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Coordination and cooperation in wildland fire management.

Current National Statistics
5 Total
New Large Fires
14 Incidents
Large Fires Being Suppressed
492,295 Acres
Burned in Large Fires
Last Updated:

* Source for statistics is the Incident Management Situation Report published by the National Interagency Coordination Center

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Applications are open for this #FireJob at the National Interagency Coordination Center! The NICC is the focal point for coordinating the mobilization of resources to wildland fires and other incidents throughout the United ... States. Here’s your chance to join the team! #NotYourOrdinaryJob
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A local school district near our campus did their part this #NationalGratitudeMonth! Across the whole district, classes took the time to compile boxes of cards, such as these ones, to #ThankAFirefighter. Shoutout to our friends ... at West Ada School District for helping us spread the gratitude this month!
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Introduction to the three tier dispatch system
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NPS Careers in Wildland Fire
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Bureau of Land Management Fire was a proud exhibitor at the Saint Alphonsus 2024 Ski and Mountain Trauma Conference, an annual conference for first responders that combines expert lectures with opportunities for hands-on ... simulation sessions at the Sun Valley Resort.
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#NationalFireNews: November 8, 2024. Currently, 14 large wildfires have burned 492,295 acres in 13 states. About 4,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents, including 1 complex incident management ... team, 69 crews, 496 engines, and 26 helicopters. Wildland firefighters and support personnel continue to assist with hurricane response and recovery in North Carolina. On the tail of an extremely busy and challenging #FireYear2024, many fire personnel on public lands are shifting their focus to the critically important work of fuels treatments, which are a planned aspect of wildland fire and landscape management. Wildland fire management means using different kinds of strategies for managing wildfires. Sometimes it means firefighters ignite prescribed fires to reduce the underbrush and rejuvenate the landscape. Other times it means managing fires started naturally for beneficial effects. When wildland fires are threatening communities, historic places, and natural resources, fire management means putting the fire out or full suppression of the fire. Wildfire management requires land managers to use the right tool under the right conditions, a determination which takes knowledge, experience, and cooperation between stakeholders. 🔥More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn 📸Photo from suppression repair on the #ElkFire. Photo by Shay Rogge.
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#NationalFireNews: November 7, 2024. Currently, 14 large wildfires have burned 486,348 acres in 10 states. About 1,250 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents, including 1 complex incident management ... teams, 21 crews, 100 engines, and 6 helicopters. Wildland firefighters and support personnel continue to assist with hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina. When you decide to live in the wildland urban interface, or WUI, get to know your neighbors and not just the people living around you. Wildfire has also lived in your neighborhood. Act today to protect your neighborhood by preventing unwanted fires and reducing the losses from catastrophic wildfire. These are things everyone can do. Introduce your community to valuable programs like Firewise and Fire Adaptive Communities to bring partners together to reduce the risks before fires start. Don’t wait for the flames to come your way, get Firewise today! Learn more here: https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/wildfire/firewise-usa 🔥 More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn 📸Photo 1, Resource Advisor on the #ShoeFire in California. Photo 2, snow on the #BlueFrontFire in New Mexico. Photos from InciWeb.
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Welcome to the Nation's Logistical Support Center

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The nation’s federal wildland fire community is a large and complex organization across the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. These agencies manage wildland fire on nearly 700 million acres of federal public land, or one-fifth of the total land area in the United States. 

NIFC is home to the national fire management programs of each federal fire agency, along with partners including the National Association of State Foresters, the U.S. Fire Administration, and the National Weather Service. A Department of Defense liaison was added as a permanent partner at NIFC in 2008. Working together, these partners provide leadership, policy oversight and coordination to manage the nation’s wildland fire programs.

In recent years, the role of the agencies at NIFC has grown to include all types of fire management, including hazardous fuels treatments, integrated fire and land-use planning, and more. Fire management under this larger umbrella is designed to achieve not only suppression goals, but to accomplish a broad spectrum of natural resource objectives, and do so in an efficient, cost-effective manner.

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