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Expert Awareness for Advanced Firefighters & Fire Behaviour Analysts | ||||||
It is essential that staff in a Situation Unit consider the potential wind fields. Key possibilities are:
Analysts need to continually monitor the balance between prevailing winds, wind terrain interactions, thermal winds and wind channelling. Consideration should be given to issuing a watchout (Wind change at fire) if winds become variable or erratic. . |