Aerial Fire Fighting
Conference & Exhibition
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Anaheim, California, USA
19 & 20th February 2009

Introduction

North America is probably the most integrated aerial fire fighting community on the planet and international aerial firefighters and governments have much to learn from USA & Canadian wildfire-fighting experiences.  With Central & South America also growing their capabilities to safeguard their tropical forests, savannahs and agricultural lands from wildfire this massive region of the Americas is a hotbed of aerial fire fighting aircraft, technologies, tactics and operational experience.

Following in the slipstream of its sister event in Athens, Greece, the Aerial Firefighting USA conference and exhibition is the first dedicated event on the American continent to address both the fixed and rotary winged elements of aerial fire fighting at a global level.  Lessons learned will be highlighted from USA, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, with contributions from Asia including Taiwan, South Korea and Japan and experiences from Europe and many other countries under attack from wildfires on an annual basis. 

In Association with: 

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Response (UN-ISDR)

Global Fire Monitoring Centre (GFMC)

International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF)

Recent years have seen operational tragedies and a call for the raising of safety and operational standards has become paramount.  This conference will aportion credible time to this subject, as well as operational, tactical and financial issues - it will also touch upon the wider issue of the use of aircraft, particularly helicopters,  to attack fires occuring in high-rise buildings.