Webinar - Wildfire: It Knows No Boundaries
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Each year, the frequency and intensity of wildfires are growing. They are destroying land across the globe and are taking lives in communities and firefighting organizations of every size. In fact, the U.S. Fire Administration reports that between 1990 and 2020, there were 522 firefighters killed while involved in brush, grass, or wildland fire response. In this webinar, presenter Bill Arsenault will provide a look into the wildfire landscape of the past 30 years, what has changed for the fire service, and what we must do to be more effective in our preparedness and response.
Bill Arsenault
Fire Chief
Kamiah Fire-Rescue
Bill recently served as the Fire Chief for Kamiah Fire-Rescue, a combination fire service organization in north central Idaho. The area is a high complexity wildland urban interface community that suffered major fires in 2015. Prior that, he worked for a fire department in eastern Idaho serving as its first Wildland Fire Program Manager for several years. He has almost 30 years involving wildland fire as well as municipal fire service. In addition, he spent several years also working for federal wildland fire agencies in various roles, performing duties from wildland firefighter up to national incident management teams. He is currently a National Fire Academy (NFA) instructor in the fields of safety, leadership, and training. Bill was recently selected to help assemble the Fire Department Safety Officer's Association (FDSOA) wildland fire safety committee. He has been published in a number of trade magazines including Fire Engineering, EMS World, and Wildfire.