Understand updates to the BC fire hazard assessment and abatement guide and how to help build resilient forests and mitigate wildfire risks in a new webinar from Forest Professionals British Columbia (FPBC).
Ryan Hall, RFT, a prevention officer with the BC Wildfire Service (BCWS), outlines the role, intent, and limitations of the new guide, as well as how to navigate it and complete a fire hazard assessment in Updated Fire Hazard Assessment and Abatement Guidance in BC — What You Need to Know.
The Wildfire Act requires anyone conducting an industrial activity or a prescribed activity on forest or grassland, or within a kilometre of it, to conduct fire hazard assessment. BCWS updated the guide recently to assist with that.
Learning outcomes:
- understand the role, intent, and limitations of government fire hazard assessment and abatement guidance documents;
- navigate and the defined hazard assessment and abatement strategy for completing fire hazard assessments (i.e., identifying values, determining risk, evaluating fuel hazard and abatement need); and
- understand the role of an effective fire hazard assessment and abatement as a frontline strategy for cultivating landscape resilience and mitigating cumulative wildfire risk.
When: Wednesday, November 19
Time: 1–2:30 p.m.
Cost: free
Presenters: Ben Boghean, RFT, and Ryan Hall, RFT.
Boghean is a predictive services officer with BC Wildfire Services (BCWS) and a Type 1 Fire Behavior Analyst since 2019. He has observed how varying fuel conditions influence wildfire behavior across BC’s diverse landscapes, contributing to the response on some of the province’s most devastating fires.
Hall is a wildfire prevention officer with BCWS, working in provincial operations for fuel management and specializing in fire hazard assessment and abatement.
Pete Laing, RFT, superintendent of fuel management with BCWS, is a panelist for this event.
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