Improving the effectiveness of management
responses to unprescribed fires in the MMNR is an
essential complement to the improvements in fire management
and control set out in the MMNR Fire Management
Action Plan. In
order to achieve this, a number of lookouts will be established at
key locations around the MMNR to help with the early
detection and reporting of fire outbreaks in the area. Key training
needs and critical equipment shortfalls that are impacting
on the ability of staff to detect or combat fire will also
be identified and addressed. In addition, there are a
number of organisations that now provide emails
alerting managers of fire outbreaks in specified protected
areas (such as the University of Maryland under the
Fire Information for Resource Management System). These
will be investigated and, if appropriate, utilised byMMNR
management to help improve responses to fires either within or in
the vicinity of the MMNR.
