PUEBLO INTEREAGENCY

DISPATCH CENTER (PIDC)

2007

ANNUAL REPORT

Severe weather launched the 2007 season when PIDC ordered a Type 2 Team on January 2nd to support the storm ravaged South East portion of the Colorado PIDC Zone. Kansas was also affected by the same storm but no support was requested through PIDC. As spring started the zone supported the Southeast fire activity with Overhead and Engine resources requests. The zone experienced a normal winter and a slightly wetter than normal spring compared to the last several years. On May 4th Greensburg, Ks. was struck by an EF-5 Tornado with winds in excess of 200 mph causing loss of life and significant damage to the community. PIDC received the request to order a NIMO Team on May 6th to support the Greensburg Kansas Tornado Incident. The request for the NIMO Team was the first to be ordered within Region 2. PIDC set up an expanded organization on May 7th to support this incident until June 15th when the NIMO teamdeparted but PIDC continued to support the local organization for an additional three days. Throughout this incident PIDC continued to take action in response to smoke checks and wildland fire activity (which remained light throughout the zone) and supported requests for resource orders, law enforcement, and responded to requests for medical aids and traffic collisions within the zone.

As the summer progressed PIDC started to support other areas outside the region with Overhead and Equipment and at one time keeping over 200 Overhead out and 20+ engines assigned for 30 days.

Moving into the fall season PIDC zone started to see an increasing fire danger although the summer fire activity was very slow (lowest acreage and total numbers for wildland fires in the

last five years) the fire danger was moderate to high most of the summer.

On September 11th a lightning fire named the Big Cottonwood Fire was categorized as an AMR strategy and was finely contained and controlled in December.

October going into November we saw an increase in fire activity and continued to support the only type three incident organization ordered for a fire incident with-in the zone all year, at the same time we continued to order Aircraft to support wildland fire activity into mid November and large fires were occurring the first week of December until a cold front brought much needed snow into the area.

Our efforts to support out of region incidents still continued into November with PIDC sending out the first Engine Strike Teams from the zone to Southern California, we were able to send one strike team of Type 1 Engines and one strike Team of Type 6 Engines. As a result we will be looking at developing pre-determined Strike Teams of Engines for with-in zone use, as we have used Strike Teams with-in zone for the last two years (making them up as ordered) and we see this as a benefit to our agencies with-in the zone. Ending the year we saw snowfall finely start in the mountain portion of the zone with the plains being mainly dry with cold temperatures

2007 Fire Incidents

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2007 Non-Fire Incidents

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2007 Support Incidents

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A/ C Down Emerg Stby MISC Resc Order

PIDC Incidents by Day

150

218

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PIDC Incidents by Hour

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21

92 89

99 98105

114108

125

9686

54

33 36

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Incidents by Agency

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48

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OVERHEAD ORDERS

In Zone OVERHEAD 26 Orders (719 Requests)

USFS 375 (52%)

UTF 20 (3%)

FWS 5 (1%)

NPS 3 (0%)

ST 27 (4%)

CNTY 52 (7%)

BLM 57 (8%)BIA 4 (1%)

CX 176 (24%)

Out of Zone OVERHEAD 132 orders (465 Requests)

BLM 25 (5%)

NPS 3 (1%)

NWS 3 (1%)

BIA 9 (2%)

FWS 10 (2%)

USFS 114 (25%)

CNTY 171 (36%)

ST 37 (8%)

UTF 81 (17%)

CX 12 (3%)

EQUIPMENT ORDERS

In Zone EQUIPMENT 15 Orders(134 Requests)

AF 1 (1%)

USFS 73 (55%)

CX 31 (23%)

UTF 1 (1%)

BIA 3 (2%)

BLM 13 (10%)

CNTY 10 (7%)

ST 2 (1%)

Out of Zone EQUIPMENT 60 Orders(170 Requests)

BIA 3 (2%)

USFS 20 (12%)

BLM 3 (2%)

FWS 4 (2%)

CNTY 89 (52%)

Contract 12 (7%)

ST 15 (9%)

UTF 13 (8%)

CX 11 (6%)

CREW ORDERS

In Zone CREW 12 Orders(24 Requests)

USFS 4 (17%)

ST 14 (58%)

BIA 4 (17%)

CX 2 (8%)

Out of Zone CREW 30 Orders(37 Requests)

USFS 14 (39%)

CNTY 6 (16%)

ST 9 (24%)

FWS 3 (8%)

UTF 3 (8%)

CX 2 (5%)

AIRCRAFT ORDERS

Out Zone Aircraft 5 Orders (6 Request)

SEAT 1 ( 17%)Air Attack 1

(17%

Helicopter 4 (66%)

In Zone Aircraft 20 Orders (62 Request)

SEAT 8 (13%)Helicopter 14 (23%)

Air Tanker 4 (6%)

Jump Plane 3 (5%)

Lead Plane 2 (3%)

Recon 6 (10%)

Air Attack 7 (11%)

CX 11 (18%)

UTF'ed 3 (5%)

TFR 4 (6%)

AIRCRAFT ACTIVITY 2007

FIXED WING ACTIVITYRETARDANT

INCIDENT NAME INCIDENT NUMBER GALLONS DROPPEDFREMONT COUNTY SEAT BASE Muddy CO-PBX-001012 690

JEFFCO TANKER BASE USFS Deckers CO-PSF-000492 2400 Fires Ruby CO-PSF-000375 1540

USFS Total 3940 COUNTY Rattlesnake CO-PBX-001061 758 Fires Incline CO-EPX-001023 7054

County Total 7812Jeffco Total 11752

PUEBLO TANKER BASE 0 Pueblo Total 0

RMA HOME AIRTANKERS 0 RMA Home Airtanker Total 0

ROTOR WING ACTIVITY

MONUMENT HELIBASE Bell 407 20 Initial Attack Missions Flown / 140.5 hr 42519 (Water) Total 42519 (Water)

OTHER WITHIN ZONE ACTIVITY Geo - Seis Lama N55963 Incline CO-EPX-001023 1037 (Water) Trans Aero N58000 Greenhorn Blowdown CO-PSF-000989 0

RESOURCE ORDERS

FILLED BY AGENCY

OVERHEAD Orders filled by Agency

1012

117

24 4712 0

585

210 185

436489

826 15 13 3

223

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2006 2007

EQUIPMET Orders filled by Agency

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205

152

130

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2006 2007

CREW Orders fi lled by Agency

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2006 2007

Aircraft Requests filled by Agency

18

4

6

16

43

11

4

2

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6

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In Zone Out of Zone

LARGE FIRE AND

FIRE STATISTICS

Large Incident Activity

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Residence Destroyed CommercialDestroyed

Out BuildingDestroyed

Colorado Kansas

Large Fire & Acres by Month

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PIDC 5 YEAR AVERAGE

ROSS PASSWORD

TRAVEL

PIDC Incidents - 5 Year Average

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5Yr Resource Average

392 29087

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693 604

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2006 (3,894) 2005 (2,554) 2004 (1,121) 2003 (1,110) 2002 (8,337)

AC (2,114) CR (666) EQ (4,222) OH (10,014)

ROSS PASSWORD RESET REQUESTS

CO-COUNTIES (47%)

KS-STATE (10%)

FWS (4%)PRI (6%)

BIA (1%)

NPS (1%)

CO-STATE (2%)

BLM (3%)

USFS (26%)