bilities and positions so that the incident command can choose between alternative strategic scenarios and can direct the firefighting. Thus, FA transforms information and data to well-prepared knowledge, to specific ways of proceeding and ‘know-how’ inside organisations, facilitating that the command staff focuses better on his/her task avoiding noise. Therefore, often there is a distribution of tasks in which everyone assumes different responsibilities inside a team and necessarily involves creating a system of trust between the different figures. The FA is mentioned here as an individual, but stable teams can be formed with different vegetation fire analysts performing different tasks working together with the same vision (some in the command and control room, some in forward command centres, some in the field, etc.). This teams can be useful in critical situations and events. It is not the purpose of this guide to explain how organisations can carry out this process. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that in some cases the analysis team has been integrated directly both in the Command Staff or Planning Section to propose strategical scenarios, and into the Operations Section, or as a General Section to facilitate the link between strategical and tactical decision-making, while in other cases it has opted for an integrated interaction but outside the operations unit.
1.3.3. Decision-making process (reasoning, methodologies and scopes) Organisations use reasoning to deal with situations. The reasoning process in vegetation fires (section 1.3.2.1) helps defining the scenario and the actions to be performed on it. Based on this, different methodologies can be used to make decisions (section 1.3.2.2). These decisions taken in the management of forest fires through the different methodologies can be grouped according to whether they make reference to the different scopes in the decision-making process (section 1.3.2.3): mission, vision, position or capacity. This grouping helps to structure the logical achievement of the emergency management and to assess the needs that an organisation must manage in the scenario.
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