CLIMATE CHANGE MAKES TRADITIONAL
SUPPRESSION NOT WORK EXCEPT ON
Easy fires. America alone is losing 20,000 homes a year, with hundreds of deaths and entire towns destroyed. Worldwide, it’s worse—and it’s only growing. Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, Europe—all face a grim reality, and the future looks even worse..
CLIMATE CHANGE MAKES TRADITIONAL
SUPPRESSION NOT WORK EXCEPT ON
Easy fires. America alone is losing 20,000 homes a year, with hundreds of deaths and entire towns destroyed. Worldwide, it’s worse—and it’s only growing. Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, Europe—all face a grim reality, and the future looks even worse.
About Troop
We developed, manufacture & sell the “BEST” Wildfire Tools in the world for all vegetation fires. High Quality, light weight, rugged, versatile. We consolidated & improved some 14 traditional fire tools, into less awkward, stowable, balanced tools engineered to last an entire career. First use pays in saved labor, logistics/admin costs. Saves Billions over Gov’t supplied fire shovels, Pulaski, McLeod, Rhinehart, mud flap beater, Fire Rake, combi-tool. We developed the only Universal Wildfire Mitigation/Survival Blueprint Scheme, to use in conjunction, with the “Dragon Wizz wheel” to save people and homes from Extreme Fire Storms, too Strong and Fast Moving to Fight and stop before they destroy
Everything.
Above is The Universal Blueprint. It depicts how you prepare critical sites that you want to endure the passage of a fire storm. You manage all vegetation into a Savanna, or park like setting with heavy fuels thinned, pruned, well-spaced, all kindling type clutter cleared out. This is well managed “Defensible Space”. Then, set in 3, down-to-mineral soil. Circular, meandering, “Dragon Rings”. First one 6’-10’ around foundation of structure. 2 nd one 2’-3’ wide 100 feet out from house. 3 rd Dragon Ring another 100 feet out from second Dragon Ring.
This is a “Dragon Wizz Wheel”. A small, plastic, Training and Remember Guide. The bottom base board has a, “Universal Blueprint” printed on it, showing house, Defensible space, & 3 Dragon Rings encircling what you want to survive. There is a clear plastic disk with a wind arrow and 2 semi-circle red dots printed on this clear plastic disk. The disk is riveted in the center of the house so that the disk with arrow and red dots spin so that the red dots always stay outside the Dragon Rings. This devise shows the mitigator, where to lay friendly, small flames from a self-starting propane plumbers torch or drip torch. This allows a trained mitigator to always control flame lengths no matter how high the drought code is or how strong the winds are. All you do is use the wind, the prepared cauldron, and fire to create an instant Black ground, “SAFETY HARBOR AREA”. To use the Dragon Wizz Wheel. It shows, where to lay fire safely and always do a “Controlled, Escape Fire”: It allows you to always control flame length …no matter wind strength or drought code or relative humidity.
TO USE DRAGON WIZZ WHEEL:
Stand in front of your real, on the ground home, and prepared Universal Blueprint. Put your Dragon Wizz Wheel on the horizontal, waist high. Then turn the Wind Arrow, so that it is in harmony with the on-site winds. In this case the fire storm is coming from the lower left -hand corner of the picture. All you do is go to the real-world blueprint, and lay fire just a few inches in front of the real world dragon Rings. Ignite both semi-circles of red dots. These semi-circle dots of fire blow into the Dragon Rings and go out. Continue striping ever larger bites of unburned fuel until an entire Black Donut forms in between the two outer Dragon
Rings.
Next proceed to upwind side of dragon Ring around foundation of home and proceed to burn off all fuels between foundation and already formed Black Donut.
We developed the Dragon Wizz Wheel, because none of the experienced 20 – 30 experienced smokejumpers could figure out how and, where to begin laying out the black-lining….. of the 3 circular control lines.
As a fun description of the new method of keeping control of flame length in a safe, systematic, scheme the jumpers started calling it the “Black Donut of Death” or more exactly…..”Troop’s Black Donut of Death Scheme”
The basic truth was the combining of Sun Tzu’s Military 360 defensive circular shaping of the Battle Space; With the Fire Fighters basic “the only complete fire-line is Black Line, and modifying Wagner Dodge’s uncontrolled emergency Escape Fire into an engineered, more exact, “Controlled Escape Fire, BLACK DONUT SCHEME”
BACKGROUND:
Troop: drafted into military, served 3 years 1968, 69 & 70 in Vietnam with Marine Corps as an infantry officer, then later as a tactical air controller, where he used fire as a weapon in Agent Orange Areas. Here was learned a perspective fire fighters never perceive.
Spent 24 years as a Smokejumper 526 round and ram air, rough terrain parachute jumps throughout different fuel types all over Alaska, Canada, Western US states and even Eastern Deciduous Forests throughout the Ozark Mountain States and the Appalachian Mountain Chain Which posed as the most dangerous smokejumper operations. This range of different fuels and conditions gave troop the background to develop better fire hand tools, that the equipment development centers inside the U.S. Forest Service just did not have the practical experience or interest to properly understand, where the culture needed to be advanced into. The future changing fire conditions shouted for change in tools.
With these contributions combined with troop’s humble experiences in war and smokejumper operations there came into being, a Safe Mitigation/Survival Scheme that could be easily conveyed to both fire fighters and lay people who knew nothing of what had been developed by smokejumpers and Native Americans in the wilds of Alaska.
conditions of drought code and relative humidity. The Dragon Wizz Wheel showed and explained it all clearly.
The Story Unfolds
Billions were made available, but a REAL solution needed to be found, before hand-out of cash. An effective method to Eliminate loss. Congress concluded no one in the federal fire Agencies knew what to do…. just thin, prune forest, Do more prescribed fire …. on an on.
“WILDFIRE MITIGATION & FIRE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE” Their task was to come up with a safe, practical mitigation scheme to chart a way to mitigate fires too strong to fight and stop. They failed to create a fix or solution. Therefore, Dragonslayers created this universal Wildfire Blueprint, and the Dragon Wizz Wheel to show firefighters and civillians how to wildfire survival firestorms.
RATHER IT IS A HOMELAND SECURITY, Military Fire Attack & DEFENSE MATTER. “THE ART OF WAR” “written 2,000 years ago by a Chinese General, SUN TZU, warned in his last paragraph of Chapter XII, “FIRE ATTACK”, “It is all well and good to know how to attack by fire, but it is imperative to know what to do if you are attacked by fire”
- Americans did good using fire in the Attack, but never heeded SUN TZU ‘ s final suggestion.
- Dragonslayer’s simple Universal Wildfire Blueprint and Dragon Wizz Wheel needs to become operational.
Finally, DragonSlayers.com proposes the ‘fix’ or ‘solution’ Congress asked for—a dramatic, living, instant life- and structure-saving scheme to prepare and train people to save their own home.
This small plastic training and remember tool shows the firefighter or homeowner exactly where to lay friendly fire in front of the 3 circular dragon rings, (Permanent, Meandering, Circular Control Lines)
USING DRAGON WIZZ WHEEL, AND FIRE TO BLACK-LINE DRAGON RINGS, To burn off all calories in dry straw to save paper training house, 25 MPH wind, one foot wide Dragon Rings.
THE UNIVERSAL WILDFIRE HAND TOOL KIT MAKES EACH FIRE FIGHTER OR HOME OWNER 3 TIMES SAFER, 3 TIMES MORE VERSATILE, 3 TIMES MORE PRODUCTIVE, AND EFFECTIVE.
Dragonslayers created a market among the elite fire fighter that says they want these new lighter, stronger, better balanced. more versatile and effective fire & wildfire tools. They want to buy factory direct, so change the tool system away from awkward, fixed, obsolete, single function tools that cannot be broken down to fit in their travel bags. Dragonslayers fire tools are right for the future in all manner of ways. They just are what most fire dogs want.
DRAGONSLAYERS WILDFIRE SURVIVAL/MITIGATION BLUEPRINT
Above is The Universal Blueprint. It depicts how you prepare critical sites that you want to endure the passage of a fire storm. You manage all vegetation into a Savanna, or park like setting with heavy fuels thinned, pruned, well-spaced, all kindling type clutter cleared out. This is well managed “Defensible Space”. Then, set in 3, down-to-mineral soil. Circular, meandering, “Dragon Rings”. First one 6’-10’ around foundation of structure. 2 nd one 2’-3’ wide 100 feet out from house. 3 rd Dragon Ring another 100 feet out from second Dragon Ring.
DRAGONSLAYERS DRAGON WIZZ WHEEL TRAINING/REMEMBER TOOL
A small plastic base board with a Universal Blueprint on it. Atop the tiny picture is a clear plastic disk with a wind arrow and 2 semi circles of fire attached to the arrow. A rivet attaches the center of the arrow right over the little house, so the disk and arrow spins freely. To use the device to show the mitigator, where to lay fire, stand in front of the thing you want to survive the oncoming fire storm. Hold the Wizz Wheel on the horizontal. Next orientate the wind arrow so that it is in harmony with the on site wind. The little semi-circles of fire will line up in front of the outer Circular Dragon Ring and outside the middle Dragon Ring, The Wizz Wheel shows exactly where to lay fire on the ground out on the real Blueprint in the real world. The wind will blow, the just ignited flames into the Dragon Rings and go out. The mitigator keeps stripping larger and larger bites of ground fuel until the entire ground between the two outer Dragon Rings is all BLACK. The Smokejumpers first using/testing this scheme called the procedure the Black Donut of death, To reduce loss we will have to make this a common habit.
Mission Statement
CLIMATE CHANGE SLOWLY SNUCK UP ON US CREATING EVER MORE STRONGER, FASTER, KILLER WILDFIRE PROTECTION STORMS. TRADITIONAL SUPPRESSION METHODS WERE FAILING MORE & MORE OFTEN. IF SUPPRESSION FAILS, WE NEED TO MITIGATE. THIS MESSAGE IS ABOUT A COMMON SENSE SKILL SET TO PREPARE YOUR HOME OR TOWN SET IN WILDLAND FUELS TO PARRY AN EXTREME WILDFIRE STORM, MAKE IT PASS, AND DO NO HARM. A FIX TO ELIMINATE LOSS FOR ENTIRE CULTURE
The U.S. Senate realized we needed some way to make our protection forces better able to protect people and structures. Make them more survivable, always instantly ready to endure killer fire storms. Congress had doubke diget Billions of dollars to make our country adapt to greatly reduce the losses. They called in the reps from our federal fire agencies and our major federal land manage-ment folks to specifically find out if they had a plan or had any idea of what had to be done. At first they all said they knew what had to be done. However they failed to convince our Senate’s Natural Resources and Energy Committee, that anyone had a scheme,
that would be PRACTICAL, SYSTEMATIC, SAFE & EFFECTIVE.
A STRATEGIC WILDFIRE MITIGATION DOCTRINE
A Simple, Safe, Basic, One Day, Outdoor, S- 101 landscaping for Wildfire Storm Mitigation Qualification Course, needs to be offered to fire agencies and interface dwelleres.