Fire Management Ghora Gali Report- June 3rd - 4th

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Held at: Ghora Gali Punjab Forest College, Murree

(June 3 rd -4 th, 2008)

The Ministr of Environments Pakistan


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Training Report on Fire Management i

Our Sponsors

The Pakistan Wetlands Programme is funded by a growing consortium of donors. ByDecember 31 st , 2007, this group included:

The Global Environment Facility

The United Nations Development Programme

The Royal Netherlands Embassy

WWF-Global Network and WWF-Pakistan

The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

The Darwin Initiative

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society


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ii Training Report on Fire Management

Fire Management

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.........................................................................................................................1

2 Background ........................................................................................................................1

3 Forest Fire ..........................................................................................................................1

4 Fire Management ...............................................................................................................1

5 Rational Of The Training Course........................................................................................ 26 Objective Of The Training Course ...................................................................................... 2

7 Training Outcomes ............................................................................................................. 2

8 Training Participants........................................................................................................... 2

9 Training Method..................................................................................................................2

10 Resource Persons...........................................................................................................3

11 Basic Course Outline.......................................................................................................3

12 Sessions Details ..............................................................................................................3

13 Way Forward ...................................................................................................................4

14 Annexure I ....................................................................................................................5

15 Annexure II ...................................................................................................................7

16 Annexure III ..................................................................................................................7

17 Annexure IV..................................................................................................................8

18 Glimpses........................................................................................................................11


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1 Introduction

The Pakistan Wetlands Programmes launched a two days training course on FireManagement. The Training and Capacity Building Component of Pakistan Wetlands

Programme organised this training course. This course was conducted on June 3rd

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, 2008at Ghora Gali Punjab Forest College, Murree.

2 Background

Forests are among the worlds most important ecosystems and a major source of wealth. InPakistan, area under forest cover is 4.22 million hectares, which is equivalent to 4.8% of thetotal land area. Most of this i.e. eighty five percent is public forest, and only 15% is privateforest. Pakistan is a forest-poor country, with only 0.03 hectare of forest per capita ascompared to the world average of 1.0 hectare. Although meagre in area, but still our forestsare very important in providing protective & regulative services, socio-cultural services andmaterial goods. The forests play a critical role in protecting catchment areas of waterreservoirs which generate hydel power and regulate supply of water for the massive irrigationsystem for agriculture.

The forests of Pakistan are under great stress due to tremendous increase in population,cutting of trees for fuel and timber and encroachment of forest lands for expansion inagriculture, forest fires, and human settlements. The forests are also being damaged anddegraded by uncontrolled grazing, trampling and browsing by livestock. This all has resultedin accelerated soil erosion, severe loss of biodiversity, erratic flow of rivers, and unusual highfloods. The damage inflicted by floods in the form of destruction of agricultural crops,infrastructure, life and property has been estimated at Rs 2.5 billion annually. Women areprimarily affected by forest destruction as they are most often responsible for collecting woodand NTFP like fodder, food, vegetable, mushroom, etc, and water. Thus a practicable solution

is needed not only to arrest but reverse this trend of forest loss and its further degradation3 Forest Fire

The forests of Pakistan are continuously on decline due to many reasons but forest fire is oneof the major factors of forest and environmental degradation. The effects of forest fires can bevery destructive, resulting in the loss of human lives, timber and non-timber forest products,livestock, and wild animals, damage to natural resources such as watersheds, biodiversity,wildlife habitat, change in soil texture affecting its water holding capacity and causingimbalance in the ecosystem.

4 Fire Management

Fire Management is defined as the activities concerned with the protection of people,property, and forest areas from wildfire and the use of prescribed burning for the attainment offorest management and other land use objectives, all conducted in a manner that considersenvironmental, social, and economic criteria.

Fire plays an integral role in the management of our parks and forests. Fire managementneeds to be conducted with an understanding of both the role fire plays in biodiversitymaintenance, and with the threats it can pose to life and property. Park and forestmanagement must accommodate both the inevitability of wildfire and the planned use of firefor a variety of purposes.


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5 Rational of the training Course

Forest fire prevention and control is the main responsibility of the forest and wildlifedepartments. In the recent years, the occurrence of forest fires has increased causing

immense damage to life, property, ecosystems and communities. As a consequence, it is veryimportant to improve the fire management skills and knowledge of the concerned agenciesand the communities. Keeping in view the importance of forest management the PakistanWetlands Programme (Capacity Building and Training Component) conducted the firemanagement training course in the light to improve the fire management skills and knowledgeof the staff of wildlife, forestry departments and communities residing in and around forestsand wetlands.

The fire management training course is developed in the light the objectives of the project toimprove the fire management skills and knowledge of the staff of wildlife, forestry departmentsand communities residing in and around forests and wetlands. The course is divided into twoparts. The theoretical part will cover fire management (fire prevention and control measures),

planning of prescribed burning operations, clearance of fire lines and paths, assessing firedamage and relevant legal aspects. In the practical part the course will cover introduction tofire fighting equipment, its application.

6 Objective of the Training Course

After attending the training course the participants will be able to:

Plan and implement fire prevention and control mechanisms to reduce fire risk.

Sensitize the participants about the importance of the forests and harmfulaffects of the forest fire.

Protect the Wetlands of Pakistan.

understand the importance of forest and manage the emergency responses

understand the reasons and effects of forest fire

7 Training Outcomes

The training was tailored to achieve the following

Practice of different tools, tricks and techniques of fire management

Ability to make fire lines and manage the emergency responses

Surety to protect the forests and forest species and spreading the awarenessamong the masses

8 Training Partic ipants

The Training course registered total of 150 participants from Punjab forest college Ghora Gali,Murree.

9 Training Method

The Fire Management training course Programme was divided in different interactivesessions. These sessions include presentations, lectures, open discussions on specific topicsand practices of taught procedures and field visits. After the theoretical sessions practicalassignments were given to the participants and they practiced learned tools and techniques offire management during their extensive field visits to the (Joining areas of Numal) Gilgit .All


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the participants contributed with their best efforts in understanding and then practicing theknowledge.

10 Resource Persons

The training course has been for the field staff of forest and wildlife department students. Thetraining course registered total of 150 participants from Ghora Gali Punjab Forest College,Murree.

11 Basic course outl ine

Importance of forests

Forest fires

Effects of forest fires

Causes of forest fires

Classification of fires Factors contributing spread of fires

Integrated fire management

Fire prevention measures

Situation analysis

Awareness raising/education of communities

Communication and reporting

Fire fighting techniques

Forest fire regulations12 Sessions Details

After the registration completion and welcome address the training course started with theintroduction of Pakistan wetlands programme and purpose of conducting the training courseon forest fire management. After programme and course introduction the participants wereintroduced with each other and the training team. Each day was divided in to four interactivesessions including the lectures and demonstrations, open discussion, Practical exercises andthe field visits. The first day sessions revealed the importance of forests, forest fire and itsmanagement, fire management and its complete structure and precautionary measures to firemanagement.

The second day sessions includes the lectures and practices on fire control. The sessionsequipped the participants with general measures of fire management. The other sessionsincludes the fire management structure with indigenous people coordination and cooperation.The participants also practiced the use of tools for fire management. The third day focused onthe lectures, brain storming activities and field visits. During the third days sessions specialemphasis was given on fire line making and its restoration. For this purpose the participantswere taken to the field visits.

At the end of the training course certificates were distributed among the participants. Thefeedback of the participants was recorded on the evaluation forms distributed daily among theparticipants for registering their comments on various sessions and overall training arrangements.


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13 Way Forward

The course served the purpose of raising the capacity and imparting the skills necessary forfire management. The contents taught were highly appreciated by the participants and

several requests have been received to conduct series of courses on fire management for thewildlife departments and conservation organisations. The same course will be organized inthe four provinces to equip the professionals.

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14 Annexure I

Table 1: Training ParticipantsSr # Name Sr # Name1 Yasir Mehmood 76 Rauoof Ahmed2 Zahir ud-Din Babar 77 Muhammad Imran3 Ansar Mehmood 78 Ansar Mehmood4 Muhammad Atif 79 Muhammad Ishfaq5 Intekhab Abbasi 80 Nasir Ali6 Muhammad Khurshid 81 Rana Babar Riaz Shahzad7 Syed Zafar Abbas 82 Salman Rabani8 Muhammad Sohail 83 Abdul Rahman9 Rashid Mehmood 84 Shakil Ahmed

10 Hafiz Sajjad Ahmed Khan 85 Muhammad Afzal11 Abdul Tawab 86 Syed Mudassar Ali Shah12 Arshad Iqbal 87 Iftikhar Ahmed13 Noor Alam Khan 88 Aqrar Hussain14 Muhammad Imran 89 Sabar Hussain15 Hizrullah Niazi 90 Irfan Shahzad16 Fakhar Ullah Khan 91 Muhammad Nawaz17 Imran Haider 92 Mehmood -Ul - Hassan18 Mohsin Raza 93 Sarvar Hussain19 Asad Abbas Shah 94 Liaqat Ali

20 Shamshad Rasool 95 Muhammad Shahzad Rasheed21 Sagheer Ahmed 96 Irfan Ali22 Ajmal Shahzad 97 Zafar Iqbal23 Muhammad Latif 98 Khalid Masih24 Muhammad Rafiq 99 Muhammad Asif25 Sohail Mustafa 100 Asghar26 Rana Shahbaz 101 Shahid Akram27 Muhammad Imran 102 Muhammad Yousaf28 Zahid Hussain 103 Shahid Silamat Rindhawa29 Muhammad Sajid 104 Shahbaz Khan30 Safad Ali 105 Ghulam Mustafa31 Umar Fariq 106 Ghulam Haider32 Muhammad Yasin 107 Naveed Ali33 Wajid Hussain 108 Zahid Ali34 Hafiz Muhammad Amjad 109 Kaleem Ullah35 Ansar Mehmood 110 Taeed Usman36 Muhammad Naveed Pasha 111 Shahzad Ahmed37 Muhammad Iqbal 112 Ramash Poran38 Ibrar Azim 113 Hamid Ali39 Asif Mehmood 114 Ansar Iqbal40 Muhammad Asim 115 Faisal Bashir


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Sr # Name Sr # Name41 Naeem Akhtar 116 Amir Noman42 Qamar Ali 117 Adnan Asad43 Haseeb Ali 118 Faiz Ahmed44 Saqib Abbas 119 Muhammad Asim45 Shujahat Hussain 120 Lukman46 Habib Mehmood 121 Zahoor Hussain47 Allah Yar Khan 122 Amanat Ali48 Akhtar Nawaz 123 Hummun Akram49 Sadaqat Hussain 124 Muhammad Usman50 Muhammad Faisal 125 Fakhar Ahmed51 Shahid Manzoor 126 Nasir Ali52 Muhammad Ijaz 127 Allah Ditta53 Zahid Mehmood 128 Tahir Munir Faraz

54 Sajid Hussain 129 Safeer Abbas55 Kamran Abdullah 130 Muhammad Asif Javeed56 Muhammad Shahzad 131 Muhammad Asif Hameed57 Hasan Riaz 132 Muhammad Salman58 Shams - Ud -Din 133 Muhammad Ashraf59 Khizar Nisar Satee 134 Shafqat Ijaz60 Muhammad Sarfraz 135 Syed Amir Raza Shah61 Asif Iqbal 136 Muhammad Rizwan62 Faisal Mehmood 137 Waseem Sajjad63 Babar Hussain 138 Majid Mehmood

64 Faisal Arshad 139 Khan Ghzanfar Abbas65 Rasheed Mehmood 140 Rafi - ullah66 Noman Rasheed 141 Muhammad Taqi Shah67 Sarfraz Ahmed 142 Muhammad Usman68 Nazar Hussain 143 Rashid Minhas69 Muhammad Hafiz 144 Jamil Ahmed70 Izhar 145 Babar Ali Khan71 Wasal Ahmed 146 Attiq Ahmed72 Ansar Mehmood 147 Mudassir Ahmed73 Hafaz Nadar Khan 148 Muhammad Saleem74 Jamshed Zaman 149 Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan75 Tanveer Hussain


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15 Annexure II

Training Team

Table 2: Training Team

Sr # Name Designation Organization

1 Mr. Tahir Mehmood. Coordinator, Capacity Buildingand Training Component Pakistan Wetlands Programme

2 Raja Tariq Mehmood Senior Trainer Consultant

3 Malik Nazir Ahmed Senior Trainer Consultant4 Shareen.J.Mall HR Officer Pakistan Wetlands Programme

5 Nazreen Ahmed Training Facilitator Pakistan Wetlands Programme

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Training Programme

Table 3: Session PlanTime Day 1 Day 2

09:00-11:00Introduction of Pakistan Wetlands Programme Participants registrationIntroduction and Objective

Fire Control

General measures of firemanagementFire RestrictionsFire Weather

11:20 1:20 Importance of ForestsForest Fire and Its Management

Fire line making and restorationPractical UseField visit

02:00 03:30Forest Fire control mechanismFire management rules and regulations

Forest Fire control by communityparticipationFire line restoration field visit

03:50 05:20 Safety Precautions for Forest FireOverall Evaluation

Forest Fire tools and equipmentsOverall EvaluationUse of Forest Fire tools and their

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17 Annexure IV

Evaluation SummaryPunjab Forest College, Ghora Gali Murree

June 3 rd 4 th , 2008Rating Criteria: (Poor - 1, Fair - 2, Good - 3, Very Good - 4, and Outstanding - 5)

Table 3: Evaluation Summary

Day Questions Score Rating

Day 1 S I Introduction to Pakistan Wetlands Programme (PWP) (Tahir Mehmood)Q 1 How extensive was the trainer's knowledge of the subject matter? 68 89.00%

Q 2 How effective was the trainer's style? 55 72.00%

Q 3 Did the content meet the training objectives? 67 88.00%

Q 4 How well was the content organised? 64 84.00% 83.00%

SII Introduction to Fire management and its Importance ( Malik Nazir Ahmed)Q 1 How extensive was the trainer's knowledge of the subject matter? 65 85.00%




SIII Effects and Causes of Forest Fire - ( Raja Tariq Mehmood)

Q 1 How extensive was the trainer's knowledge of the subject matter? 69 91.00%

Q 2 How effective was the trainer's style? 67 88.00%Q 3 Did the content meet the training objectives? 56 74.00%


SV Classific ation of forest fire - ( Malik Nazir Ahmed)





SVI Intigrated Fire Management - ( Raja Tariq Mehmood)

Q 1 How extensive was the trainer's knowledge of the subject matter? 55 72.00%Q 2 How effective was the trainer's style? 63 83.00%



Day 2 SI Integrated Fire Management - ( Malik Nazir Ahmed)






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Days Questions Score Rating

SII Fire Prevention Measures - (Raja tariq Mehmood)





SIII Situation Analys is - (Malik Nazir Ahmed)





SIV Situation Analys is - (Raja Tariq Mehmood)





Day 3 SI Fire figh ting techn iques - (Malik Nazir Ahmed)





SII Forest fire regulations - (Raja Tariq Mehmood)





SIII Awareness raising / Community education



Q 3 Did the content meet the training objectives? 60 67.00%Q 4 How well was the content organised? 56 62.00% 63.00%

SIV Factors contribu ting towords the spread of forest fire





Overall traini ng evaluation 3215 81.00%


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Training Evaluation Charts

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18 Glimpses

Figure 4: Trainees are receiving ceritficates

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