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ITALIAN CIVIL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT

Podgorica

22 February 2018

Conference

• n forest fires prevention, preparedness

and lessons learnt after forest fires season 2017

AGENDA

 Italian Forest Fire Fight legislation and organization;  Debriefing season 2017 and Lessons Learned;  Forest Fire Fleet preparedness 2018.

Italian legislative framework

• n forest fires

• The REGIONS have the responsibility for prevision,

prevention and fire - fighting activities (reconnaissance, surveillance, alarm and fire extinguishing, with ground teams and regional fleet aircraft) They are autonomous and have full authority;

• The STATE have the responsibility of contributing to fire-

fighting activities in support of Region with the State Air Fleet.

Legislative Framework

ITALIAN NATIONAL REGULATION ON FOREST FIRES (LAW n° 353/2000)

Regional Plan is a procedure and coordination tool for all “forest fires activities” at regional level.

Knowledge of the phenomenon and its impact on the territory Fire fighting activities: Procedures and communication flow; Regional Ops Room; Coordination

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human and instrumental resources;

Legislative Framework REGIONAL ACTIVITIES

Prevention activities forest management and information to the population Prevision activities: predict scenario of risk conditions for FF

ITALIAN NATIONAL REGULATION ON FOREST FIRES (LAW n° 353/2000)

 ICPD coordinates the fire fighting State air fleet by the Combined Air Operation Centre (COAU)  ICPD supports regional activities in case of citizens or infrastructures are involved.

Legislative Framework NATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Italian Civil Protection Department (ICPD):

ITALIAN NATIONAL REGULATION ON FOREST FIRES (LAW n° 353/2000)

ITALIAN NATIONAL REGULATION

• The

ICPD calls periodical plenary meetings with all administrations involved (Regions, National Fire Corps, Military, Private Company, Ministry of Agriculture and Health, etc.)

• President of the Council of Ministers signs and delivers the

Operational Recommendations for forest fires and wildland- urban interface fires for the summer season;

• Training

school camps, information campaign to the population and support to voluntary training activities.

ITALIAN NATIONAL REGULATION National Forest Fire Forecast Bulletin

 The ICPD issues a daily Bulletin containing the predict scenario with the risk conditions to ignition and spread of forest fires.  It’s a combination of numerical model and expert evaluation.  It’s distributed to all national and regional stakeholders.  It’s an useful support to state air fleet daily set up;

Legislative Framework NATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Forest Fires Debriefing season 2017

Summer 2017: Temperature and Rainfall analysis

June 2017 July 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 August 2017

More red more negative different compared to historical mean values

Temperature compared to historical mean values Rainfall compared to historical mean values

3500 7000 10500 14000

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

2735 1368 957 1025 1625 2234 428 749 1049 1136 2650 10634 6646 5383 5854 9098 11686 2306 3168 5287 5666 13188

Requests Flights Hours

State air fleet Comparison requests/flights hours 1st January – 31th December 2007 - 2017

State air fleet Fire fighting activities 1st January – 31th December 2017

Requests Flight hours STATE FLEET 2.650 13.188 REGIONAL FLEET 2.500 13.700

TOTAL

5.150 26.888

14 Positions of the FFF aerial requests from June 15 to October 31, 2017

ITALY

Integrated National Civil Protection System

Debriefing Forest Fire season 2017

Copernicus monitoring system has been activated for several forest fires in Rapid Mapping mode for requesting mapping

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From 13th July for the forest fires in the center and south of Italy From 27th October for the forest fires in the Piemonte region.

Copernicus emergency management service Rapid Mapping

Period Nation Flight Hours Drops

18 – 25 june Portugal 108 400 25 – 27 june France 16 68

Eu BUFFER 2017 n.2 CL-415

Period

Partecipating States

Flight hours Drops

13 – 14 July

France 28 172

28 – 29 Aug.

France 29 100

29 Aug – 4 Sep

Morocco 48 104

29 Oct – 2 Nov

Croatia 46 134

30 Oct – 1 Nov

Switzerland 22 129

1 Nov

France 12 26

International Support in Italy

EU-Buffer Capacity

June the 15th to sept. the 30th

18

107 107 day ays of readin iness but 44 44 day ays NOT AVAILA LABLE BLE due to fire emergency (Compe pell llin ing Reasons ns)

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Flight Safety Main technical issues

Reduced availability of Aircraft during the campaign due to: (National Compelling Reasons)

• Stops airplane for damage (3 cables and damaged airplane keel impact events);
• Stops airplane for engine changes, necessarily anticipated because flew ;
• Stops airplane for ‘’base maintenance’’ inspections because flew required;

0.00 1200.00 2400.00 3600.00 4800.00 6000.00 7200.00 8400.00 9600.00 1-Jun 8-Jun 15-Jun 22-Jun 29-Jun 6-Jul 13-Jul 20-Jul 27-Jul 3-Aug 10-Aug 17-Aug 24-Aug 31-Aug 7-Sep 14-Sep 21-Sep 28-Sep

Flying hours Data

June – September total CANADAIR flying hours activity

2017 2012 2007 2003

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12 15 1111 18 10 2 8 1314 8 4 3 2 0 1 6 9 4 3 1 6 9 9 3 2 4 4 5 4 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

Crews limit extended beyond limits 24 hours / 7dd - PMAX 2017

N° piloti con estensione dei limiti oltre le 24 ore Ore di volo

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Flight Safety Main operational issues

Three cases of aircraft that have impacted power lines cables. Needs to mitigate this risk exposure.

I-DPCT – Porto di Sant’Agata di Militello

Mitigating Action:

Corporate working group with the aim of:

• Reduce Crew exposure to risks;
• Analyze the State and regional legislation;
• Develop an integrated system of actions addressed

to stakeholders;

• Improving knowledge of Power lines of high and

medium voltage position (mapping on board)

• DOS air force training aimed at a better knowledge of
• perating procedures

Forest Fire Fight 2017 Lessons Learned

• ▪ The centrality of the Italian Civil Protection Department and its

coordination activity with all involved stakeholder; ▪ No victims: good prediction risk and preventive evacuation; ▪ Capability to generate human resources and flight hours during the emergency. Defense, Regional and State fleets Operators; ▪ Inter-regional twinning: exchange of human resources and equipment.

Strong Points

Critical Points & Lessons Learned

▪ During flight operations, strong or absence of wind has limited the flights due to turbulence or presence of smoke;

• Use of Infrared Camera.

▪ Lack of information on the fires and low Situation Awareness about crises in progress, unable to make Fire analysis, choice of the asset, interventions, prioritization; ▪ Communication flow between COAU / Director of firefighting ops (DOS) / Pilots / Regional Ops room / Firefighter ineffective;

• Improvement of procedures and SUITABLE standardization in case of crisis.

▪ Flight Hours to transfer approximately 40% of total on the fire (crew change, distance from airport, distance from sea/lake)

• Use of mobile tanks;
• Monitoring water source natural and artificial basin.

▪ Aerial work, often frustrated by limited mop-up (Lack of boots on the ground)

• Improvement of procedures.

▪ Emergency in Northern Italy: request for water source beyond the

• border. Slow procedure between regional prefectures Italy /

France;

• Improvement of procedures & exercise to test agreement in force.

Critical Points & Lessons Learned

▪ Not only the number is increased, but the severity and size of fire;

• Needs to adapt procedure end equipment to new environment challenge

▪ Request concentrated in the afternoon. Limited using assets; ▪ Limited use of retardant for environmental risk and load timing; ▪ State Forestry Corps reform: the Transition phase has been not easy to match with one of the worst season in our history.

Critical Points & Lessons Learned

Critical Points & Lessons Learned

▪ Needs of aerial reconnaissance in critical situation; ▪ A huge amount of Wildland-Urban Interface Fires. All aerial fleet capacity diverted near urban areas. Consequently, low capability to dedicate for F.F.F. but: ✓ NO VICTIMS; ✓ Containing fronts on crucial areas; ✓ Positive perception of Government presence.

Debriefing Season 2017

• The forest fires season in 2017 has been very demanding

both in terms of forest fire interventions and civil protection interventions to support the population and infrastructures;

• We have gathered information on the AIB regional systems

that operated in 2017;

• The

ICPD has

• rganized

and structured an extensive institutional debriefing activity on the season 2017 with the Regions and the administrations involved.

• The aim has been to examine the overall trend of the season,

identify critical issues and the good practices sharing solutions for the benefit of the entire system.

Forest Fire Debriefing season 2017

Debriefing forest fire season 2017

Debriefing Season 2017

At the end of the debriefing, improvement proposals were been defined by the participants. The main proposals are:

 Prevision: 1) regional warning systems in support to fire fighting response and civil protection activities, based on regional bulletin forecast scenario of risk conditions. 2) increasing resilience and awareness in society also through the sharing of forecast information;  Prevention: 1) forest management and fuel mass reduction, in particularly close to wildland-urban interface areas; 2) monitoring and updating of the law constraints on burned areas;

Debriefing forest fire season 2017

Debriefing Season 2017

 Fire fighting response: 1) improving regional air fleets; 2) staff training; 3) operational procedures and communication flows.

The ICPD transmitted the results of the debriefing to the regional political level for their application at local level (note of 14 December 2017)

Forest Fires preparedness Season 2018

The fleet readiness is the outcome of a careful analysis and evaluation of different factors and coordination with all State administrations:  Italian fire brigade (Owner)  Italian Civil Protection (Tasks and C&C)  Private Company – Babcock - (Operator)  Defense – force provide

FOREST FIRE FLEET AVAILABILITY 2018

“ FULL FRONT LINE” AIR FLETT SUMMER 2017 / 2018 AIR FLEET OPERATOR NUMBER OF A/C

CANADAIR

CNVVF (Babcock)

14 (19) 2 Buffer Capacity?? S-64

CNVVF (European Air Crane)

4 AB-205

E.I.

1 AB-212

MMI

2 AB-412

CNVVF

12 CH-47

E.I.

1 NH-500

C.C.

3 AB-212

A.M.

1 AB-412

EI

1

Specifications

CANADAIR CL 415

ERICKSON S 64F

Mission

Forest Fire Fighting, Transport, SAR Forest Fire Fighting, Recce, Transport, Number of A/C

19 4 (VVF)

Range (1 hour of

• peration )

320 NM 54 NM

Max Endurance

5 HOURS 2 HOURS

Cruise Speed

160 Kts 97 Kts

Max Weight

43.850 Lbs

47.091 Lbs Crew

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2 Extinguisher Load

Up to 6.000 liters Up to 9.000 liters

Forest Fire Fighting Fleet

Specifications CH-47 E.I. AB-205 E.I. AB-212 M.M. AB-412 VV.F. Mission Forest Fire Fighting, Transport, SAR Forest Fire Fighting, Transport, SAR Forest Fire Fighting, Transport, SAR Forest Fire Fighting, Transport, SAR Max Endurance 3 HOURS 2 HOURS 2 HOURS 2 HOURS Cruise Speed 325 Km/h 175 Kts 222 Km/h 120 Kts 195 Km/h 105 Kts 260 Km/h 140 Kts Max Weight 22.700 kg 4.310 kg 5.070 kg 5.398 kg Crew 4 3 3 3 Extinguisher Load 5.000 lt 800 lt 800 lt 800 lt

Forest Fire Fighting Fleet

Set-Up State Air Fleet – 2018

AB-205 E.I. AB-412 VVF CH-47 E.I. AB-212 M.M. S-64 V.V.F. CL-415 V.V.F.

More than 40 means

Regional Fleet – Summer 2017/2018

2 2 2 10 2 3 2 2 4 1 10 1 12 4 7 2 4 Total Aerial regonal Means 70

State fleet + Regional = 110 assets

It is determined by the statistical study of the climate, fire risk, availability of air bases, contractual restrictions, water resources distance and regional assets availability.

FOREST FIRE SET UP FLEET

2 CL-415 VVF 3 CL-415 VVF 3 CL-415 VVF

Winterly Set Up N° 8 A/C CL 415

2 CL-415 VVF 2 CL-415 VVF 1 CL-415 VVF 2 CL-415 VVF 3 CL-415 VVF

Initial Summer Set Up N° 10 A/C CL 415

Maximum Summer Set Up N° 14 A/C CL 415

3 CL-415 VVF 3 CL-415 VVF 1 CL-415 VVF 3 CL-415 VVF 4 CL-415 VVF

Set-Up State Air Fleet – 2018

AB-205 E.I. AB-412 VVF CH-47 E.I. AB-212 M.M. S-64 V.V.F. CL-415 V.V.F.

More than 40 means

ITALIAN CIVIL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT

Podgorica

22 February 2018