2011 Annual Report

Pueblo InteragencyDispatch Center

narrativeThe 2011 season proved to be an active year in the Pueblo Interagency Zone; with a total of 499 fires and 258,633 acres burned. The zone hosted 12 different incident management teams supporting one type 1 incident, three type 2 incidents and eight type 3incidents. By March it was clear that the entire zone was in a drying trend that would last well into the fall months. Our 9 National Weather Service stations issued 246 red flag warnings with the month of June reporting 26 days. PIDC saw several cross region fires from Region 3 and Region 8 (New Mexico and Oklahoma) that burned into Region 2 (Colorado), this increased the coordination between GACCS and other regions dispatch centers (mainly Taos). Pueblo ran an expanded dispatch organization for 90 days and had 24 hour staffing for 70 days. In addition to supporting in- zone incidents, Pueblo mobilized 583 Overhead, 134 Engines, and 31 Crews out of area to support incidents throughout the country. The PIDC Aircraft desk supported 583 aviation requests for a total of 119 incidents. Record amounts of missions and retardant were pump out of the Pueblo Reload Tanker Base, JeffCO Tanker Base and 3 Seat Bases. Smokejumpers were pre-positioned at Fremont County Airport for 59 days and the Monument Helicopter flew for 177 hours dropping 42,231 gallons of water.

To assist PIDC with cooperator incidents we started a pilot program of assigning a Federal Dispatch Liaison to each incident that had no established federal jurisdiction. This assisted the counties with understanding the federal dispatch process. It provided greater communication, efficiency in ordering process and increased interaction with interagency partners. We will look at this as a standard in the future to improve the dispatch process. Another Beta test was with Colorado Division of Emergency Management (CO-DEM) in Putting cooperator resources directly into ROSS (for Non federal incidents) with them acting as a 4th tier dispatch center, as CO-DEM develops more follow up will be needed at a later time.

Our annual PIDC Zone Cooperator Dispatch workshop saw continued success with a great turnout of 27 participants whose experience ranged from Emergency Service Dispatcher, Training Coordinator, Communications and Emergency Managers from a makeup of 11 Different agencies and/or departments at the City, County, State and DOD level. We added more scenarios to this year’s event workshop based on feedback from last year’s workshop and see this as a continued event to improve knowledge on the Interagency Dispatch process. In June we saw one full time lead dispatcher retire (Wayne Baker) who was the primary Intelligence dispatcher and in November the Center Manager (Allyn Herrington) transfer to the Fort Collins Dispatch Center.

The season ended with new records for the number of incidents reported, as well as five year average records broken as it applies to The mobilization of overhead, crews, equipment, aircraft in addition to the fires and acres being recorded.

INCIDENT TOTALS

Incident Totals

A/C Down

Aircra

ft

Emerg

Stby

Hazmat

Law Enf

Med A

id

MIS

C / Adm

in

Campfir

e

ROSS Support

Red Flag W

arnin

gs

NatDisa

str

Presc

Fire

Pub Ass

t

Resc O

rder

SAR

Strc Fire

Trfc Coll

Veh Fire

Wild

fire

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

1

55

3 7

99

1949

171

96

246

2

148

32

153

7 5 11 6

688

INCIDENTS BY HOUR

0:001:00

2:003:00

5:006:00

7:008:00

9:0010:00

11:0012:00

13:0014:00

15:0016:00

17:0018:00

19:0020:00

21:0022:00

23:000

50

100

150

200

250

5 1 2 2 1

22

127

225

132121

147

120

139

157

138 139

97

8070

42

15 125

INCIDENT BY DAY

SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

245

275

296

247254

229

253

INCIDENTS BY AGENCY

BIA RGD SLD KSX PBX DDQ FWS NPS KSS PBS PSF RGF USFS PIDC1

10

100

1000

20

80

12

63

389

19

67

13

3

18

577

75

4

459

COLORADO INCIDENTS BY COUNTY

Alam

osa Cnty

Arapahoe Cnty

Baca Cnty

Bent Cnty

Chaffee Cnty

Conejos C

nty

Costilla

Cnty

Custer C

nty

Cheyenne Cnty

Denver Cnty

Douglas C

nty

Elbert

Cnty

El Paso

Cnty

Frem

ont Cnty

Huerfano Cnty

Jeffers

on Cnty

Lincoln

Cnty

Lake Cnty

Las Anim

as Cnty

Min

eral C

nty

Otero

Cnty

Park Cnty

Pueblo Cnty

Prowers

Cnty

Rio G

rande Cnty

Saguache Cnty

Teller C

nty0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

51

18

5

12

48 10

1 2

18

5

44

33

12

74

1 2

31

26

36

27

2 4 3

23

KANSAS INCIDENTS BY COUNTY

Butler C

nty

Chase Cnty

Cheyenne Cnty

Clark

Cnty

Clay Cnty

Coffey Cnty

Ellis C

nty

Ellsworth

Cnty

Hamilt

on Cnty

Harvey Cnty

Haskell

Cnty

Jackso

n Cnty

Linclo

n Cnty

Linn Cnty

Lyon Cnty

Mario

n Cnty

Meade Cnty

Morto

n Cnty

Ness Cnty

Osage Cnty

Ottawa Cnty

Phillip

s Cnty

Reno Cnty

Rice Cnty

Riley Cnty

Rooks Cnty

Sstaffo

rd Cnty

Stanto

n Cnty

Wabaunse

e Cnty0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

12

3 32

14

1 1 12

1

32

1 1 1

3 3

2 12

1

6

1 1 1 1 1 1

RED FLAG WARNINGS

Febuary March April May June September October November December0

5

10

15

20

25

8

16 16

18

23

54

1

87

2 21

21

6

3

13

8

6

2

5

2

56

5

3

12

1

32

3

1

6

4

11

6

1 1

6

22 21

211

2 21

21 1

Pueblo NWS Denver/Boulder NWS Dodge City NWS Wichita NWS Topeka NWS Goodland NWS

Hastings NWS Springfield NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill NWS

Fire and Acres Totals

FIRE AND ACRES BY MONTH

January Febuary March April May June July August September October November1

10

100

1000

10000

7

16

4865

36

75110

48

20

10

4

612

2,284.14

61,475.99 52,962.633,175.95

79,048.47

3,832.1 3,406.84

22.41

2,404.5

10.2

Fires Acres

HUMAN FIRES AND ACRES BY MONTH

January Febuary March April May June July August September October November1

10

100

1000

10000

7

16

48 5832

50

2615

97

4

612

2,284.14

61,475.9947,065.2

26,614.6515,486.67

1,329.62,403.5

20.61

2,401.3

10.2

Fires Acres

LIGHTNING FIRES AND ACRES BY MONTH

April May June July August September October1

10

100

1000

10000

74

25

84

33

11

4

5,897.4 6,561.3

63,561.8

2,502.5

1,003.34

1.83.3

Fires Acres

FIRES AND ACRES BY AGENCY

BIA BLM CNTY DDQ FWS NPS STATE USFS1

10

100

1000

10000

100000

9 8

154

4

17

2 2

76

983

187.65

128,850

2,200 2,593.9 2,287.6

178

22,423.83

28

57

2 2 2

1

7644.85

32,991 40,372

6,122.94

HUM AC LTN AC

PSICC – FIRES AND ACRES

Leadville R.D.

Salida R.D. San Carlos R.D.

Comanche R.D.

Cimarron R.D.

Pikes Peak R.D.

South Park R.D.

South Platte R.D.

1

10

100

1000

10000

4

9

45

3

23

7

13

1

5

13

6

1115 18

9.75

3,460.22

1,023.3

17,495.4

117.3

284.5

21.71

1.05

500.7

5,606.49

5.13.8

4.9

HUM AC LTN AC

RGF - FIRES AND ACRES

Conejos Peak R.D. Divide R.D. Saguache R.D.0

2

4

6

8

10

12

3

0

3

0.700000000000001

0

10.3

2

3

2

0.10.45 0.35

HUM AC LTN AC

RGD, SLV-PLC – FIRES AND ACRES

Royal Gorge F.O. San Luis Valley F.O.1

10

100

5

3

106.5581.1

27

1

44.75

HUM AC LTN AC

RESOURCE ORDERS

IN ZONE

Overhead in Zone1351 Request for 41 Incidents

USFS BLM FWS BIA NPS STATE NWS COUNTY UTF CANCEL PVT0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

605

167

10 11 2557

2

292

77100

4

Equipment In Zone290 Request for 34 Incidents

USFS BLM FWS BIA STATE COUNTY CANCEL PVT0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

55

103 2

23

167

26

4

Crews In Zone171 Request for 44 Incidents

USFS BLM FWS BIA NPS STATE COUNTY UTF CANCEL0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

70

13

5

20

2

21

73

30

RESOURCE ORDERS OUT

OF ZONE

Overhead Out Of Zone583 Request for 116 Incidents

USFS BLM FWS BIA NPS STATE NWS COUNTY UTF CANCEL0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

83

19

42

7 2

30

3

302

74

21

ENGINES OUT OF ZONE134 Request for 35 Incidents

USFS BLM FWS BIA STATE COUNTY UTF CANCEL0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

63 2 3

13

93

7 7

Crews Out Of Zone31 Request for 22 Incidents

USFS BLM FWS STATE COUNTY UTF0

2

4

6

8

10

12

11

1 1

10

7

1

AIRCRAFT ORDERS

Aircraft In Zone460 Request for 90 Incidents

AirTan

ker

SEAT

Lead

Plane

AirAttac

kSM

KJ

T1 Heli

T2 Heli

T3 Heli

Infrared

TFR Freq

TempTWR CX

UTF0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

45

54

32

68

1825

20

45

32

1924

1

53

24

Aircraft Out of Zone58 Request for 29 Incidents

AirTanker SEAT LeadPlane AirAttack SMKJ T1 Heli T2 Heli T3 Heli CX UTF0

5

10

15

20

25

22

6

9

5

1

43

6

1 1

Aircraft Request by AgencyIn Zone and Out of Zone518 Request for 119 Incidents

USFS BLM NPS DDQ ST CNTY0

50

100

150

200

250

300

28

6 121

2

253

4050

117

Out Zone IN Zone

AIRCRAFT

Helicopter 350JR FS Contract

Total Flight Time Logged (hrs)

Water Dropped (gals) External Cargo (lbs) Internal Cargo (lbs)1

10

100

1000

10000

177 hrs

42,231 gals27,408 lbs 34,207 lbs

Tanker Base Totals

Fremont County SEAT Base (1V6)

Buena Vista reload SEAT Base (AEJ)

La Junta reload SEAT Base (LHX)

Rocky Mtn Metro (BJC)

Pueblo reload Tanker Base (PUB)

1

10

100

1000

10000

100000

1000000

130512

778

53388

314361

186

1

13

45

181

9925

Foam (gal.) Retardant (gal.) Sorties

5 YEAR AVERAGES

5 Year Resource Average(2006-2010 )

CR- 89, OH-1480, EQ-341, AC -166

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

139 61 123 41 79202

2,670

1,114

1,727

620

1,268

1,931

693

286 367

115247

421392

58165

44174

518

CREW OVERHEAD EQUIPMENT AIRCRAFT

5 Year Incident Average(2006-2010)1,332 Incidents

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1600

1800

2000

1440

1199

1324 1284

1413

1799

5 Year Wildfires Average(2006-2010)

349 Wildfires for 82,809 Acres

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20111

10

100

1000

10000

100000

539305 398

267 238440

133,926

30,291

164,680

49,16435,983

239,235

Fires Acres

TRAVEL

Travel Arrangements 305 Travelers for $137,535.75

Febuary March April May June July August September October1

10

100

1000

10000

2

20

2

46

122

29 3250

2

616.40

5,690.20

950.30

20,414.70

50,323.60

11,277.29

25,185.29 22,415.87

662.10

Number of Travelers Cost per Month

ROSS SUPPORT

ROSS SUPPORT INCIDENTS

BIA BLM Cooperators FWS NPS STATE USFS0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

52

74

31

6 5

ROSS Support - Cooperators

ALX APX CFX DEX EPX FRX JEX PAX PUX0

10

20

30

40

50

60

2 13 2

7

1

48

1

9

209 LARGE FIRES

209 FIRES OF 2011Inc. Name Agency Start Date Cause Ac. Inc. Type

Smoky Hill Wind Farm KSX 29-Jan H 400 IC4

Sierra Vista PSF 19-Feb H 2042 IC4

Heinson Farm KSX 28-Feb H 1280 IC4

Bradshaw EPX 10-Mar H 462 IC4

Zweygardt KSX 16-Mar H 1800 IC4

Indian Gulch JEX 20-Mar H 1570 IMT1

North County Line KSX 21-Mar H 600 IC4

Stanton County KSX 22-Mar H 40000 IC4

Chelsea KSX 23-Mar H 600 IC4

Karval LCX 24-Mar H 12000 UNK

Burning Tree DGX 24-Mar H 1600 IC4

Steve Dillon KSX 25-Mar H 2000 IC4

220th KSX 2-Apr H 300 IC4

Willard Corner KSX 2-Apr H 350 IC4

11-00006 KSX 2-Apr H 900 IC4

Porters South KSX 3-Apr H 640 IC4

Haskell County KSX 3-Apr H 9600 IC4

East Kennedy Creek KSX 6-Apr H 1078 IC4

Fort Lyon BNX 7-Apr H 14000 IMT3

69th and Sylvia KSX 8-Apr L 400 IC5

Deer Trail Rd. KSX 9-Apr H 330 IC4

8 Road KSX 9-Apr H 350 IC4

Horse thief KSS 10-Apr H 2380 IC4

Jorden Springs KSX 10-Apr H 5000 IC4

Diptheria Hill KSX 11-Apr H 600 IC4

Deep Creek KSX 12-Apr H 630 IC5

East Fox Creek TSP 12-Apr H 2269 IC4

Carlson Rd KSX 18-Apr H 450 IC4

Sand Gulch PSF 26-Apr L 495 IMT3

Sand Hills KSX 29-Apr H 300 IC4

Avenue G KSX 29-Apr H 450 IC3

Salt Creek QUR 4-May H 1897 IC4

Tunner PSF 8-May H 17482 IMT3

209 FIRES OF 2011Inc. Name Agency Start Date Cause Ac. Inc. Type

Snyder Creek PSF 8-May H 242IMT3

Bear LSX 26-May L 6561IC3

Purgatoire LSX 30-May L 6140IMT2

Salt BNX 2-Jun L 4500IMT3

Navajo TLX 8-Jun H 56.9IC3

Bear Springs Trail FCQ 9-Jun L 35583 IMT3

Callie Marie FCQ 9-Jun L 9089IMT3

Shell Complex LSX 9-Jun L 12827IMT2

Duckett PSF 12-Jun H 4690IMT2

Young Hollow FCQ 29-Jun H 2200IC3

8 Mile Corner KSX 2-Jun H 600IC4

Mason PSF 3-Jul H 154IMT3

East Fork RGD 8-Jul L 2IC4

Dunne Ranch KSX 23-Jul L 1400IC4

Red Creek RGD 23-Jul L 0.1IC4

Withers Canyon PSF 23-Jul L 1044IC4

Castle GSP 30-Jul L 0.25IC4

Grassland KSX 3-Aug L 400IC4

Harden KSX 5-Aug H 1500IC4

Beaver Creek PSF 19-Aug H 100IMT3

Hesston Road KSX 23-Aug H 400IC4

Jasper RGF 27-Aug L 0.1IC4

Dunne Ranch South KSX 29-Aug H 400IC4

Little Fountain PSF 28-Aug L 0.5IC4

North Cow PSF 30-Aug L 0.1IC5

Sand Arroyo PSF 31-Aug L 506IC4

Shotgun RGF 9-Sep L 0.1IC4

Sugar Loaf RGD 2-Oct L 3IC4

Westfall Fire KSX 5-Oct H 400IC4

Zimmerman KSX 15-Oct H 2000IC4

2011 FINAL SITUATION REPORT

Dispatch Office Summary Situation Report 12/30/2011 - Pueblo Dispatch

Year-to-Date Wildland Fire Activity Rx Fire Activity

AgencyStateUnit

Human Lightning Total RxFires Acres Fires Acres Fires Acres Fires Acres

BIA KS-HOA 9 983 0 0 9 983 6 870BIA Total: 9 983 0 0 9 983 6 870BLM CO-RGD 5 106 27 45 32 151 9 407BLM CO-SLD 3 81 1 0 4 81 2 489BLM Total: 8 187 28 45 36 232 11 896

CNTY CO-BNX 2 14,000 2 4,500 4 18,500 0 0CNTY CO-CFX 3 4 1 0 4 4 0 0CNTY CO-CUX 0 1,280 0 0 0 1,280 0 0CNTY CO-DGX 3 1,600 0 0 3 1,600 1 0CNTY CO-EPX 10 475 2 0 12 475 0 0CNTY CO-FRX 11 63 5 2 16 65 1 0CNTY CO-HUX 2 1 11 222 13 223 0 0CNTY CO-JEX 42 1,612 5 1 47 1,613 1 130CNTY CO-LCX 1 12,000 0 0 1 12,000 0 0CNTY CO-LKX 3 0 1 0 4 0 0 0CNTY CO-LSX 14 14,509 10 31,787 24 46,296 3 0CNTY CO-PAX 9 6 6 0 15 6 1 0CNTY CO-PBX 27 5,843 10 346 37 6,189 6 0CNTY CO-PUX 6 5,005 3 100 9 5,105 0 0CNTY CO-TLX 10 122 3 3 13 125 0 0CNTY KS-KSX 53 80,199 8 7,600 61 87,799 1 0CNTY Total: 196 136,719 67 44,561 263 181,280 14 130DDQ CO-FCQ 4 2,200 2 40,372 6 42,572 10 7,284DDQ Total: 4 2,200 2 40,372 6 42,572 10 7,284

Year-to-Date Wildland Fire Activity Rx Fire Activity

AgencyStateUnit

Human Lightning Total Rx

Fires Acres Fires Acres Fires Acres Fires Acres

FWS CO-MVR 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 0

FWS CO-RFR 1 20 0 0 1 20 0 0

FWS KS-FLR 16 1,046 0 0 16 1,046 16 2,180

FWS KS-KIR 1 80 0 0 1 80 1 5

FWS KS-MCR 4 225 0 0 4 225 12 646

FWS KS-QUR 3 1,212 0 0 3 1,212 8 3,041

FWS Total: 26 2,585 0 0 26 2,585 37 5,872

NPS CO-FFP 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0

NPS CO-GSP 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

NPS KS-FLP 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 75

NPS KS-FSP 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5

NPS KS-TGP 2 2,288 0 0 2 2,288 2 3,265

NPS Total: 2 2,288 3 0 5 2,288 5 3,345

ST CO-PBS 2 178 1 0 3 178 6 133

ST Total: 2 178 1 0 3 178 6 133

USFS CO-PSF 66 4,917 69 6,122 135 11,039 28 2,995

USFS CO-RGF 6 11 7 0 13 11 12 1,844

USFS KS-PSF 3 17,495 0 0 3 17,495 1 15

USFS Total: 75 22,423 76 6,122 151 28,545 41 4,854

Grand Total: 322 167,563 177 91,100 499 258,663 130 23,384