Upcoming events

             

National Wildland Urban Interface Council Workshop, Nov. 3-4, Washington, D.C., hosted by the National Association of Home Builders and organized by the International Code Council. A coalition of organizations and agencies, including IAWF, will meet for the first time to work together on a collaborate approach to combat the loss of life and damage caused by wildland fire adjacent to urban locales. The formation of the NWUIC is a recommendation of the National Blue Ribbon Panel Report on WUI fire, of which IAWF was a member. For more information, see www.iccsafe.org/gr/NWUIC.

6th International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Nov. 15-18, 2010, Coimbra, Portugal. Look for IAWF and the International Journal of Wildland Fire (published by CSIRO for IAWF) at the conference. See www.adai.pt/icffr/2010.

11th Wildland Fire Safety Summit, “Promoting the Story of Wildland Fire Safety from the Local to the Global,” April 5-7, 2011, Missoula, Mont., at the Hilton Garden Inn. The Safety Summit is the premier international wildland fire safety event that provides a sustained emphasis on the critical topic of wildland fire safety. Since 1997, this has been the place for members of the international wildland fire community to focus on safety, discuss significant events and trends in safety, promote best practices in safety training and operations, reveal safety-related research findings, and explore new approaches to safety. This year's theme, “Promoting the Story of Wildland Fire Safety,” highlights the importance of story and narrative in safety training, operations, research and organizational learning. “From the local to the global” calls forth the story of safety from the entire spectrum of the global wildland fire community: from the individual, the crew, the incident, the local community, the agency, the region, the state, the nation, the continent, to the entire hemisphere. Keynote speakers will include Dave Thomas on storytelling and organizational learning and Rob Palmer on “golden hour” response. The opening keynote speaker will be Dr. Gordon Graham, internationally recognized expert on risk management, including firefighter safety and organizational performance. He also will conduct training workshops in conjunction with the Summit. Visit www.iawfonline.org/missoula2011 for more information.