![]() Units that had multiple spreadsheets to manage their schedules were all consolidated into one system in InTime. It previously required 4-6 hours per week making schedule adjustments and an additional 2 hours per month building schedules. Even more, different departments within the Unit would have their own spreadsheets resulting in an inefficient management of manpower. Schedules were built and managed using a combination of spreadsheets and other scheduling systems. In some units of CAL FIRE, 20 hours/week were being spent managing overtime and finding qualified personnel to fill shifts. Before implementing InTime, CAL FIRE was using a combination of a competing product and multiple spreadsheets for scheduling, resulting in a lack of clear oversight and inefficient management.Ĭase Study Video: CAL FIRE & InTime – Scheduling and Overtime Management With more than 5,600 wild land fires each year, this places high demand on CAL FIRE’s ability to manage manpower efficiently. A firefighter keeps an eye on the Soberanes Fire as it backs down a hill to a fire break near Cachagua in 2016.How CAL FIRE can fill 400 days of overtime instantly.ĬAL FIRE is the third largest fire department in North America and are responsible for providing protection to over 31 million acres of state land. Pangburn said Cal Fire is conducting training and fuel reduction and recommends area residents maintain a minimum 100-foot defensible space buffer from their homes and go to for more information. Is it hot? Is it windy? It’s the luck of the draw.” What it boils down to is where you get an ignition and what are the conditions at that site at that exact moment in time. We haven’t had a lot of lightning and we have had a lot of other starts. “Even though the fire conditions have been slightly moderated from the fuel moisture, it’s also just a matter of (fire) starts. “Certainly we have a little bit of a late start, but there’s a lot of fuel out there and we have a lot of dead vegetation and dead trees in areas from years of drought,” he said. But at least two months remain in the fire season and Pangburn said vegetation, or fire fuels, is just becoming dry now like they were in April and May of previous years thanks to late-season rain and snow. One of the projects will be to reduce fuels in the Jamesburg/Cachagua area deep in Carmel Valley and the other is a fuel reduction project in San Juan Canyon in San Benito County.Īccording to an analysis of 25 years of federal and state fire records by Bay Area News Group, fewer acres have burned in California this year than in any year since 1998. The two other prioritized projects for Cal Fire’s San Benito-Monterey Unit are slated to start in September or October. Pangburn said the goal of the project is to make the homes in Palo Colorado safer and make the environment safer for firefighters in case another fire burns in the area. That is where the Soberanes Fire burned the most destructively and houses and other buildings were destroyed.” “We have a lot of houses up against a lot of fuel, a lot of vegetation to burn. “(Palo Colorado) is certainly one of our areas of greatest concern in terms of wildfire risk in our unit,” Pangburn said. Palo Colorado bore the brunt of the Soberanes Fire, which started from an illegal campfire in Garrapata State Park. “There’s a lot of work to be done out there but it’s going really well.” “The work up there is on Palo Colorado (Road) out near the hoist and on Long Ridge, Green Ridge, a little bit of work on Mescal Ridge and then Rocky Creek (roads),” Pangburn said. The Palo Colorado community was hardest hit and it’s now the focus of one of Cal Fire’s ongoing prioritized projects. It burned 132,127 acres and destroyed 57 homes in 2016. The Soberanes Fire was the last major wildfire to hit Monterey County. The communities have suffered damage and destruction from past wildfires. The area of the Palo Corona project is surrounded by rugged mountainous terrain with the Santa Lucia Range to the south and east. ![]() Its goal is to establish a shaded fuel break averaging 400-feet wide that could be up to 1,200 feet wide depending on slope, topography and fuel loading. The Palo Corona-White Rock Fire Roads project will create 54 miles of fuel break and reduce fuel zone adjacent to the fire access roads of the front country of the Los Padres National Forest. “We have contractors working along Palo Corona doing some really good work to protect the communities of Carmel Valley, Mid Valley, the mouth of the valley and Carmel Highlands,” he said. ![]() ![]() According to Jonathan Pangburn, a spokesman for the local Cal Fire unit, some of those projects are underway.
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