GFMC: International Wildland Fire Response Operators and Material Suppliers
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Related Information for International Wildfire Emergency Assistance:
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Editorial Note by GFMC: This webpage dates back to the late 1990s, at a time when the WWW was not yet advanced and search engines not yet available. A few updates have been made since then. For historic reasons, this webpage is maintained.
The following companies or organizations are collaborating with the Global Fire Monitoring Center in providing fire fighting assistance in large wildland fire emergencies. Additional addresses have been taken from the World Wide Web. A list of international wildland fire experts available for rapid assessment, training and response missions is on file at the GFMC.
Note: The deployment / involvement of international fire management experts by GFMC and its partners (notably in cooperation with focal points of the UNISDR Global Wildland Fire Network) for wildfire emergency assessment and / or coordination of response has been realized in a number of cases through cooperative agreements with countries or the United Nations (UNEP/OCHA), e.g., the Ethiopia fire emergency in 2000, Viet Nam 2002, Peru 2006; Armenia/Azerbaijan 2006; Kosovo 2007.
I. International Response Groups Cooperating with the GFMC
- Working on Fire International
- Global Emergency Response (GER)
- Evergreen International Aviation
- HELOG Emergency Response – Appropriate Responses in Wildland Fire Emergency Situations
- Integrated Fire Management Expert Group IFMEG
- 10 Tanker Air Carrier
- Avialesookhrana the Aerial Forest Protection Service, Federal Forest Service of Russia
- Helion Procopter Industries
- BETA-AIR / Aerospace Project Development Group
- Czech Flying Firefighting Group
- Polish Fire Fighting Aircraft Dromader Internationally Available
- Daedalus Airborne Bispectral Imager for mapping complex fires
II. Other Wildland Fire Management Services
Sweden
III. Other Aerial Wildland Firefighting Services
Canada
- CanadAir CL-415 Super Scooper:
https://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/bombardier_415/
South Africa
- Kwazulu Natal Fire Protection Association: http://www.firestop.co.za/
- Zululand Fire Protection Services: http://zfpa.co.za
U.S.A.
- Global SuperTanker Services, LLC: http://www.globalsupertanker.com/
- Erickson Air Crane: http://www.ericksonaircrane.com/
- Aero Union Corporation: http://www.aerounion.com/
- Airspray: https://www.airspray.com
- The Associated Airtanker Pilots: http://airtanker.org
- American Helicopter Services and Aerial Firefighting Association (AHSAFA): https://www.ahsafa.org
- Aerial Firefighting Industry Association (AFIA): http://users.erols.com/afia/index.html
IV. Suppliers of Firefighting Equipment
The following list will be expanded gradually. It will include those commercial suppliers that either have firefighting equipment on stock or readily available through their system.
