World Forest Fire & Disaster Management Fund
World forest fire & disaster management fund is a charitable non-profit organization founded on 14 February 2020 with headquarters in Riga, Latvia, EU. The main purpose of the Fund is to manage big forest fires around the world, as well as other natural disasters and their consequences. Also the task of the WFFDMF is to introduce and to disseminate the better, more rational and effective methods of fighting wildfires and nature care.
The Fund is collecting donations as well as collecting or purchasing used and decommissioned fire engines and fire equipment, as well as water, milk & fuel tanks and any other truck chassis or trailers to convert them into the high-capacity fire engines or water tenders to fight large forest fires, especially which are too far from water sources. The more water can it carry the better. The faster can it drive and the more difficult roads can it pass is the better.
Each and every wildfire used to be a small fire that was allowed to grow up. A small fire on it's beginning can be managed even with a single fire engine, but on the second day it's managing may take more than a dozen of fire engines, dozers, a hundred additional men and an in some cases even the aviation.
At the result a lot of the new fires cannot be managed properly just because of all the fire units around are already busy with the huge wildfires that haven't been stopped for weeks ago. In this case adding every next unit to a fire managing team will have a positive effect in geometric progression.
One of the main tasks there is to bring the maximum amount of water to the fire to make the strike fast and furious, not giving any chance to fire spreading around and to become uncontrolled.
If the number of firefighters, fire engines and other extinguishing forces could be equivalent to a number of new wildfires and to it's strength, there would be no such a waste of nature, animal and birds lives, and human lives and health too. And it would be not necessary to spend millions and millions just to minimize these losses after it's already too late. But the world is not perfect. So, that is why every additional man, every additional fire engine or even every ton of water in it are so important.
The primary goal of the Foundation is to prepare a sufficient number of mobile strike teams with fire engines and water tenders in it to help existing local forces to faster overcome the most serious wildfires or just to fight any wildfires near by. As well as to get one or more fully equipped storage, conversion and repair bases. The delivery of the mobile units to the fire area is planned either by its own course, by rail or by sea. At the same time, the Fund counts on the assistance of the countries to which assistance will be provided, both in the transportation of equipment and the supply of fuel, and in the completion of crews if necessary.
The main reason of a creation of a Fund were huge wildfires 2018-2019 in the Russian Federation, Australia, Brazil, California - USA, Greece and Sweden, which became the largest in recent years. Millions of hectares of forest burned down, fire destroyed settlements, and people died. Invaluable damage has been done to the environment, and more than a billion animals have been burned alive or died from injuries.
Carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires in Russia alone in 2019 amounted to 284 million tons, and from fires in Australia in 2019-2020 fire season - more than 250 million tons. A smog from wildfires caught large cities for several months, smoke from fires in Australia reached even New Zealand having reached a distance of almost 2000 kilometers.
