Or. Admin. Code § 629-165-0005

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 11, November 1, 2024

Section 629-165-0005 - Emergency Fires

As defined in OAR 629-165-0000(4), an emergency fire is a fire that due to the specific circumstances of the fire, requires more suppression resources to control and extinguish the fire than the district can reasonably provide within the approved district budget based on declared fire season resource levels, whether or not the fire occurs during a declared fire season. The following are examples of emergency fires:

(1) A fire occurs in August, when the district is at full strength. The pre-planned dispatch for the fire at this time and place (as an example) specifies two engines, six persons and a district dozer. If these forces are inadequate to suppress the fire and additional forces must be hired, it becomes an emergency fire;

(2) If a fire in the same location as in section (1) occurs in February, when the readiness resources are substantially less, the district must still suppress the fire. Hired resources from cooperators will normally be used to supplement limited district resources. The fire becomes an emergency fire when hired and regular district resources exceed the resources equivalent to the fire season pre-planned dispatch of two engines, six persons and a dozer;

(3) An emergency fire situation may occur when there are multiple fires in a district, even though none of the fires individually have exceeded the planned dispatch level, if the total effort of all the fires exceeds the district's budgeted resource level. This situation most frequently occurs during and after widespread lightning events. Additional resources, hired to supplement regular forces in the described multiple fire situation, are emergency fire resources eligible for payment from the OFLPF.

Or. Admin. Code § 629-165-0005

DOF 3-2013, f. 12-9-13, cert. ef. 1-1-14

Stat. Auth.: ORS 321, 477 & 477.770

Stats. Implemented: ORS 183.335, 183.341, 477.440 - 477.460 & 477.750 - 477.775