based on the knowing nature of the resistance. The use of stun devices and bots as part of the ubquitious monitoring protocol is reasonably assumed, but hereby clearly stated.
The use of coherent energy conduit ionization systems (so called "laser Taser") shall be limited to situations where human life is in immediate jeopardy given the totality of the circumstances.
Kinetics, including the deactivation of bot collision avoidance, remain the last resort and final mitigation standard for the use of directed deadly force.
Fire Response
One human piloted and seventeen remote control Type II lifters are available in the Great Park at all times, 24/7/365. Four of these lifters are designated heavy cargo lifters and are capable of firefighting water drops following MIST protocols.
Three dedicated Type I ground transport capsules configured for heavy firefighting are staged in appropriate locations within the Great Park. These capsules must stay within the capsule system but carry 40,000 liters of firefighting water and six Type VIII gyroscopic trail firebots each capable of carrying 400 liters of water.
Six Type III self movers, capable of limited capsule system movements, are configured as "off road" wheeled fire apparatus and can be controlled by robot or by human operator.
State Parks shall staff a minimum of four fully trained wildland firefighters on duty at all times, with a designated operational surge capacity of thirty full time, employee reserve and volunteer fire and rescue personnel. A fully trained firefighter for this purpose shall be a certified Air/Ground Drone Operator. At least one of the four shall be a certified Aerodyne Pilot (low altitude / nap of earth endorsement and cargo endorsement.) A second shall be on one hour callback. (Note: rescue hoist is not required but is recommended.)
Environmental Design Criterion
Wilderness designated areas of the Great Park shall be maintained in accordance with the natural burn cycle, prescribed (authorized) fire according to the Great Park Controlled Burn Protocol, and minimal fuels treatments appropriate to the wilderness. Therefore, it is incumbent on Great Park to maintain shaded fuel breaks, fire breaks, control lines (both ad hoc and natural) and anchor points sufficient to keep any wilderness area fire from leaving the wilderness area.
Natural preserve designated areas of the Great Park must establish additional and appropriate controls during 1) prescribed burn planned events and 2) anticipated or reasonable expected risk of HCI events. For an example of the latter, 4 July continues to be a local holiday which poses risk of use of inappropriate fireworks.
Inholdings, maintenance areas, tunnel complexs and facilities of the Great Park shall be maintained to the highest fire prevention and mitigation standards. These shall be reviewed annually.
Lightning ignition shall be prevented by the use of tree lightning cable arrestor systems; the implementation of a Lightning Plan when dry thunderstorms are forecast, and as appropriate the use of orbital static dissipation lasing. (This is a primary reason for the requirement to have a qualified orbital laser operator on duty.)
In any location where human occupancy could reasonably exceed four (4) persons, a designated Safety Zone must be established.
The Great Park is authorized to issue Closure Orders should unusual or extraordinary circumstances or events pose hazards that cannot be mitigated in any other way.
Acknowledgements:
The Great Park would like to particularly thank the State Parks system, the Orbital Lasers Consortium for a dedicated use agreement at significantly reduced rates, the California HP, the Prescribed Fire Coalition, The Anderson Group, the San San Public Financing Coalition, the Sierra Peninsula Open Space Santa Cruz Land Trust and the hard work of generations of dedicated public park advocates and foresters.
