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3 Table of Contents 1 Purpose... ESF Scope... ESF Roles and Responsibilities... ESF Primary Agencies... ESF Oregon Department of Forestry... ESF Office of the State Fire Marshal... ESF Support Agency... ESF Oregon Military Department... ESF Adjunct Agencies... ESF Concept of Operations... ESF Supporting Documents... ESF Appendices... ESF 4-3 ESF 4-iii

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5 ESF 4 Tasked Agencies Primary Agencies Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM) Supporting Agency Oregon Military Department (OMD) Adjunct Agencies 1 Purpose Detect and suppress wildland, rural, and urban fires resulting from, or occurring coincidentally with, naturally occurring, technological or manmade emergency incidents. 2 Scope Coordinates support of fire fighting activities, including detection of fires, and providing personnel, equipment, and supplies in support of all agencies involved in rural and urban (OSFM) and wildland (ODF) fire fighting operations. 3 Roles and Responsibilities 3.1 Primary Agencies Oregon Department of Forestry Devise and use environmentally sound and economically efficient strategies which minimize the total cost to protect Oregon's timber and other forest values from loss caused by wildland fire. Works in conjunction as a fire protection agency with the Oregon State Fire Marshal s office and other agencies as needed. Under ORS it is declared to be public policy that ODF is responsible for the preservation of forests and the conservation of the forest resources through the prevention and suppression of forest fires in the State of Oregon. ODF operates within a complete and coordinated system of federal, state and local fire jurisdictional partners to meet its primary mission of protecting forest resources, second only to saving lives. Structural protection, though indirect, shall not inhibit protection of forest resources. Through the Fire Mobilization Plan, ODF is capable of mobilizing a substantial response to emergencies including incident management teams, public information personnel, radio systems, communications trailers, kitchens, shower units, and other support services. ESF 4-1

6 ODF supports three, thirty three person Type 1 incident management teams. The teams are staffed with ODF employees across the state plus one Fire Service - structural liaison for each team. ODF operates the Salem Coordination Center, which is responsible to coordinate the distribution of ODF assets statewide. Area Headquarters located throughout the state direct response activities of ODF assets. ODF activities involve all phases of forestry including: responsibility for the protection from fire of the16 million acres of private, state, and federal forest lands; detection and control of harmful forest insects, pests and forest tree diseases; rehabilitation and management of stateowned forest lands; and operation of tree nurseries Office of the State Fire Marshal OSFM manages and coordinates Oregon s firefighting activities. This function is accomplished by mobilizing firefighting resources in support of State, Federal, and local wildland, rural and urban firefighting agencies. The mission of the OSFM is to protect life, property and the environment from fire, and hazardous materials. As described in the State Fire Service Plan, the OSFM may coordinate and direct the activities of all structural fire fighting resources of the state through the organization of state and county fire defense boards and their respective mutual aid agreements. OSFM is responsible for planning and implementing response by structural firefighting forces called up by the Governor under the Conflagration Act (ORS to ). OSFM coordinates and directs three Type 2 all-risk incident management teams and advanced communication equipment. The teams are staffed with local fire officers and OSFM employees. OSFM is a member of the Pacific Northwest Wildfire Coordination Group and serves as Oregon State Police fire prevention and control liaison with state and federal fire protections agencies, including ODF, US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. OSFM operates an Agency Response Center within the State ECC on an as needed basis. 3.2 Support Agency Oregon Military Department Can aid in providing firefighting support, resource distribution, potable water transportation, mass feeding, establishing communications ESF 4-2

7 networks with fixed and mobile radios, providing aerial surveillance of a disaster area, and the provision of limited electric power from portable generators. The Guard may also assist in search and rescue, lifesaving and air ambulance missions. 3.3 Adjunct Agencies [TO BE DEVELOPED] 4 Concept of Operations OEM will coordinate all requests for assistance and communicate with the state agencies to identify the appropriate action and state resources to be used. Once firefighting assets have been identified to meet the request, OEM will create an action and assign it to the specific State agencies to accomplish the task. ODF is responsibility for the prevention and suppression of wildfires on ODF protected lands, which includes all classified forestland (ORS ) within "protection district boundaries" (ORS ) in addition to all lands protected by contract or agreement ( ). ODF does this work independent of the ESF planning document. In the past, ODF has been called upon by the Governor s emergency declaration process to support all risk incidents, including wildfire suppression on non-odf protected lands. 5 Supporting Documents National Response Framework, ESF 4 Firefighting County and State Agency ESF 4 Annexes State of Oregon Cascadia Subduction Zone Catastrophic Earthquake and Tsunami Operations Plan County Community Wildfire Protection Plans Master Cooperative Fire Protection Agreement State Fire Service Mobilization Plan Conflagration Act (ORS to ) 6 Appendices None at this time. ESF 4-3

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