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Office Address:
USDA Forest Service
Sidney R. Yates
Federal Building 201
14th Street,
SW Washington, DC
20024
Website:
www.fs.fed.us
Mailing Address:
1400 Independence Discussing and Requesting Information about
Ave, SW
Washington, DC Wildfire
20250-1111
Phone Number: July 31, 2019
(800) 832-1355
To: Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, INC.
1100 Fortress St. Ste. 2
Chico, CA 95973

Dear U.S. Firestorm Wildfire Biologist,

I am contacting you today to ask whether it would be possible for you to provide
information on your company's research on wildfire. I hope you can answer my
questions . and correct my point of view. I am working on a report on wildfire,
and in the process of finding information, I saw your advertisement about
introducing the land management and fire professionals which may be just what
my research needs. Therefore, I would like to get some help from you that may
be appropriate for our needs by expressing my opinions and raise my questions.

Hazardous Fuels Reduction

On the fire safety page of your website, I saw that you mentioned the hazardous
fuels reduction. But on the page that you said you will control the damage of
wildfire by helping the householders to remove part of vegetation cover, such as
reducing weeds and removing large trees. But in my point of view that if the
vegetation is not completely removed, even a general-scale wildfire is enough to
expand outward with small amounts of trees and weeds as fuel. Therefore, I
would like to ask if the vegetation around the households in the area susceptible
to wildfire can be completely removed, and only the vegetation is kept far away
from the house. Can this effectively reduce the impact of wildfire on residents? If
this is effective, then what problems will we encounter when implementing this
solution?

Fire Prevention and Patrol

On the other section, you have showed your plan for fire prevention and patrol. I
think this move is the best way to effectively reduce artificial wildfire, so I am
very interested in it. According to the information I have collected, nearly 90% of
wildfires are caused by humans, so we need to strengthen the regulations and
prevention of people using fire in the forest. However, if a large area of patrol is
required, it will require a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.
Then, which small areas should we choose to patrol? If there is a place where
people often go, then once a fire is made, it will be discovered immediately, so a
place with few people should be more likely to prone to wildfire, but some places
with few people are really inconvenient for patrol, so how do you grasp this
balance of patrol?

Thank you for your consideration.

Regards,
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