This project discusses the amount of repeated burn calls the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) receives every fire season regarding agricultural and prescribed burns. The purpose of this research is to help consult the ODF team in order to mitigate the problem at hand by coming up with solutions using Lean Six Sigma based processes. The method that was used throughout this report was the DMAIC processes of define, measure, analyze, improve and control. Throughout this development it was found that the ODF fire unit receives around 1.05 calls/fire, as well as 25 smoke check calls from the public regarding agricultural and prescribed burns all in the month of August alone. The ODF team then created a fishbone diagram to discover the most crucial root causes. With the two main root causes being the lack of public education on agricultural and prescribed burns, and the lack of collaboration between fire districts and farmers, the team then proceeded to create tests of change worksheets in the form of PDSA (plan, do, study, act). On the PDSA worksheets, the team created solutions to the root causes and proposed that if the burn information from the media and from the farmers themselves was timely and effective, as well as forming a Klamath Basin Agricultural Working Group, then the amount of calls the unit receives concerning agricultural and prescribed burns would decrease.
