the competencies of the emergency plans, as well as FA that participates in the operational decision-making from the command structure during the incident. ·
DECISION-MAKING PROCESS PARTICIPATION
The FA generates products that can include operational capabilities and operational deployments with the aim to generate useful information for the incident IC. In the economic and military world, there is a tendency in which the intelligence area focuses on proposing strategy while the operational area assumes it, applies it and deploys it tactically. But in vegetation fires and from the perspective of IC, increasingly the strategy is planned to anticipate what type of operations will be able to be developed in each scenario. The FA can propose and assume the strategy as it is the basis that marks the plan developed by the IC. Therefore, the FA and the IC become part of the same team, with their own co-responsibility, each one with a clearly differentiated participation in the event but both integrated in the same response operation. The degree of responsibility and the impact on decision-making should also be determined when forest fire analysts provide assistance to other organisations.
3.2 Decision-making needs, FA contributions and impacts Organisations make decisions in the face of vegetation fires. Some general needs (Figure 9) are shared among them but entail more specific needs (Table 1). All of them involve making decisions that affect coordination and planning, and ultimately the management and resolution of the emergency. The FAA can help to provide certainty to facilitate this decision making. The analyst can contribute in different ways depending on the needs of the organisation at each moment linked to the decisions. These decisions that are made have an impact and therefore, the contributions from the FA are also linked to this impact, thus there is a responsibility behind them. Table 1 is intended to show links between the needs and decision-making of organisations faced with a vegetation fire, examples of the impact they generate and possible contributions that can be made by the FA. Fire analysis contributions are linked with the fire analysts’ specific knowledge and capacity, but also behaviour and attitude (e.g., behave in a trustworthy manner, ability to take responsibility) and experience in real situations (e.g., analysis in similar situations, participation in real cases). [See Figure 10] Table 1 includes 4 sections that describe general needs of the organisations (highlighted in green) that group the different specific needs and decisions explained below. These 4 general needs (in Figure 9 can occur simultaneously or consecutively, and
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