9. Elk Creek IRSC Fire Plan.pdf
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This document is a fire safety plan for a Forest Service timber sale or contract at Elk Creek IRSC that establishes comprehensive fire prevention and suppression requirements for contractors operating in the sale area.
The plan mandates strict smoking restrictions, allowing smoking only inside buildings, developed recreation sites, vehicles, or cleared areas of at least three feet in diameter. All internal combustion engines must be equipped with spark arresters meeting Department of Agriculture Forest Service standard 5100 or SAE standards, and proper factory-designed muffler systems. Each piece of equipment including tractors, trucks, yarders, loaders, welders, generators, and stationary engines must carry a minimum 5# ABC fire extinguisher rated 3A-40BC, a 48-inch round-pointed shovel, and either a 3.5-pound double-bit axe or sharp pulaski. Power saws require an 8-ounce chemical-pressurized fire extinguisher and shovel that must remain readily available to operators, with refueling requiring cleared areas and 10-foot separation before starting.
Additional requirements include special restrictions for blasting and welding operations based on humidity levels, with blasting prohibited below 20% humidity unless specially authorized and requiring watchmen with water backpacks when humidity falls below 50%. Flammable materials must be stored in separate buildings or cleared sites with 25-foot radius clearance and 50-foot separation from other structures. Camp fire protection mandates 20-foot clearance around all structures, with wood-burning stoves requiring spark arresters and proper clearances from combustible materials. The Forest Service retains authority to designate campfire locations and prescribe additional precautionary measures during periods of critical fire danger.
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ELK CREEK IRSC FIRE PLAN
1. Smoking and Lunch Fires. Smoking is prohibited except inside a building, developed recreation site, vehicles, or while seated in an area of at least three feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable materials. 36 CFR 261.52(d).
The building of camp, lunch, warming and other fires within the sale area and vicinity is prohibited, except at established camps or at other safe places where all flammable material has been cleared away sufficiently to prevent the start and spread of wildfires. Forest Service may, upon written request of contractor, designate specific places where campfires may be built for purposes of heating lunches.
2. Spark Arrester and Mufflers. Operating or using any internal combustion engine, on any timber, brush, or grass covered land, including trails and roads traversing such land, without a spark arrester, maintained in effective working order, meeting either (I) Department of Agriculture, Forest Service standard 5100, "SPARK ARRESTERS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES," (current edition); or (II) the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Recommended Practices J335, "MULTIPOSITION SMALL ENGINE EXHAUST SYSTEM FIRE IGNITION SUPPRESSION," (current version) and J350, 36 CFR 261.52(j) is prohibited.
Passenger carrying vehicles, pickups, medium and large highway trucks (80,000 GVW) will be equipped with a factory designed muffler system which is specified for the make and model of the respective vehicle/truck or with a muffler system that is equivalent or that exceeds factory specifications.
Exhaust systems shall be properly installed and continually maintained in serviceable condition.
3. Fire Extinguishers and Tools on Equipment. While in use, each internal combustion engine including tractors, trucks, yarders, loaders, welders, generators, stationary engines, or comparable powered equipment shall be provided with at least the following:
(a) One fire extinguisher, at least 5#ABC with an Underwriters Laboratory (UL) rating of 3A - 40BC, or greater.
(b) One shovel, sharp, size O or larger, round-pointed with an overall length of at least 48 inches.
(c) One axe, sharp, double bit 3-1/2#, or one sharp pulaski.
Extinguishers, shovels, axes, and pulaskis shall be mounted so as to be readily available from the ground. All tools shall be maintained in a serviceable condition.
4. Power Saws. Each gasoline engine power saw shall be provided with one chemical-pressurized fire extinguisher of not less than 8-ounce capacity by weight, and one size O or larger, round-pointed shovel with an overall length of at least 48 inches. The extinguisher and shovel shall be maintained in good working order. The extinguisher shall be with the power saw operator and immediately available for use at all times. The extinguisher shall not be affixed to the saw. The shovel shall be readily available to the operator of the saw at all times. Having the shovel with the gas can used to refuel the saw may be considered "readily available" if not more than 200 feet from the saw. During periods of critical fire danger, Forest Service may prescribe other precautionary measures.
Any fueling or refueling of a power saw shall be done in area which has first been cleared of material which will carry fire. The power saw shall be moved at least 10 feet from the place of fueling or refueling before starting.
5. Blasting and Welding. The use of fuses in blasting shall not be permitted except near power lines where the danger of accidental detonation is present, and then only by special written permission of Forest Service. Whenever the relative humidity falls below 50 percent, Contractor shall place a watchman at each point where blasting is done who shall remain on duty for at least one hour after blasting is finished, and who shall be equipped with shovel and a water-filled backpack can equipped with a hand pump. During periods when the relative humidity falls below 20 percent, blasting shall be discontinued unless authorized, with special provisions, in writing by Forest Service.
Blasting shall not be permitted in any area not cleared to mineral soil without advance written approval of Forest Service and with such special precautions as may be required.
Prima Cord shall not be used in clearing operations, and in other areas where timber has been felled and slash not burned.
Unless otherwise directed in writing by Forest Service, all flammable material shall be cleared for 10 feet around any piece of equipment being welded. In addition, Contractor shall provide a fire extinguisher of a size and type designed to extinguish a fire in the flammable materials surrounding the spot being welded.
In order to determine the relative humidity, Contractor shall either (a) provide and maintain weather instruments, that will measure relative humidity, in the area where blasting will occur; or (b) provide communications to obtain weather data from Forest Service.
Explosives shall be stored at all times in a locked box marked "Explosives". Powder and blasting caps shall be stored in separate boxes.
6. Storage of Flammables. Gasoline, oil, grease and other highly flammable material shall be stored either in a separate building, or at a site where all debris is cleared within a radius of 25 feet. Storage buildings or sites shall be a minimum distance of 50 feet from other structures. Storage buildings shall be adequately posted to warn of the flammables and to prohibit smoking in or around the building.
7. Camp Fire Protection. The grounds around all trailers, buildings, other facilities constructed or placed on or near Contract Area shall be kept free of flammable material for a distance of at least 20 feet from the wall of such structure. Burning of such flammable material shall be as prescribed by Forest Service in writing.
Stovepipes of all wood burning stoves shall be equipped with suitable roof jacks and serviceable spark arresters.
Stovepipes shall be no closer than 2 feet from any wood or other flammables unless adequately protected from by metal or asbestos shields.
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