with a 50-gallon tank. “Each vehicle has a reversible
pump that is capable of drawing water from a stock tank found in every pasture. In addition, the fi re department either lends us a truck or furnishes one with a crew. Other fi re fi ghting equipment at the site is a dozer, maintainer and hand tools that include flappers, axes and shovels. We start each piece of mechanical equipment the day before we burn to make sure that it is operating properly.” “We try to maintain a coopera-
tive effort with the county and city offi cials,” Frank explains. “They are invited to participate in our prescribed fi res so they can learn about behavior of range fi res and how to control them. The more ex- posure, the better trained they will be for fi ghting wildfi res and the better they will understand that prescribed burns are benefi cial and can be done safely.” The weather station is called a
few days prior to the planned burn to determine whether forecasted conditions are suitable. The day of the burn, the weather people are asked to call one of the Prices if they see chances of abrupt changes that may make burning hazardous. When an adverse weather change is predicted, the prescribed burn is immediately extinguished. “In addition to working closely
with the weather station, several of the crew members carry portable weather instruments and measure wind velocity, air temperature and humidity on a regular basis,” says Sims. “We want wind velocity to be from 10 to 20 miles per hour including gusts. Humidity should be between 20 and 40 percent. We also watch the direction in which the wind is moving the fi re. If the fi re starts moving in the wrong di-
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