Video | Presentation slides | (Q&A session responses coming soon)

Fire Hazard Assessment and Abatement – Roadmap for the Future is a webinar from the Wildland Fire and Fuel Community of Practice.

The Wildfire Act and regulation provide prescriptive statutory obligations for people that create fire hazards resulting from their industrial activity. Qualified holders operate under the professional reliance model and must ensure they apply appropriate due diligence standards to their fire hazard assessment and abatement (FHAA) policy and operations — and that they operate within scope.

The Forest Practices Board (FPB) has completed a special investigation, audits, and other works related to FHAA, with mixed findings related to results, understanding of FHAA obligations and legislative intent/interpretation. This webinar will focus on providing clarity, describing governments strategic the roadmap moving forward, and how FHAA links into wildfire resiliency and forest landscape planning.

Presenter(s):

  • Pete Laing, RFT, superintendent, fuel management, BC Wildfire Service (BCWS).

Laing has more than 30 years of prevention, preparedness, and wildfire response experience, and is a Certified Type 1 incident commander, operations section chief, liaison, and Type 2 prescribed burn boss.