1. Wildfire andAir Quality Response 2012 and Beyond Pete Lahm Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management Washington, D.C. WESTAR Fall Business Meeting October 30, 2012

2. An Evolving Program: Scope Public Health Fire Personnel Exposure Transportation Safety

3. Interagency Wildfire Air Quality Response National Effort National Effort Cadre of Air Resource Advisors (ARA) Developed Cadre of Air Resource Advisors (ARA) Developed Range of Skills (ARA 1, 2 & 3) Range of Skills (ARA 1, 2 & 3) FS, BLM, FWS, NPS, Contractor FS, BLM, FWS, NPS, Contractor Coordinated and Assigned via FS Smoke Lead Coordinated and Assigned via FS Smoke Lead Multi-tiered Approach Multi-tiered Approach Incident Level Incident Level State Level Program Efforts State Level Program Efforts Area Command Area Command Geographic Area Coordination Centers Geographic Area Coordination Centers Regional Wildfire Decision Support Center Regional Wildfire Decision Support Center

4. Interagency Wildfire Air Quality Response Incident specific forecasting & modeling Incident specific forecasting & modeling Monitoring – Deployment, Interpretation and Dissemination Monitoring – Deployment, Interpretation and Dissemination Community Community Base Camp Base Camp Transportation Safety Alerts and Response Transportation Safety Alerts and Response Cohesive Messaging - Public and Partners: Cohesive Messaging - Public and Partners: Area-wide Area-wide Multi-incident Multi-incident Coordinated messaging Coordinated messaging Multi-state/agency modeling & forecasting Multi-state/agency modeling & forecasting

5. 2012 Wildfire Air Quality Response Incidents: County Line Fire - FL Dad Fire - NC High Park Fire - CO Fontenelle - WY Halstead & Mustang in ID Smoke Program Coordination: AZ NM OR MT WA

6. 2012 Wildfire Air Quality Response Area Command: SW ID Decision Support Center: Region 2 Area-wide Geographic Area Coordination Center: North Zone CA ***Many incidents without direct ARA support issued smoke information and warnings to local affected public and addressed transportation impacts (Inciweb.org)Inciweb.org

7. Monitoring: -15 E-Samplers PM2.5 Tied to GOES available from NIFC -Data available on-line -More in 2013 Many Forests, Refuges and Parks have monitors  EPA???

8. Issues Display and Interpretation of Monitoring Data Communications and Coordination – Who, Where, When and What Message – Weekends Planning for Wildfire Air Quality Response 2013

9. A Few Challenges Monitoring – Who does it and for how long? - Equipment Support (FLM, State, EPA)? - FRM or not? Availability of data? Contact Points- -EPA, Tribes, State, District, County, Health Dept., NWS-WFO, etc. ARA Recruitment - FLM’s and contractors now -EPA??? State Agency Personnel???

10. A Few Challenges Messaging/Forecasting: -Use of Short-term (1-3 hr) Impacts: Wildfire Guide (CA, ID, Navajo Nation) AK & CO MT, NM OR Canada 3 level AQHI designed for Wildfire -Use of Long-term (24 hr) Impacts: Current AQI Proposed AQI WA, NM, MT (visual range role) -WA, NM, MT

11. Training Efforts Air Resource Advisor- Air Resource Advisor- JFSP-supported Training, March 2013 in Seattle Smoke Management and Air Quality for Land Managers – Online 90 minute course Wildfire and Air Quality Decision-making – Wildfire and Air Quality Decision-making – 4-hr online modular course under development 4-hr online modular course under development

12. Thank you! Questions, Comments, Discussion AND IAWF/NWCG SmoC Fall 2013 International Smoke Symposium Pete Lahm 202-205-1084 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or a part of an individual's income is derived from any public assistance program. Photo courtesy Lorraine Vogt