An overview of Burned Area Emergency Response

I have been thinking about Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER). In some cases a BAER team will start to their post fire assessment before the wildfire is fully contained. The idea is to be ready to move on post-fire recovery as soon as possible. I hope to be writing about BAER and post-fire recovery on some of this years wildfires (or perhaps last year's wildfires) as time goes on. I thought that a good place to start might be to share a couple of videos on BAER.

The first video is from 2020 discussing the Burned Area Emergency Response on the Holiday Farm Fire that burned over 170,000 acres in the McKenzie River basin in Oregon.

Direct link to video on YouTube

In the second video you will hear from a Botanist about the work Botanists do in BAER.

Direct link to video on YouTube

There is a page on Inciweb for BAER on the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fire that has currently burned 315,830 acres (see this June 1st update on Inciweb)

Here is a screen shot I tooke from the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fire BAER page on Inciweb with an overview of the three phases of wildfire recovery.

Obtained on June 1, 2022 from https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8104/