5 Reasons Incident Response Needs a Weather Station

“The importance of monitoring weather
and predicting the resultant fire behavior cannot be over-stressed.”
—National Wildfire Coordinating Group Training Manual

With wildfire season in full effect, we are re-sharing our resource "5 Reasons Incident Response Needs a Weather Station" as a reminder that weather stations can provide critical, on-site meteorological information during fire and incident response situations:
  1. Risk Management
  2. Predicting Fire Behavior
  3. Safety
  4. Plume Modeling
  5. Incident Reporting
  6. *Bonus* Drones
We go into depth on each reason at this link.
Want to know more? Visit our website ColumbiaWeather.com or send us an email at info@columbiaweather.com – we’d love to hear from you.

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