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Chapter 3—Affected EnvironmentThe Air Force uses the airspace above Fort Greely and the weaponsimpact areas for training activities. The type of aircraft operationsinclude close air support, aerial gunnery, rockets, bombing, trainingflights, and test flights. These activities are conducted within therestricted airspace or along military training routes above Fort Greely.The Air Force has safety procedures in place for the aircraft activitiesabove Fort Greely.Under a Memorandum of Understanding, the Bureau of Land ManagementAlaska Fire Service is responsible for fire detection and suppression onwithdrawn lands. The Alaska Fire Service has a reciprocal Fire ProtectionAgreement with the State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources,Division of Forestry. The Alaska Wildland Fire Management Planestablishes four fire protection options (Bureau of Land Management,1998—Draft Alaska Wildland Fire Management Plan). Land managersmay select among these options, based on the evaluation of theirindividual legal mandates, policies, regulations, resource management,objectives and local conditions. The fire protection status options are: Critical Protection—Lands receive maximum detection coverageand are of highest priorities for attack response (figure 3.8-6). Full Protection—Areas receive maximum detection coverageand immediate and aggressive initial attack response. Modified Protection—A level of protection is provided betweenFull and Limited. Limited Protection—Areas where the values at risk do notwarrant the expense or suppression and are areas wherenatural fire is important to ecosystem sustainability. Restricted—Includes Weapon Impact Areas and other placeswhere no “on the ground” fire fighting can be accomplisheddue to the danger of unexploded ordnance.Nineteen fires of 40 hectares (100 acres) or more occurred on FortGreely from 1954–1997. Two were in the East Training Area andoccurred in 1954 and 1987. The remaining 17 fires were in the FortGreely West Training Area. Ten of the above fires were caused byincendiary devices, and five by lightning. Information on the remainingfour is not available. The U.S. Army Alaska requires a 15-meter (50-foot)firebreak around all facilities.3.8.1.5 Yukon Training Area (Fort Wainwright)—Health and SafetyThis section describes the health and safety concerns for the affectedbase property at the Yukon Training Area and the surrounding area. TheROI for health and safety includes the base and adjacent properties thatcould be affected by the deployment of a GBI or BMC2 at the YukonTraining Area. The area potentially affected off-base would be the3-242 NMD Deployment Final EIS