Among the pictures below you will find some useful links to other pages and to other sites.
More specialised on forest fire fighting, on my forest fire page.
Stockholm Fire Service
was my work place and base for many years. I still miss many of my old work mates. Some of them happens to pass by down in Singapore and Australia .
I worked most of the time with operational command in the field and as Head of the Command & Control Center.
During my years in the fire service I had quite a few very large fires. One was the Sally Albatross. (Right)
One that perhaps left the deepest impact on me, was the Scandinavian Star, 1990. 157 people lost their lives before fire fighters reached her.
The NATO/EADRCC exercise in Croatia - Taming the Dragon, was based on a multi incident scenario with center of gravity in forest fire.
In Russia NATO/EADRCC did a large scale international emergency response exercise called Bogorodsk 2002. The scenario was based on a chemical plant explosion due to a terrorist attack.
In Uzbekistan, the big emergency coordination excersise Fergana 2003, focused on search and rescue due to an earth quake scenario.
Right:
View, from a helicopter, of the Indonesian forest on fire. Working in the Indonesian forest, fighting fires, meant among other problems, moving over big areas. When we got helicopters we got more successful. Photo; Bradford M. Sanders
Click the above logo for ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) to see the latest forest fire stiuation, as viewed by the satellites.
Still the hard and dirty work has to be done by fire fighters. To begin with, badly equipped and trained. As the improvements went on, capacity increased.
Training gave result. Fire crews became more efficient.
Click the fire picture to proceed to my forest fire fighting page.
With modern equipment they could give full effect in their efforts to fight the fires.
Still, the problem with the Indonesian forest fires is the underlying causes to the fires.
Helicopters patrolled sensitive areas, with ultra light equipped fire patrols, ready for immediate attack.
Staff briefing
750 personnel, fighting the forest fires, over an area as large as Singapore, for more then a month, supported by helicopters. Planning is essential.
Helicopter type MI8
used for water bombing of the fires. 5,000 liters in every drop. Still you feel small when the fire comes sweeping through the forest.
Last day with the force in Sumatra's forest.
The crowd of people had become a fire fighting force. I honour many of these little guys who worked hard and achieved results.
Major Emergency Management
aims to prepare the offshore industry for extraordinary situations, and focus on the decision-making process.
Risk Management is about identifying och treating risks where the result is best.
