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Chepeta Wildland Fire Module
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Chepeta Wildland Fire Module
The mission of the Chepeta WFM is to provide a safe, professional, motivated, and highly skilled interagency resource for resource benefit fire, confine contain fire, prescribed fire, and wildland fire suppression assignments.
The Chepeta Wildland Fire Module (WFM, formerly Fire Use Module) is a10 person crew based on the Ashley National Forest in Vernal, UT.
The crew is a national resource and can be dispatched to an incident anywhere in the United States, as needed. There are seventeen interagency fire use modules available nationally.
Typically, the fire season for Chepeta starts in mid-April and runs through mid-October and typically consists of prescribed burning assignments in the spring and fall with the majority of the module’s time being spent on a full spectrum of wildland fire incidents during the summer months.
In 2006, the Chepeta WFM was organized. Chepeta is a specialized resource whose primary mission is the implementation of wildland fire management/ resource benefit incidents, suppression incidents, hazardous fuels reduction, and prescribed fire projects. Fuels reduction and prescribed fire work includes, but not limited to, project design & layout, site preparation, project implementation, and project monitoring.
wildland fire modules are a unique resource due to the monitoring and technology focused capabilities. Modules provide expertise in observing and collecting information about the fire such as weather, fire behavior, and smoke data. Data collected by modules is used by fire managers to predict wildfire spread, map growth, and document fire effects. WFM’s are logistically self-sufficient resource with a full complement of gear to work and cook in backcountry conditions.
For more information about Chepeta WFM go to http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/ashley/fire/Chepeta.shtml
or contact Chris Deets cdeets@fs.fed.us or
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