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RINGS OF FIRE <br /> Extent of Tire Fire Exposures Protection <br /> On scene reconnaissance of the tire fire Protection of exposures will be an <br /> should provide information on where your important tactical decision for the first in <br /> tire fire is going. Aircraft can be deployed engines. Remember the exposure <br /> to provide additional information. Aerial examples for the Santa Rosa fire--railroad <br /> infra-red photography is useful to identify tank cars filled with alcohol, a lumber <br /> hot spots in a large chunk or chipped tire yard, and highway. A tire fire in the <br /> piles. Army Creek Landfill in Delaware <br /> threatened a hazardous waste site. These <br /> Additional Resources are but a few examples of the types of <br /> exposures to watch for. <br /> The need for additional resources should <br /> be identified while size-up of the fire is So many unmanaged sites are hidden from <br /> being accomplished: mutual aid, law enforcement agencies. A number of tire <br /> enforcement, environmental agencies, fires have been located in heavily wooded <br /> public service agencies, as well as, areas and/or grassy slopes. These, too, <br /> additional equipment and supplies, which need to be protected so you can avoid <br /> have already been identified in the pre- fighting a tire fire and a wildland fire at <br /> incident plan. the same time. <br /> Cost Analysis Separating Inventory <br /> Collecting information from the time the The initial approach to a tire fire should <br /> first truck leaves the station is a critical begin with isolating the tire inventory from <br /> function. How costly are tire fires? This the fire. Creating fire breaks in a large <br /> is a question your department may have to scrap tire pile is a long and consuming <br /> answer in an age of budget-cuts, cost process. But it can be accomplished with <br /> control, and rationalizing your heavy machinery and front end loaders. <br /> department's very existence. The number <br /> of agencies, personnel, equipment, and Heavy Equipment <br /> supplies should all be accounted for. <br /> The use of heavy equipment has been <br /> successful in fire suppression. Back hoes <br /> TACTICS and front end loaders can be used to pull <br /> burning tires from the pile and laid before <br /> Important tactical considerations include fire fighters equipped with water and/or <br /> protecting exposures and separating foam. Heavy equipment can also be <br /> burning tires from the rest of the employed to bury a tire pile fire. <br /> inventory. Heavy equipment can be used <br /> to accomplish these tasks. <br /> 48 <br />