# Presentation: 178564

## EARLY ADOPTERS LIVE MEETING

- September 17, 2008

## Meeting Rules

- Please mute your phone unless asking a question
- No mute button?
- Try *6 for mute
- *6 again to disable mute
- When asking a question, state your name and FPU
- Questions from early-adopter FPU                   members have priority

## Agenda

- Roll Call - Ed
- News & Updates - Sue
- Prevention Overview -
- Demo -
- Questions - Ed

## News & Updates

- New User Guide chapter on building fuels options will be sent out this week.
- Comments or suggestions on previous chapters of the User Guide – please send by this Friday 9/19 to be included in the first release.
- Comments on the interagency guidance also needed by 9/19.
- Workload estimates needed for end of FY reporting.  Please send by 9/26.

## News & Updates

- 1 call left in the series which will cover Run Models & Interpreting Reports.
- The system is defaulting to an 0800 start time.  This is a bug and will be fixed.
- You may get an error regarding aborting script – just say “no”

## FPA Prevention Links

**Understanding the Fire Program Analysis (FPA) Prevention Module**
- _[http://www.fpa.nifc.gov/Library/Papers/Docs/FPA_2/WP_Prevention_3_27_08_final.pdf](http://www.fpa.nifc.gov/Library/Papers/Docs/FPA_2/WP_Prevention_3_27_08_final.pdf)_
**Technical Formulae Used by the FPA Prevention Model**
- _[http://www.fpa.nifc.gov/Library/Papers/Docs/FPA_2/Tech_Prev_Formulae_2008_6_25.pdf](http://www.fpa.nifc.gov/Library/Papers/Docs/FPA_2/WP_Prevention_3_27_08_final.pdf)_

## Process Overview

## Total Cost of Option

**Total Cost of Option**

## Costs in Preparedness

**How much to invest in Initial Response versus Prevention?**

## How Much Prevention Program?

**Varies across FPUs & Partners**

- Prevention investment does _not_ need to match the Initial Response investment
- Example: FPU has 50 fires a year & 48 of them are lightning there is little chance that the other 2 can be effectively prevented with an increased budget
- But if 75% of the fires are human caused, you might want to increase your prevention effort by more than the ±10% of the preparedness option.

## FPA Prevention Module Overview

- Compares a current prevention program against a larger or smaller prevention program
- Results inform the planner whether the reduction or increase in their prevention program was worth the investment
- Increases or decreases the number of human caused fires by statistical cause by FMU
- Also helps the planner determine and display where and how their prevention investment is best spent

## General Actions

_**Includes:**_
**Fair booths**
**Public Education**
**Advertising**
**Parades**

- Activities that have an effect over the entire FPU
- The number of hours is lumped for the entire FPU
- General action hours act as a multiplier to the specific action hours
- Includes activities that could reach an entire FPU audience.

## Specific Actions

- Directed at a specific FMU
- Categories:
- Signs
- Patrol
- Inspections
- Hazards
- Law Enforcement
- Administration
- Public Contact & Communities

## Community Actions

**Community Actions**

- Actions designed to reduce human-caused fires for one or more communities
- Uses effectiveness factors to assess how inspections and public contact activities affect the rate of human-caused fires

## Preventability & Effectiveness Factors

- Used to determine the preventability of human caused fires & effectiveness of activities associated with each specific fire cause
- Internally set – cannot be edited by users
- Preventability Factors: assesses the ability to  prevent certain types of human caused fires
- Effectiveness factors: how effective various activities are at preventing fires of specific causes

## Your Role

- Calculate a total cost for each agency partner’s program.
- Costs include the full cost of implementing the program.
- Include vehicles, salaries, advertising, supplies, training, and whatever else you need to implement the program.
- FPA PV will track to total cost and number of FTE’s associated with each program

## Next: Live Demo

## Questions?