Jim Brenner

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  Published on: 5/6/2008    Last Visited: 5/9/2008  

  There are two fires in the marshy areas of Lake Okeechobee that are burning, one is in the grass islands and is burning about 2,000 acres and the other 1,500 are in the Myakka Cut, said Jim Brenner, fire management administrator for the Florida Division of Forestry.
  
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  "These are very marshy areas so it is impossible for our people to get to it," Brenner said."We are managing any problems with the smoke and that's all we are able to do at this time."
  
  Brenner said the fire in the grass islands is threatening a small hunting camp that is on stilts, but no homes or other properties are being threatened.

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  In an Associated Press report, Jim Brenner, fire management administrator for the state Division of Forestry says "The state as a whole is just extremely dry right now.These fires are consuming everything.

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  Jim Brenner Florida Division of Forestry

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  Published on: 6/19/2007    Last Visited: 6/20/2007  

  This does not mean that they are under control, though, said the Division of Forestry's Fire Management Administrator Jim Brenner.
  
  "There's still the possibility that (they) might find a way out," Brenner said.

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  Published on: 10/25/2007    Last Visited: 10/25/2007  

  Jim Brenner, the state's fire management administrator, watches the California wildfires on television and worries about Florida.
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  Brenner studied the relationship between La Niña events and fires in Florida, and found that 87 percent of the time there was a correlation between La Niña years and bigger, more intense fires.
  
  In the past two decades, when La Niña has been present, more than twice as much land has burned on average in Florida than during average non-La Niña years.
  
  "From what we've seen, it really doesn't matter if La Niña is strong or weak, it's going to impact us either way," Brenner said.
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  Jim Brenner, the state's fire management administrator, watches the California wildfires on television and worries about Florida.

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  Published on: 3/20/2008    Last Visited: 3/20/2008  

  Manatee County and some of its neighboring counties have among the worst conditions in the state, with the possible exception of a couple of counties in South Florida, said Jim Brenner, Florida Division of Forestry management administrator.
  
  Manatee was a 483 on the Keetch-Byram Drought Index as of Tuesday night.The west side of the county was a bit more moist than East Manatee, probably due to its location on the coast and more thunderstorm activity there, Brenner said.
  
  "From a forestry standpoint, we begin to get seriously concerned when (the index)'s in the 400, 500 range and very concerned when it's in the 600, 700 range," Brenner said.
  
  Ideally the number is in the 300, 200 or even 100 range, but that isn't likely this time of year, Brenner said.
  
  The index, which measures how much moisture is in the top 36 inches of soil, doesn't fluctuate as much as other factors that determine how bad a wildfire can be, he said.Other factors that go into a wildfire's level of severity are how dry the air is and atmospheric stability.
  
  An unstable atmosphere is the tendency of air to move vertically.The more unstable the atmosphere is, the more likely a fire is to leave the surface and get into the tree canopy, Brenner said.
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  Three things are necessary for a fire, Brenner said: drought; natural ignition (think lightning) or ignition on the part of a careless person; and an unstable atmosphere.
  
  Fire season in Florida is pretty much 365 days a year, he said, but the busiest time for the Division of Forestry is January through the middle of June, with a peak in April, May and the first half of June.

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  Published on: 5/6/2008    Last Visited: 6/13/2008  

  There are two fires in the marshy areas of Lake Okeechobee that are burning, one is in the grass islands and is burning about 2,000 acres and the other 1,500 are in the Myakka Cut, said Jim Brenner, fire management administrator for the Florida Division of Forestry.
  
  "These are very marshy areas so it is impossible for our people to get to it," Brenner said."We are managing any problems with the smoke and that's all we are able to do at this time."
  
  Brenner said the fire in the grass islands is threatening a small hunting camp that is on stilts, but no homes or other properties are being threatened.

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  Published on: 5/22/2007    Last Visited: 5/23/2007  

  It is not a silver bullet," said Jim Brenner, an analyst with Florida's Division of Forestry.
  
  He has used the tools on the wildfires that have charred more than 740 square miles in Florida and Georgia over the past few weeks - an area about three-quarters the size of Rhode Island.

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  Published on: 5/14/2007    Last Visited: 5/14/2007  

  Jim Brenner, state fire management administrator, said the mapping systems help foresters determine where to use limited funds to reduce the potential fuel that could feed wildfires.
  
  The map takes into consideration the area's climate, its wildfire history and fuel and balances those conditions with what's in the area, he said.
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  Brenner said.

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  People like palmettos and pine trees brushing right up against their homes, said Jim Brenner, who oversees fire management for the state Division of Forestry.
  
  "It's like putting your house in a pool of gasoline."
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  Florida continues to improve "because the state deals with more emergencies than any other state in the country," Brenner said.
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  "You take as many resources as you can to get on these fires, because if they get out of hand, you've got a big problem," Brenner said."We do the best we possibly can to make sure no one gets hurt and the losses are kept to a minimum."
  
  He points to the fires this week in Bradford and Columbia counties as an example.
  
  "We could have had all the resources in the country available yesterday, but when a fire gets to the magnitude of the one we're seeing (in Lake City) there's nothing you can do to put it out," said Brenner."Nature was showing us who's in charge."
  
  On Thursday, Brenner heard a seasoned supervisor with more than 26 years in the business say: "This looks like the end of the world."

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