2. 2009 started off with normal temperatures and precipitation, and as we continued into the end of February and early March the zone went to below normal precipitation and mild temps. This caused a period of activity in which the PSF started to staff weekends for suppression needs. During the same time Kansas saw a normal fire season with most of the acres occurring during February, March and April (over 49,000 acres). On March 31 st the zone received a 2 day weather event which started a wet cycle that continued well into summer, causing below fire danger and activity. This is the first time since 2000 that a type 1 or type 2 team was not used within the zone. The zone did have 65 Red Flag Warnings issued with March having 33 and February having 22 with the remaining in April, September and October. PIDC had a reduced number of lightning fires with ignitions occurring only from May through September, while we saw human ignitions occurring in every month of the year which is normal for the zone. As we compared our 5 year average we saw that 2009 was the slowest year we have experienced during the last five years (2004-2008) in several areas of mobilization. While we had a slow year with-in the zone we still accounted for almost 38% of the acres burned in the region. We also established an annual training workshop to teach dispatch operations to cooperators and agency personnel where we had 183 Dispatchers, Firefighters, Sheriff Personnel and Emergency Managers attend during the year.

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23. 16 Missions for 12,325 Gallons 2 Missions for 2,800 Gallons 3 Missions for 2,318 Gallons