The program for the Seventh Annual Wildland Fire Safety Summit, scheduled for Nov. 18-20 in Toronto, is being finalized. Hosted this year by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the summit provides a rare opportunity to share international interagency information on today's safety issues.

This year's theme is protection on the fireline. Topics submitted so far include:

• Fire Behavior/Safety in Mountain Pine Beetle Killed Stands in British Columbia by David Marek and Mike Dittaro, British Columbia Forest Service.
• The 10 Essential Factors in Firefighting by Patrick Withen, University of Virginia and smokejumper for the USDA Forest Service.
• A Low-Cost Weather/Situation Monitor for Wildland Firefighter Safety by Robert Kremens, Jason Faulring and Andrew Gallagher, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.
• The Safe and Economic Structural Health Management of Air Tanker and Lead Aircraft Involved in Firebombing Operations by Stephen R. Hall, Richard Perry and Joseph F. Braun, Celeris Aerospace Canada.
• Coordination of Safety Activities on Multiple-Employer Work Sites by Steve Bachop and Jim Price, British Columbia Forest Service.
• The Use of Leading Indicators to Measure the Performance of the Occupational Health and Safety System by Steve Oakley, Health and Safety Consultant, Electrical and Utilities Safety Association.
• Redesigned Fire Shelter Now Available for Wildland Firefighters by Leslie Anderson, USDA Forest Service.
• Hazard Tree and Snag Safety by Paul Chamberlin, Northern Rockies Interagency Fire Operations Safety Specialist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Knowledge Management in the Wildland Fire Community by David Christenson, Assistant Manager, Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center.
• Wildland Fire Operations Safety — A Comprehensive Program to Change a Culture by Edward D. Hollenshead, USDA Forest Service, National Interagency Fire Center.
• Air-Attack Safety by Ernie Ptok, Air Attack Leader, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aviation and Forest Fire Management Branch.
• Loggers and Logging Equipment to Fight Wildland Fires: Issues and Opportunities in Oregon by Dr. John Garland and Christopher Bielecki.
• High Resolution Surface Wind Simulations in Complex Terrain and their Impact on FARSITE Simulations by Bret W. Butler, Ph.D., Fire Sciences Laboratory, Fire Behavior Project, Missoula, Mont.
• Predicting Spatially Explicit Burn Probability of a Landscape Under Extreme Weather Conditions by Wenbin Cui.

A complete agenda will posted online at www.safetysummit.org in October. Registration is limited to 320 participants and is being taken online until space is filled.

For more information, including paper submissions, visit www.safety summit.org. Information for participants, vendors and sponsors is available in an online brochure in Adobe Acrobat format at www.safetysummit.org/pdf/brochure.pdf.