Fire in Practice - Rob Gazzard - Developing wildfire and prescribed fire training in the UK

The Leverhulme Wildfires "Fire in Practice" series brings to you speakers from across the world, with the aim to explore the developments and challenges in the 'real world’ of landscape fire, and also reflecting on the role and opportunities of research in addressing some of the issues. See the 2021/22 programme here: centreforwildf....
In this webinar (March 2022) Rob Gazzard, the Forestry Commission’s Advisor on Contingency Planning and Wildfire in the Policy Advice Team, presents "Developing wildfire and prescribed fire training in the UK'
Since 1999 Rob has attended over 10 large wildfire incidents in the South of England, undertaking training and operational responses globally, including North America (Oregon and California) and Europe (Spain and Portugal), as well as a sabbatical to Australia. He was one of only two UK members in the EU Civil Protection Mechanism as Technical Advisor and Operations Commander. Rob was also Team Leader of the UK’s first official international wildfire deployment using a bilateral agreement to Greece in 2018. He is a founding member of the England and Wales Wildfire Forum, and joint-coordinator of the UK Wildfire Research Group, an Advisor to Central Government and official SAGE member.
Rob's talk focuses on the development, engagement, implementation and future of accredited vegetation fire training for land managers, forester and researchers in the UK and Republic of Ireland