Combating the Clear Fire: the elements that make Clear a type 2 fire
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Covering a vast area, threatening multiple structures in a community, and utilizing crews from multiple agencies, the Clear Fire has achieved a type 2 incident status.
As Planning Section Chief, Darron Williams put it, a type 5 fire is “just a little, smaller fire that can be taken care of with just one engine.” As the numbers get smaller, the complexity of the fire increases. For type 3 fires, a written incident action plan is required before suppression and protection activities occur the next day. Continuing up the scale, type 2 and 1 fires are often very complex fires that have multiple agencies involved and many structures at risk.
Many of the larger fires in California, despite being much smaller than the Clear Fire, do tend to reach a type 1 status. This is mostly due to the high amount and close proximity of at-risk structures, and a fire’s behavior factors.
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