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Decision Services

Southern Area Decision Support Center (DSC)

The purpose of the DSC is to provide fire behavior analysis, decision documentation, and facilitate ordering appropriate decision support personnel to incidents. This allows for critical decision support in relatively short time frames.

Southern Area Decision Support Group

Primary Business Address
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Phone: 555-555-5555
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Wildfire Decision Support Services

Products and Ordering Procedures

Southern Are Decisions Support Group
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Decision Support Center

Goals
Work for the SA-MAC (when activated; when not activated, a DSC may be formed by any Agency to provide support).
Provide fire behavior predictions, incident fire behavior analyses, and maps of fire activity for the SA-MAC.
Ensure consistency with guidelines each Agency by working with Regional Agency contacts on policies and procedures.
Initiate analyses on the request of local units for emerging incidents without regard to agency.
Provide general WFDSS documentation expertise, as requested by local units.
Facilitate ordering of fire behavior specialists for specific incidents, as requested by the local unit or their SA-MAC representative.
Support the SA-MAC, as requested.

Products
The Decision Support Center can provide incidents with the following products and support:
Fire behavior forecasts and models: used to project fire growth, probability of a fire reaching critical points, fire intensity and severity.
Fire decision support : to assist in documenting wildfire decisions in WFDSS that consider Agency objectives, risk management, a nd provide clear direction to Incident Management Teams.
Cost
The Decision Support Group is staffed at the Southern Area Coordination Center. Base funding is provided by a Geographic Area Support Code. Incident-specific support (time) will be charged to the requesting unit. Cost will vary by needs, but typical cost for a calibrated analysis is less than $250.
Analysts assigned to an incident (in lieu of the DSC) will charge all expenses to the incident.
Ordering Procedure

Southern Area Decision Support Group

Primary Business Address
Your Address Line 2
Your Address Line 3
Your Address Line 4

Phone: 555-555-5555
Fax: 555-555-5555
E-mail: someone@example.com