1981 CO Drought Plan

• Title: The Colorado Drought Response Plan
• Date: 5/15/1981
• Description: Colorado Drought Response Plan
• Basin: Statewide
• Drought Mitigation - Doc Type: Complete Plan

Mechanisms and systems to be utilized in gathering information:
Fire weather/danger station networks
AFFIRMS (fire danger computer system)
Local fire departments, county sheriffs
State and federal wildfire agencies
Colorado Wildfire Coordination Group
Fire Behavior Officers
State Climatologist
Water Availability Task Force.
G. Use of Data. Input data will be used to help assess the scope of
current and expected wildfire threat. Analysis of the threats leads
to recommendations for supplementing or changing the intensity and
mix of inter-agency wildfire protection program activites. Such
protection program activities should be considered for each of the
following categories:
Prevention of fires
Detection of new fires
Readiness (pre-suppression)
Reaction (Suppression)
Appendices A-D contain checklists for possible actions for each of
above categories. Additional actions may be devised by the task
force to fit the current opportunities and needs.
H. Outputs. Task force efforts must result in several essential
products:
1 . Review of existing wildfire protection capabilities in relation-
ship to current and/or potential threats.
2. Inventory of additional or special resource availability, costs,
and procedures for activation.
3 . Identification of key contact points with support service
agencies.
4. Identification and description of key wildfire policy and
authority issues.
5. Identification and listing of barriers to effective wildfire
protection.
6. Projection of impacts based upon wildfire threat severity.
7. Recommendations and costs on how major impact problems can be
solved.
8. Evaluate effectiveness of wildfire protection activities.
9. Devise a wildfire danger warning system for coordinated
public warnings/messages.
10. Procedures for coordinated system of fire restrictions and