I just had a look on the DFES web page fire map and noticed quite a few prescribed burns managed by Parks and Wildlife. I don't get it. Why would they conduct burn offs at the hight of summer in mostly potential catastrophic conditions?
www.emergency.wa.gov.au/#
It doesn't make sense to me. Am i missing something?
I just clicked on your link [5 hours after your post] and the panel on the left shows 18 warnings of active bushfires or smoke over roads etc, 25 incidents of house fires, car accidents and similar, and at the very bottom of the list it states there are no prescribed burns listed by the W.A. Department of Parks & Wildfires.
Nearest thing to a prescribed burn that I can think of, would be back burning in an effort to contain an active bushfire.
Prescribed burns are usually planned well in advance - but if the weather conditions are wrong, or there are insufficient firies available [volunteers and fulltimers] the planned prescribed burn would / should be cancelled or postponed.
Yeh, was in a crew that used to do hazard reduction on state land in Qld.
usually about 3-4 months of planning for the season, OHS, resources, weather, fuel loads, burn type etc.. then, if you actually get a window where everything lines up, you have to call fire control on the day for the final go ahead. The parkies do have a tendency to light up and let it go but in APZs you actually have to make sure the thing is out before you can go home.
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I just clicked on your link [5 hours after your post] and the panel on the left shows 18 warnings of active bushfires or smoke over roads etc, 25 incidents of house fires, car accidents and similar, and at the very bottom of the list it states there are no prescribed burns listed by the W.A. Department of Parks & Wildfires.
Nearest thing to a prescribed burn that I can think of, would be back burning in an effort to contain an active bushfire.
Prescribed burns are usually planned well in advance - but if the weather conditions are wrong, or there are insufficient firies available [volunteers and fulltimers] the planned prescribed burn would / should be cancelled or postponed.
Yes checked this morning and they have all been removed. Doesn't look so busy now.
And again today,.. massive effort to control an massive out of control fire and yet they have crews doing a prescribed burn.
^^^Could it not be that they are allowing the change in the wind work for them and burning back to create a firebreak?
Yeah more than likely planned back burn, they do that a lot in NSW to reduce fuel load.
They did say when the wind was light they managed some back burns, to help contain the fire.
Back burning is the only way to stop large scale fires but there is alway a risk when the fire front and the back burn meet as the flame height and intensity doubles. If there's not enough depth from the edge there's a risk of it bouncing out. Stay safe everyone
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And again today,.. massive effort to control an massive out of control fire and yet they have crews doing a prescribed burn.
The info on the map says " No planned ignition today".
The black symbol on the map indicates a planned prescribed burn. That doesn't mean it is alight, but I presume "Active" means that it could be under the right conditions. Presumably the proposed burn has met planning criteria and has been approved to proceed under appropriate weather conditions. I doubt that would be while a major bushfire is occurring and requiring massive resources.
