21st Century Complete Guide to Wildfires and Nature¿s Superfires: Forest Fire Smokejumpers, Wildland Fires, Hotshot Crews, Forest Service and Park Service Documents, Aircraft Information, and Color Photography

This electronic book on CD-ROM presents the complete story of wildfires and forest fires, illustrated with thousands of dramatic color photographs of wildland fires, firefighting equipment, gear, and shelters, firefighters including smokejumpers and hotshot crews, firefighting aviation equipment (aircraft including tankers, other fixed-wing aircraft, and helicopters), and vehicles including a wide variety of fire trucks and other vehicles. Equipment and aircraft specifications are provided, including airtanker factsheets. Smokejumper unit histories, including Season Overviews, are a major feature, as is the 2001 National Smokejumper Report. Hotshot Crews are profiled; current activities and crew histories are featured. The National Interagency Hotshot Crews Operations Guide 2001 is reproduced. Wildland firefighter aviation base listings are provided, as is an Airtanker Base Directory. Detailed histories of major Wildfires are featured, illustrated with color photography, maps, and other information. Wildland Firefighting Accident and Mishap Reports are included, as are Firefighting Aviation Accident Reports. Fires profiled included the Los Alamos superfire and Yellowstone. Wildland fire historical documentation includes Bureau of Land Management Historical Wildland Fire Statistics; the BLM Fire Picture Gallery; the BLM Historic Forest Firefighters Photo Gallery; National Fire Occurrence Database and GIS Coverage: Federal and State Lands, 1986-1996; Relative and Visual Greenness and Live Shrub Moisture, 1989-1999; a Map Archive of Fire Danger, 1996-1999; the Keetch Byram Drought Index; Fire and Aviation Safety Alerts 2001; the Fire Danger Rating Fuel Model Map; Historical Fire Regimes by Current Condition Classes (cover types); National Fire Occurrence, Federal and State Lands, 1986-1996; Wildland Fire Fatalities in the United States 1990-1998; and the U.S. Forest Service Historical Photograph Collection. Airborne Wildland Firefighting subjects covered include Aerial Delivery Systems; Airtankers; Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems. The National Fire Plan and its implementation and the Wildland Fire Assessment System are featured subjects. Material from NIOSH features reports on actual causes and circumstances of fire fighter deaths as part of their Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software – allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.