Wildfire response All key elements of the exercise, from
planning to logistics, and exercise management to software performance, were analysed by the project team. During the extremely positive and productive meeting, the team identified some key recommendations for future exercises that will be incorporated into a final exercise report, to be published later in 2017.
Quality assurance
Organisation of successive national exercises has enabled the IGNIS partners to raise the profile of the project and progressively improve the exercises and tools. Feedback gathered from the participants of each exercise has been disseminated directly into the design and delivery of subsequent exercises. A key contribution to the quality assurance
(QA) process has been the involvement of real life incident commanders in the exercises from outside the project team. The other key element of the QA process was the formal assessment of the national exercises by the IGNIS Project Advisory Board, an independent panel of experts from Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Spain and the UK. IGNIS partners believe that the end result
is four large wildfire scenarios that are suitable for training commanders in how to deal with and respond to different situations and challenges.
Project conclusion
An international conference in Marseille, France, on 4 December 2017 will conclude the IGNIS project. During this event, the project partners were to present the final results, including a report on the international exercise, a European glossary of terminology for wildfire training and simulation, and plans for an online simulation resources centre. This resources centre will be a key legacy
of the project, providing an international reference resource on simulation training for wildfires. The centre will also facilitate ongoing networking and collaboration to ensure the continual development and improvement of this innovative approach to wildfire incident command training. While the final conference will provide an
opportunity to showcase the work completed during the project, the partners are keen to use it as a springboard for the future. More specifically, the IGNIS partners plan to use the final conference as a platform to facilitate discussion and debate regarding the future development of simulation training for wildfires and other types of emergency incidents
Robert Stacey is project officer for learning and development at Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service. For more information, view page 5
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