2006 Wildland Urban Interface Code
Instructor: Scott Waldron
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Times
Start Time: 8:00 am PT, 10:00 am CT, 11:00 am EST End Time: 11:00 am PT, 1:00 pm CT, 2:00 pm EST
0.3 ceus/3 contact hours
Individual registration required to earn continuing education credit.
Description
This webinar will provide an overview of the wildland urban interface problem in the United States and its impact to local jurisdictions. A holistic approach to mitigation tactics are explored, including how to integrate Community Wildfire Protection Planning (CWPP), GIS mapping with web-based hyperlinking planning, and the International Codes.
Upon completion, participants will be better able to:
Explain the wildland-urban interface and its impacts on local communities and jurisdictions.
Utilize codes and standards to help mitigate wildland-urban interface fire impacts on homeowners and communities.
Incorporate the IWUIC in the performance of various jobs at the federal, state and local jurisdiction levels.
Enforce code provisions that help prevent the spread of fire from structures to wildland fuels and vice versa.
Evaluate whether structures are constructed in a way that limits their possible exposure from fires coming from wildland areas.
Enforce proper set back distances between structures and wildlands.
Properly apply fire-protection requirements.
Identify the wildland-urban interface areas in their jurisdiction.
Explain the integration of the codes and standards with CWPP and web based planning efforts.
Instructor
Scott Waldron is the Chief of the Frenchtown Fire District in Missoula County Montana where he has served for 18 years. He also serves as the Missoula County Fire Warden and is Chair of the Montana State Fire Chief’s Wildland Fire Committee. Scott is a member of the Northern Rockies Incident Management Team where he fills the position of structure protection specialist. He has a degree in Fire Science from Montana State University.
Scott has worked extensively with the wildland urban interface issues; development of subdivision regulations; urban interface fire protection tactis and worked as the Fire Chief’s representative to amending of Montana’s fire laws and regulations in 2006.
