Enclosure 3A - Project Summary Form
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Wildland Urban Interface Fuels / Education and
Prevention / Community Planning for Fire Protection Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Oregon Department of Forestry
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
503.945.7445
503.945.7264
Sboro@odf.state.or.us
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
2600 State Street, Salem, Oregon, 97310
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Pete Norkeveck – Legal Services Coordinator
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Oregon Department of Forestry, State
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
503.945.7445
503.945.7264
Pnorkeveck@odf.state.or.us
Project Information
Project Title:
Community Fire Watch
Proposed Project Start Date:
June 2003
Proposed Project End Date:
October 2004
Federal Funding Request:
$463,500
Total Project Funding:
$561,500
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
Brief Project Description:
Community Fire Watch: This is modeled after neighborhood watch concepts used by law
enforcement agencies and crime prevention initiatives. The project would insert prevention and law
enforcement officers into high-risk communities. Project personnel would focus on human caused
fire problems after a prevention analysis was completed for each community. Part of the project
would place emphasis on wildland arson deterrence while other parts would focus on achieving
voluntary compliance with local and state fire prevention regulations. A “Fire Tips” toll free call line
would be managed in each community to augment community patrols and allow for timely
intervention. The underlying purpose of this initiative is to solicit community involvement and apply
aggressive action towards known human “fire cause” risk. This effort provides community
safeguards while other initiatives are taking hold. This is a two-season project intended to be a
model demonstration to high-risk communities on the benefits of a fire watch program.
Recommendations will be provided each community at project’s end for future planning.
Project Location (latitude/longitude if applicable):
County:
Congressional District:
East & Western Oregon
Multiple
Oregon
Project Type: Check appropriate project type. More than one type may be checked. If only Box (4) is checked, use Enclosure 4.
(3) X Community Planning for Fire Protection Project
(2) X Wildland Urban Interface Education and Prevention Project
If the applicant is an unincorporated area, define the geographic area being represented:
Enclosure 3B (Page 1 of 3) - Project Narrative Description
Applications for funding must include a narrative response that describes the proposal. Please do not submit responses longer than one page,
single space, and 12-pitch font.
Describe project including, but not limited to:
 project location
Address these
 project implementation
items as
 anticipated outcomes
applicable:
 measures and reporting
 interagency partners
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project relationship to community or natural landscape fire plans
project time frames and income
specify types of activities and equipment used
amount or extent of actions (acres, number of homes, etc)
environmental, cultural and historical resource requirements
Response:
The project will have three focal areas: Central Oregon Area - Klamath Basin Area - Southwest Oregon Area
The Oregon Department of Forestry will implement the project by selecting prevention and law enforcement
officers, training officers in Oregon law and project objectives and provide project over sight and supervision
in cooperation with Oregon State Police, effected fire agencies, media and community leaders. This project
will be modeled after the Arson Patrol Program that operated from 1996 to 2002.
It is anticipated this project will elevate community awareness and self-discipline encouraging residents to
comply with established fire prevention regulations. As proven in other neighborhood watch efforts intended
to reduce crime, the opportunity for arsonists to operate discretely will be seriously diminished. Emerging fire
prevention violations will receive prompt attention and intervention will focus on education. Citizens will be
encouraged to get involved through media promotion. A “Fire Tips” call line will be the resident’s tool to
alert prevention officers of emerging problems. Quick intervention will avert serious consequence.
Project officers will log daily contacts and actions taken. Referrals will be made to affected agencies and
jurisdictions. Local fire managers will monitor and discretely manage patrol efforts. Patrols will coordinate
with all law enforcement and fire agencies in affected areas. This project will be a community asset during
the fire season months. Officers may be quickly mobilized to communities or portions of communities that
experience sudden problems.
Officers will conduct traditional patrols and focus on locations and times where “human caused” fires occur.
When violations are encountered officers will have the authority to intercede. Contacts will be made with
businesses, commercial operations, work sites, recreational activities and juveniles. Patrol units will be in
marked government vehicles that display a “Community Fire Watch” insignia. Units will have radios and
other PPE equipment as needed for the work. Officers will have jurisdictional authority (peace officer).
Officers will be trained in areas of arrest, issuance of citations and rendering emergency aid. Units will have
appropriate fire prevention educational materials to provide contacts.
The project effort is intended to provide coverage for 5 to 7 Oregon Counties with 2-3 patrol units in any
given community. The project can effectively operate with 9-12 officers. Daily supervision would be
provided as in-kind expense from the Oregon Department of Forestry and other cooperating agencies.
Moving units between communities would have a ghost multiplying effect i.e. public perception greater
numbers are out there.
The project would operate from June to October. Often human problems emerge when fire danger is
transitioning from lower to higher levels and the reverse. Funding would pay for salaries, per diem, vehicle
maintenance, and support materials. The Oregon Department of Forestry would provide patrol vehicles and
project management. This is a community based project to promote citizen involvement and
stewardship…neighbor watching out for neighbor…as it relates to human actions that may ignite a wildfire.
Reducing these vectors provides relief to local fire protection resources. Elevating community awareness and
involvement will modify unsafe behavior with lasting benefits. Successes experienced from the Oregon Arson
Patrol program will be expanded in this Community Fire Watch effort.
Enclosure 3B (Page 2 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for funding must include narrative responses that address the following four criteria. Within each criterion, subcriteria are listed in descending order of importance. Limit your responses to the areas provided.
1. Reducing Fire Risk. (40 points))
A. Describe how the proposal promotes reduction of risk in high hazard areas or communities, or natural landscapes.
B. Describe how the proposed project benefits resources on federal land or adjacent non-federal land, or how it protects the safety
of communities.
C. To what extent does the project implement or create a cooperative (1) fuels treatment plan or (2) community fire strategy
(include evidence of the plan if it already exists)?
D. Explain to what extent the affected community or proponent has been involved or plans to involve the affected community in a
qualified fuels education program (e.g., FIREWISE).
E. Explain how the proposal (1) leads to, enhances or restores a local fire-adapted ecosystem, and/or (2) mitigates or leads to the
mitigation of hazardous fuel conditions.
F. How will the proposed treatments or programs be maintained in future years?
Response:
A. Elevating public awareness and encouraging citizen participating in reporting problems will reduce human caused fires
during critical fire periods. Often when fire danger is transitioning the public lets it guard down or becomes complacent.
Safeguards are needed going into and out of critical parts of fire season. These are times when suppression resources may
be limited or stretched. The community experience over a two-season period will stimulate local initiatives and efforts.
B. This effort provides high-risk communities a daily “watch dog” presence and a resource that community leaders and
citizens can interact with. This is a mobile resource providing watch over all lands as needed. The project is reactive to real
time situations and copes with the human factors associated with fire risk. Officers interact with residents, businesses,
work activities and community leaders.
C. This project creates a community fire strategy directed at modifying risky behavior and promoting fire safe actions. The
project is modeled after the Oregon Arson Patrol initiative placing emphasis on human contact, positive communication,
education and compliance. As proven over several years with that project, communities quickly “buy in” to the concept of
“neighbor watching out for neighbor” and working collaboratively with authorities. This project expands the OAP concept
by focusing on traditional human activities that have elements of fire risk.
D. The communities this project would focus on already have other initiatives in progress such as FIREWISE. This project
represents a safety net to minimize reckless and accidental fire occurrence caused by human activities. This will show
immediate tangible results and give long range strategies a chance to take hold.
E. This is a community demonstration project to show community leaders how to manage, organize and achieve results. The
stewardship values that this effort promotes will have lasting impressions and affects.
2. Increasing local capacity. (30 points)
A. How would the proposal improve or lead to the improvement of the local economy in terms of jobs and sustainable economic
activity? How many jobs are expected to be created or retained and for how long (please distinguish between essentially yearround and seasonal jobs)? How will this proposal link to other projects (or proposed projects) to create year-round jobs?
B. To what extent will this project be offered to serve as a model for other communities or natural landscapes?
C. Will biomass or forest fuels be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much?
Response:
A. Depending on funding this project would create 9-12 seasonal positions for a two year period. Reduction in human caused fire
problems will provide relief to local areas in suppression cost savings and reduced liability claims from escaped fires. This
project is indirectly linked to other projects in that it will provide immediate relief from human caused fires while other
initiatives are taking hold.
B. This project will be a demonstration project for other communities to follow. It will show how to utilize existing resources and
infrastructure to the best advantage. The project will use the same model approach as the Arson Patrol Program…meaning,
taking advantage of “in-kind” services to make project dollars more productive. The project will show how to translate
prevention and risk analysis to meaningful actions on the ground.
C. Biomass and forest fuel utilization will be part of the informational and education effort when public contacts are made.
Enclosure 3B (Page 3 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
3. Increasing interagency and intergovernmental coordination. (15 Points)
A. Describe how this project implements a local intergovernmental strategy or plan, or creates such a plan. Describe the plan if it
already exists.
B. Explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning through a “Local Coordination Group” for wildland fire
activities, or among federal, state, tribal, local government and community organizations. List the cooperators (a detailed list
of cooperators will be required for projects that are funded).
Response:
A. This project will require a prevention and risk analysis and the local level and to some extent at the area and state level. The
analysis will translate in to a local operations plan for the community fire watch. This will require participation from a variety
of disciplines and to some extent the public at large. Part of the project is to document the analysis, operations plans and
tabulate results at the close of each season. This will provide other communities some base line information from which to plan
or make decisions for their own communities.
B. Local coordination will be the key to the success of this project. It will require the cooperation of local law enforcement, fire
service and wildland agencies. Media coordination is critical to promote public participation and cooperation. Based on the
prevention and risk analysis specific organizations may be identified as important partners in carrying out operations.
4. Expanding Community Participation. (15 Points)
A. To what extent have interested individuals, groups, and communities been provided an opportunity to become informed and
involved in this proposal?
B. Describe the extent of local support or opposition for the project, including any cost-sharing arrangements.
C. What are the environmental, social and educational benefits or concerns of the project?
Response:
A. This project is a concept derived from input from the six-year effort of the Arson Patrol Program. Communities, rural fire
districts and wildland fire managers have recommended that more resources be directed at dealing directly with human
caused fire problems. The perception is that during high-risk periods we are able to ramp up public contacts and compliance
monitoring when in many cases agencies have resource availability problems. The same personnel conducting community
patrols are siphoned off to fire suppression actions. This project would dedicate and focus patrol efforts during these periods
to provide a safety net against new fires getting started.
B. Based on the performance of the Arson Patrol Program there is strong community and agency support for such a project.
Opposition for this project may come from competing sources for the grant funds. The reduction in human caused fires
should translate into savings to local budgets and communities. Every catastrophic fire starts with a simple ignition. This
project is directed at ignition reduction especially at times when resources are limited. Many large and expensive fires occur
when the fire season is in transition (gong in to or out of high danger periods). This taxes the over all system and balloons the
cumulative fire season cost. This project can reduce costs during moderate fire danger periods as well.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Project Personnel:
 Hiring of project personnel.
 Training project personnel.
April each project year.
May of each project year.
ODF fire staff w/local districts.
ODF fire staff and local districts.
Project Planning:
 Prevention & risk analysis
 Project operations plan
 Cost management
 Equip. & Vehicle Use
March – April each project year.
March - April each project year.
April each project year.
Before June of each project year.
ODF fire managers & cooperators.
ODF fire staff.
ODF fire staff and ODF districts
ODF districts & fire staff
Project Documentation:
 Analysis & Plans
 Activity Reports
 Accomplishment Report
 Project Summary &
Recommendations
May each project year.
June to October each project year.
October each project year
October each project year
ODF fire staff compiles from district
Project personnel
ODF Districts
ODF fire staff & Districts
Managed weekly.
Managed as needed.
Managed daily
Weekly & By Pay Period
Pre-season and monthly
ODF districts
ODF fire staff
ODF fire staff & districts
ODF districts & fire staff
ODF districts & fire staff
Project Operations:
 Patrol Assignments
 Statewide mobilization
 Fire Tips Line
 Schedules & Cost Management
 Equip. & Vehicle Use
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
Personnel
Law Enforcement
Forest Officer
Subtotal
36014
60,000
144,000
240,014
240,014
Fringe Benefits
Law Enforcement
Forest Officer
Subtotal
15,486
12,000
36,000
63,486
63,486
Travel
Law Enforcement
Forest Officer
Subtotal
5,000
15,000
20,000
20,000
Equipment
Law Enforcement
Forest Officer
Subtotal
30,000
90,000
120,000
Supplies
Law Enforcement
Forest Officer
Subtotal
5,000
15,000
20,000
24,500
73,500
98,000
218,000
20,000
Contractual
Subtotal
Other
Subtotal
Total Costs
$463,500
98,000
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
Program income is the gross revenue generated by a grant or cooperative agreement supported activity during the life of
the grant. Program income can be made by recipients from fees charged for conference or workshop attendance, from rental
fees earned from renting out real property or equipment acquired with grant or cooperative agreement funds, or from the sale
of commodities or items developed under the grant or cooperative agreement. The use of Program Income during the
project period may require prior approval by the granting agency.
$561,500