FIRESCOPE CAL OES FIRE AND RESCUE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FIRESCOPE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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1 1 FIRESCOPE CAL OES FIRE AND RESCUE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FIRESCOPE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Burbank Fire Department Training Facility 1845 N. Ontario St. Burbank, CA January 13, 2016, 09:00 A.M. Members Present Dan Bout representing California Governor s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) Kim Executive Coordinator, Fire and Rescue, Cal OES Ken Pimlott CAL FIRE Ken Kehmna vice-chair elect, Santa Clara County FD Richard Webb Linda Fire Protection District Eric Peterson Santa Barbara County Fire Department Ralph Terrazas Los Angeles City Fire Department Jeff Meston City Fire Departments North Jeff Bowman Orange County Fire Authority Mark Lorenzen Ventura County Fire Department Jeff Meston City Fire Departments North Brian Marshall Kern County Fire Department Rich Webb Linda Fire Protection District Steve Kovacs Volunteer Fire Departments Mike Esparza California State Fire Association (CSFA) Mike Richwine representing Office of State Fire Marshal Jeff Power -- representing Shawna Legarza U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Members Absent * Daryl Osby Chairperson FIRESCOPE Board of Directors, Los Angeles County Fire Department * Mark Ghilarducci California Governor s Office of Emergency Services, Director * Sam Marouk Department of Interior, BLM *Lou Paulson California Professional Firefighters *Shawna Legarza U.S. Forest Service (USFS) *Tonya Hoover Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM) * Matthew Johnson National Park Services (NPS) Guests Present Michael Schroeder Orange County Fire Authority Mario Rueda Verdugo Cities Fire Command Ralph Domanski FIRESCOPE, Cal OES Dave Stone Fire and Rescue, Cal OES Art Torrez Fire and Rescue, Cal OES Ish Messer Fire and Rescue, Cal OES Nick Duvally Fire and Rescue, Cal OES Elaine Smith FIRESCOPE, Cal OES

2 2 Mark Hartwig San Bernardino County Fire Steve Winter Ventura County Fire Department Sean Fraley Kern County Fire Department Charles Butler Los Angeles City Fire Department Scott Anderson Los Angeles Fire Department Joseph Castro Los Angeles City Fire Department Dave Teter CAL FIRE Thom Porter CAL FIRE Region VI Coordinator 1) Welcome, Introductions, Logistics ***Meeting 09:13** () Meeting called to order at 09:13 a.m. Self-introductions begin. 2) Approval of October 14, 2015 Minutes * ACTION ITEM Motion made by Bowman to approve the October 14, 2015 FIRESCOPE Board of Directors meeting minutes. Pimlott seconds the motion. Motion approved. 3) Cal OES Director s Report Dan Bout 1) Drought Update a. Drought will continue a fifth year as 300% of rainfall is required to get out of drought b. Recovery slow shallow wells adjacent to seasonal streams c. Residents being informed to prepare for floods based on El Niño rainfall predictions d. Weather forecasters alert indicate potential arrival of first significant atmospheric rivers related to El Niño (Northern Sierras) 2) Task Force on Climate Change a. Getting national and interagency partners attention after two meetings b. Next meeting February 10 invitations are out, agenda forthcoming 3) Tree Mortality a. Governor declared state of emergency for trees hit by the drought and bark beetle infestation b. Comprehensive Paths forward: i. Funding, liabilities and legality/regulations ii. Agency taskforce formed, integral role by CalFire to lead the effort to coordinate the response with our various government and organizational partners. iii. Clearing key areas around infrastructure, roads, life lines (routes), of dead trees in those areas iv. Burn and mulching programs v. Expansion beyond six counties identifies as high hazard areas. 4) Aliso Canyon Gas/Well Leak a. A brief historical summary of the events leading up to the Governor s Proclamation was made; concluding with an updated status report of the situation. b. Contributing factors and future preventive measures c. Significant legislation will be forthcoming specific to lessons learned on this event. d. Governor s staff and State agency secretaries will come together for a town hall meeting Friday, January 15, e. Shortage of collaborative tools addressed i. Incident Command System form (ICS-209) proves useful 5) Terrorism/Active Shooter a. Cal OES is moving the State Threat Assessment Center(State s lead-in to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) network) to a site adjacent to Cal OES Headquarters

3 3 i. Effort to improve collaborative coordination between emergency management function and Homeland Security function ii. Reduces space constraints when pulling in interagency partners (State and Federal) breaking down walls; expediting response b. Addressing new anti-radicalization identification and prevention cohesively with community partners 6) NICS Update a. Constellation of different programs-a collaborative tool i. CalFire and local partners across California use NICS 5.1 ii. A proven robust collaborative platform paid for by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Science and Technology iii. not a replacement for (data rich) geographical information system (GIS) b. California has adopted the tool i. With intent to modularize the program, implementing the improvements made by Australians, modify Australian code base to meet the requirements of the super users i.e. CalFire, DHS, Lincoln lab, etc. ii. Ver. 6.2 possible β- test in Cloud based environment prior to summer 2016; test by users to follow before complete roll out to minimize risk iii. Compatibility w/entera ability to link (share information), share access to AVL The report concluded with discussion. 4) CAL FIRE / SFM UPDATE Pimlott/Richwine CAL FIRE 1) Fire Stats: a. Record Fire Season closed out i. Local government with 1800 more fires on State land than the five year average ii. 307,000 acres burned in SRA (est. 2-3 times the 5 year average) iii. 95% being contained in 10 acres or less met State containment goal iv. System to contain the initial attack worked b. The State appreciates the collaborative effort of the teams made on its behalf c. State goal to increase/improve IMT numbers 2) Budget: a. The budget reveals tax revenue, capital gains, and proposition 30 funding will give the Governor opportunity to increase the reserve. i. The goal is to prepare the reserve for the periodic ebb and flow; moderating the need for future reductions. b. Governor s budget reveals support for CalFire (details in State of the State address): i. automatic vehicle locating systems (AVL) ground resources ii. IT staffing support iii. ECC support Primary Initiatives--Adding to Command Center staff (twenty-one centers around the state, plus operation coordination centers in Redding, Sacramento and Riverside) to meet the workload; not having kept pace to scale with the increased call volume increasing workload and technology advances since early to mid- 1980s. c. Two additional Type-I air tankers exclusive use if needed, 6 additional helicopters (ultimately exclusive use) short term, 2 Type-I, 4 Type-II; strategically deployed, based on threat and need, flexibility to repeat this year. d. Planning for the 5th year of drought i. This budget sustains level of augmented funding of the last two years e. Investment Administrations goal is to make investments that can be sustained f. Helicopter replacement bid opens January 18, 2016; i. Anticipating the process will begin to budgeted July 1, 2016

4 4 ii. The understanding is this will be a multi-year process (duo program plan) 3) Regarding the issue of internal administrative support to managers and supervisors development of adverse action discipline the governor s office is supportive of staffing a unit to provide consistent adverse actions training to managers and supervisors. The topic is slated to go before the legislative body for review. 4) Greenhouse Gas a. Funding, cap and trade, the governor approve $180m into the department budget out of cap and trade funds, greenhouse gas reduction fund i. $30m allotted to urban community forestry ii. $10m allotted to conservation iii. $140m allocated to broad forest health, forest improvement crossing over into urban/rural concerns i.e. tree mortality 5) Federal budget a. Trying to get legislation passed for wildfire funding, eliminating fire borrowing which impacts the budgets and slows down the ability to work on fuels projects and other fire prevention activities. b. Congress approved million for 2016 c. FEMA funding did not pass; actively engaged 6) Succession announcement went out January 12, 2016 a. Management Teams i. Scott Upton New Region Chief, North ii. Greg McFadden Assistant Region Chief, North iii. Unit Chief Vacancies (currently six active Unit Chiefs) 7) Next Generation PPE a. Examining the levels of protection vs. fire proximity (how close do we want to be to the fire) b. Scrutinizing radiant heat, internal heat, heat exhaustion, to determine the balance for protection i. PPE is it Uniform allowance or Department provided. 8) Nationally: a. working with National Interagency Aviation Committee (NIAC), Western Forestry Leadership Coalition, I-Chiefs, federal partners, counties, and others looking at the priorities the nation is going toward collectively (wildfire issues i.e. prescribed fire fuels treatment, air quality rules) b. MOU signed with Park Service, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, in recognition of common goal Firefighting ; more on that in the next couple of weeks. c. Federal and State teams will be meeting concurrently in Sacramento the week of April 25, i. Joint Incident Command Day planned April 29, 2016(unconfirmed) 9) Tree Mortality Task force was reintroduced and the following points were made: a. October 30, 2016 Governor signed an Emergency Proclamation relative to the epidemic b. Drought conditions present an ideal environment for bark beetles to multiply to exponentially; Temporarily slowed due to cooler temperatures c. Six counties hard hit (approximately 30million dead trees statewide) i. Statewide mapping of the high hazard areas overlaying tree mortality with critical infrastructure/urban interface coincide to identify priorities. d. The task force developed eight sub-groups to address regulatory barriers, Caltrans coordination with PG&E, short-term needs of the counties to find places to deck logs, prioritizing public safety, tree falling hazards, situational awareness, etc. e. Decline in forestry industry factors in the need for the state to assist with tree harvesting and bio mass solutions. f. Number one focus: Currently the central Sierras 10) SRA Funding: a. There is no grant program proposed in the governor s budget b. Working under current fiscal year budget i. At this time 163 grant applications are being processed under the SRA fee ii. $5 million was allocated in the current year budget ($10m last year in grants) iii. Available on the Board of Forestry website is a comprehensive SRA fee report STATE FIRE MARSHALL Mike Richwine

5 5 1) Pipeline Safety division: a. Hiring to fill vacancies (3 positions in So Cal) b. Pipeline Safety engineers salary impaction issue resolved recruitment issues when the classification was moved to bargaining unit (BU) 9 i. Salary on par with BU-9 engineers 2) Santa Barbara Oil spill has resulted in an Assembly Bill (AB864) and a Senate Bill (SB295) being passed a. Budget proposal in the works for eleven pipeline safety engineers to meet the mandate 3) State Fire Training - It is anticipated that the Pro-Board Conference will vote to approve accreditation for the State of California curriculum for Firefighter I, Wildland fire fighter, and Haz-mat first responder (January 14, 2016). The proposal is expected to be voted on at the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC) April conference with a similar outcome. a. Reminder that the 2001 Firefighter I program has been retired (experience requirements will be accepted until January 31, 2017 for those who have recently completed or are in process of completion of the Academy). b. Firefighters currently enrolled in Firefighter II will have until the end of 2016 to complete the program (deadline for experience requirement is the end of 2017). 4) STEAC meeting Friday, January 15, 2016 a. Agenda items: i. Incident management of Fire Fighter emergencies which replaces the Rapid Intervention Crew (RIC) deployment command and control course, ii. the F-step course, iii. incident management of special operations (motion/vote forthcoming ), iv. Alameda County Fire is up for accreditation as a local academy(new addition), v. Reaccreditation of Los Angeles County, Allan Hancock Community college, Mira Mar, and Palomar colleges vi. Water Rescue program (deferred pending further discussion) 5) Fireworks: a. No money in Governor s budget for fireworks disposal b. Discussion continues between the Governor s office and industry about future management of fireworks. c. The law that was passed in the budget bill sunsetted on December 31, 2015; reverting to... State Fire Marshal shall dispose. d. Discussion of appropriate agency/agencies to handle hazardous waste, lack of funding, and staff to do the work continue. e. There is $5 million allocated currently i. Being used to get rid of stockpiles throughout California ii. Plan to encumber in contract (estimated $1.5million) left over funds with Clean Harbors for July 2016 disposal usage f. The following points were discussed: i. How this issue presents problems for everyone in the room ii. Collaborative effort is needed to educate legislator s iii. Funding assessment options suggested, cradle to grave, manufacturer, mom & pop sellers, general fund, etc. iv. Assessment of where funding comes from: cradle to grave 5) USFS Update Jeff Power

6 6 1) Past Season Wildland Fire stats: a fires totaling 537,000 acres 2) In-the-Line-of-Duty deaths a. David Ruhl on Modoc National b. Michael Hallenback- Sierra Fire 3) Personnel Movement: a. Chris Schow -- Accepted Deputy Fire Chief (regional) b. Lance Noxon Chief of Modoc National Forest c. David Updike Chief of Sierra National Forest d. Steve Griffin Chief of Lassen National Forest 4) Grants Awarded: a. $ 1.5million in state fire assistance funds b. $3.2 million in California Safe Council grants c. $1 million in Volunteer Fire Assistance 5) Aviation: a. First of seven C-130s operational this year b. Ninety-eight sorties, 141 hours of flight time, dropped estimated 294,000 gallons of retardant c. 18,423 hours of flight time (1,613 hours State and local fires) d. Challenges: i. Drones shut down air operations - Partnered with the State to campaign/educate public on drone operations near wild land fires ii. Running airport operations from Jet A for several days (Northern California) 6) CFAA a. Albuquerque service center conducting audits of some local fire departments anticipate reengaging with the group January 21, b. Staffing update i. No changes to resource staff for :51 a.m. 11:06 a.m. 6) Elect Vice-Chair ACTION ITEM Motion made by Esparza to elect Ken Kehmna vice-chair of FIRESCOPE BoD. Second by Bowman. Ken Kehmna elected to vice-chair unanimously. 7) EMS Update Hartwig 1) Cal Chiefs annual planning conference (2 day event)--discussion of last year s events, future direction and obstacles specifically 2) Ways to generate revenue through EMS program (ALS stabilization healthcare billing, Medicare reimbursement) and the need to change the language. a. Contra Costa model is being looked at by many Counties. b. GEMT covers the straight MediCal patient; covered California though the Affordable Care Act requires you to have an HMO provider. There may be GEMT funds to pay for the difference between what MediCal pays and the actual cost. 3) Medical Reimbursement- Cal Chiefs is trying to develop legislation for Fire Agencies to get reimbursement for ALS and possibly transport. 4) Cal Chiefs is pushing Exclusivity for Fire Agencies with 201 rights saying they support this position.

7 7 8) CFAA UPDATE- /Webb /Lorenzen/Kovacs 1) Working sub-committee has a meeting January 21, 2016 in Sacramento. 2) Finishing up on the Butte fire and Washington State mobilization a) Invoices hitting the deck working on payment b) Get through travel claims on the table. c) Cal OES Fire & Rescue hired extra help, a former GSA employee, to help process bills. d) Issues raised regarding the complexity of the reimbursement process, staffing, approaching grace-period, need for automation and resolution e) Other concerns: i) Travel claims last big item ii) More adjustment for future (person/energy driven; how to automate it more) iii) Grace period ended: Unknown how many missed the deadline iv) Meeting with Forest Service to modify/amend wording of CFAA 9) CWCG Update /Lorenzen/Webb a) Discussions related to the goals and objectives for 2016, CWCG IMTs vacant slots, impending succession. b) Donnelly took over for Bannister, CWCG chair inclusive c) Shawna Legarza has 2016 Chair slot, facilitating Our meetings d) NWCG pushing CWCG (objective: Cooperation to put resources on the deck) 10) HAZARDOUS MATERIAL BY RAIL/HSR Update a) Hazmat staff is writing regulations. The Director may form a Hazmat Advisory Group b) We have rebid hazmat rigs we are ordering. The costs actually came out less than initially bid c) Training will be provided for personnel assigned to this equipment d) Region program for Hazmat, 2 per Region, 12 across the State. FIRESCOPE typed Type 2 e) Rail industry to collect fees for OES Region- III Butte and Shasta are the two biggest Hazmat practitioners in the northern part of the State. 11) IAFC WUI Private Resources on Fire * Invitation to FIRESCOPE 1) Correspondence Working through the documentation, stalemate broke, Chief May has been guiding us through the process 2) Chief Kehmna is open to suggestions from the FIRESCOPE Board of Directors. Chief Kehmna will be assigned to one of the NWCG committees. 3) Chief Roper was instrumental in getting FIRESCOPE back in NWCG after being dropped from committees a few years ago. Break for Lunch Break 12:10. Meeting 12:41. 12) 2016 FIRESCOPE Goals and Objectives

8 8 This item was deferred to the next meeting A request was made to have to add the Blue Ribbon initiative to docket 13) OPS Team / Task Force Report * Winter 1) 2016 FOG Revision Update Consolidated into one program by Jon Kolman Should be finished mid to late ) Standardized WUI Preplan 3) Common Operating Platform 4) REMS Presentation for Team meetings, WUI Conf. and FFW 5) Membership changes: Mike Lococo (OES) retired Mario Rueda (Ops Team) accepted the position of Fire Chief for Verdugo Cities Fire Command Dave Stone (Task Force) OES Region 1 Assistant Chief 6) Current openings on the Taskforce: (request vacancies be filled ASAP; refer to handout for close dates) Cities South Volunteer 7) Ops Team to elect new chair at January joint Task Force and Operations meeting held at Pismo Beach 14) New Business 1) Vacancies/Appointments: a. Notice sent to fill vacant FIRESCOPE BoD seat Fire Districts, South i. Selection panel (Bowman, Meston, and Webb) (min. 3 candidates) b. Region II Coordinator Chief Doug Williams retired c. Chief David Rocha elected Region II Coordinator 2) Blue Ribbon Summary turn facilitation over to Chief Bowman suggests smaller sub-group to get a topfive list consensus what is most important and get it done in the next year. a. Sub-group: Jeff Meston, Brian Marshall, Steve Kovacs, Eric Peterson, Ken Pimlott, Mike Esparza, Bowman (deadline/done by February Climate meeting) 15) Old Business 1) Blue Ribbon Summary 2) CICCS Update Nick Duvally a. See document included in BoD packet. b. A new CICCS Guide should be produced in ) --Type III AH IMT Update a. CICCS Task Force would like to extend the historical recognition for the Type III AH IMT positions to July 31, 16. Proposed to the FIRESCOPE BoD for their concurrence. Action Item: Kehmna makes motion: To extend the historical recognition period for Type III IMTs to July 31, Esparza seconds. Motion passed. 16) Cal OES Fire & Rescue Report 1) Personnel changes:

9 a. FIRESCOPE Communications Operator Chad Stokes promoted within the agency relocating to (Mather/Sacramento) b. FIRESCOPE North Ops AC Mike Lococo resigned at the end of 2015 c. Three vacant positions in process of being filled 2) Shortfall in 911-fund (moving from landlines to cell phones) billion dollar short a. 911 cell reroutes 3) Retirement PASCO Karen Wong 4) Budget due/allocation: $43 million to Cal OES, $23 million to Fire and Rescue for Apparatus repair; 12 additional positions, additional mechanics, reimbursement support, AVL, and fleet fleet maintenance 5) Super Bowl 50 6) Type III Engines: a. Fire & Rescue has 40 now, 20 more coming i. Rigs being given up by some assignees b. WT not utilized, generally in rural areas c. Put some rigs back in the rural area 7) Input for Type VI engines, staffing 2 minimum, 3 maximum a. Discussion of pros and cons of Type 6 Engines, showed slides of possible configurations, vendors 17) Roundtable 9 B. Marshall- Kern County copied Orange County, will have a certified Forester available for questions and issues regarding tree mortality. Sand bag Saturday in Kern County, the county secured 8000 sand bags from Federal excess property Peterson -Restructuring Helicopter aviation crew requirements development of fire based operations like hoisting, water dropping. Moving away from reverse 911, using Everbridge Lorenzen FCC protect your public spectrum under First Net (use it or lose it) info comes through IT not Fire Kehmna Relationship building experience through Super Bowl 50 planning, Mutual aid partnerships have been outstanding. It has been challenging trying to bring all the cooperating non-fire entities together. Mario Public Thank You to K Pimlott for SART team collaboration Joseph Castro In order to get Law Enforcement buy in at incidents, Identify one credible L.E. Officer that supports the plan and the other LE will typically buy in as well. Mike Esparza Congrats to Mario! 18) Meeting The next Cal OES Fire and Rescue Advisory Committee/FIRESCOPE BoD Meeting will take place at Burbank Fire Department Training Center in Burbank, California on July 13, The agenda setting conference call for the meeting will be June 30, *-Denotes documents supporting this agenda item are included with packet. **-out of sequence