WESTERN FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC

Programs

1. The association provides for the promotion, research, education and development of codes for the purpose of preventing, suppressing and extinguishing fires.

   $2,031,318 spent$321,383 earned by the program
   52% of program spending

2. The public safety cloud is being developed to allow all connected public safety organizations to leverage shared, trusted and timely information.

   $753,571 spent
   19% of program spending

3. Daily dispatch - compiled and distributed a free subscription-based, state-specific electronic newsletter to over 75,000 fire and law enforcement service members each weekday to provide information related to member support, and research, education and development of fire prevention codes.

   $353,593 spent$383,837 earned by the program
   9% of program spending

4. Fire rescue group purchasing organization - a national group purchasing program available to all 50 states which brings cost savings to fire departments across the country. Royalties give back to the states and divisions totaled $9,375 in 2024.

   $347,845 spentof which $118,975 as grants$535,715 earned by the program
   9% of program spending

5. Rapid, scalable outdoor and indoor machine learnings based mapping of fire department pre-plans: wfca's project will test and validate the application of geocam visual mapping system to prove its feasibility to automate city-scale fire pre-plan maps across complex outdoor and indoor environments. They will develop a machine-learning-based product and service that will provide geo-located imagery outdoors and indoors, supporting remote and frequent virtual training for department members and emergency response pre-plans on critical structures within a city. It will also enable participating departments to obtain new information about structural changes on a regular basis to improve on-demand preplanning.

   $175,022 spent$179,622 earned by the program
   5% of program spending

6. The organization also invested in creating a fire map for the public available at their site: www.wfca/fire-map. The western fire chiefs association (wfca) fire map depicts active and recent wildland fires in the western united states and alaska. The fire map draws near real-time 911 dispatch call data from pulsepoint. Emerging and ongoing wildland fire location and boundary data are provided by the national interagency fire center irwin feeds. Firis (california only) provides early fire perimeter and 3 hour forecasting models. Fire dispatch and location data are approximate and no warranty is given as to the accuracy or completeness of the data.

   $112,992 spent$25,000 earned by the program
   3% of program spending

7. Multi-state alignment of local government and the insurance industry on parcel and community level mitigations in the wildland urban interface(wui): the purpose of this grant is to establish key stakeholder alignment in four western states on parcel and community level mitigations that matter in the wildland urban interface (wui). Those key stakeholders are the state fire marshal (or warden), the state insurance regulatory office, the state/regional insurance industry and the state fire chief's association.

   $75,786 spentof which $50,000 as grants
   2% of program spending

8. Wildland urban interface fire response rating(frr): by december 2024, a comprehensive rating methodology of a wui community's initial response capability to prevent conflagration by disrupting fire spread into a community from the immediate vegetative landscape, and within the community from structure to structure spread, will have been developed and piloted as a catastrophe risk and graph theory model mitigation variable against property loss.

   $29,937 spent
   1% of program spending

9. The wildfire initiative (cwr) is directed by the wildfire policy committee to engage in activities that improve the response capabilities of america's fire service to catastrophic wildfires. This is done through targeted events, information sharing, and high-level support of emerging technologies. The program is supported through a consulting service that provides fire service insight to public safety companies. Retired fire chiefs are hired to provide these services as contractors.

   $39,105 earned by the program

10. Wildfire decision and data mapping: the project will examine wildfire management decisions and interventions to develop a decision model identifying workflow, decision points, time needs and relationships between discreet firefighting positions and tasks. The goal is to provide a science based decision model enabling nasa and the wildfire community to align and prioritize investments in sensors and systems, data and data analytics, resilience and pre-event mitigation and operational redesign based on desired outcomes.

11. Wildfire self mitigation incentive research: a project in partnership with oregon state university will conduct field research within the methods approved by the oregon state university institutional review board to study the effectiveness of incentives to promote self-mitigation by property owners in oregon.

12. Wildland urban interface fire response rating(wrr)- to support an integrated system for prioritizing, implementing and tracking science based fire mitigations in vulnerable communities. By june 2025 novel solutions will be developed and implemented for an integrated system that allows at risk communities to be assessed to identify fire pathways, provided with specific fuel treatments inclusive of location, prescription and return interval, and given a mechanism to report progress, understand mitigation return on investment and visualize residual risk through a dynamic community wildfire prevention plan linked to catastrophic risk models.

13. Janus - create an ar system that will display mitigation recommendations to property owners in widely available and user-friendly commercial-off-the-shelf ar interfaces.

The 13 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,880,064.