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Coordination and cooperation in wildland fire management.

Current National Statistics
0 Total
New Large Fires
5 Incidents
Large Fires Being Suppressed
45,718 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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The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center has released their 2024 year-end infographic ➡ https://lessons.wildfire.gov/annual-incident-review-summaries A full comprehensive report will be released in February, the infographic is ... released earlier to provide training topics based on the previous year as soon as possible. Take a look at the lessons learned from #FireYear2024 including having a soft stretcher, wearing a double elbow shirt, and instructing and following the basics. 📸Photo 1 by Samantha Storms, BLM. Medical emergency training simulation.
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🚨Major developments are underway on the NIFC campus! 🚨We are excited to welcome the Boise Air Center to our 55-acre interagency campus. The new Boise Air Center will offer more than double the space of the previous site, ... significantly improving capacity for crew and aircraft operations in the Treasure Valley and beyond. As a collaborative effort with the Bureau of Land Management - Idaho Boise District, they will move their air center facility from the aging leased hangar on the eastern end of the Boise Airport campus this new site. This project marks a significant step in improving operational efficiency and enhancing the local and national wildfire suppression mission. 📍Read the full BoiseDev story here: https://boisedev.com/news/2024/12/16/blm-nifc-idaho/ 📸Photo 1 by Andrea Good, BLM. Photo 2 rendering of new Boise Air Center facility location.
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#NationalFireNews: The U.S. Forest Service has activated eight U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) C-130 aircraft equipped with MAFFS to assist with battling wildfires in Southern California. Two aircraft from the California Air ... National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing, are operating out of Channel Islands Air National Guard Station in support of fire suppression efforts. Six additional aircraft will be arriving over the next 24 hours: Two each, from the Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd Airlift Wing, Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, the Nevada Air National Guard’s 152nd Airlift Wing and the Wyoming Air National Guard 153rd Airlift Wing. The eight aircraft are joining the Forest Service and other municipal, county, state and federal agencies fighting wildfires in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The aircraft will be working out of Channel Islands Air National Guard Station in Port Hueneme, California. ✈️Read the full release here: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/news-releases/military-aircraft-equipped-modular-airborne-firefighting-systems
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Flying your drone near a wildfire poses a major risk to wildland firefighting efforts. Please keep drones AWAY from wildfires. If you fly, we can't. We are thankful there were no reported injuries in the case with this scooper. ... #NoDronesInFireZones #IfYouFlyWeCant
#NationalFireNews: January 10, 2025. Significant wildland fire activity is now occurring in multiple geographic areas, requiring national support to accomplish incident management objectives. The National Interagency ... Coordination Center at NIFC is working to mobilize available resource from all geographic areas to support current wildfires. The potential for new significant wildland fires to start in the next several days is also above normal for this time of the year. Due to these factors, the national #PreparednessLevel increased to PL 2 on Wednesday (01/08). Wildland firefighters are working to contain large fires in Southern California. Please visit the #EatonFire and #HurstFire on InciWeb and the #PalisadesFire and #KennethFire on the CAL FIRE website for current information. If you live in an area that has been evacuated, please follow the instructions from local authorities. They will provide the latest recommendations based on the threat to your community and appropriate safety measures. If you are concerned about the potential for evacuation or other disaster impacts, https://www.ready.gov/ can help you get plans in place. 🔥More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn ➡ CALFIRE: https://www.fire.ca.gov/ ➡ Eaton Fire: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/caanf-eaton-fire ➡ Hurst Fire: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/caanf-hurst-fire 📸Photo 1&2 of the Palisades Fire, photos courtesy of CalFire Flickr. Photo 3 of the Eaton Fire, courtesy of Angeles National Forest. Photo 4 of the Horton Fire in Arizona, photo from InciWeb.
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NIFC Virtual Tour National Interagency Coordination Center
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On #NationalLawEnforcementAppreciationDay we give a huge thank you to our partners in law enforcement. From assisting with evacuations during wildfires, ensuring public safety when communities are threatened by wildfire, working ... alongside wildland fire personnel during fire investigations, or ensuring safety at incident command posts, we couldn't do it without your support. #ItTakesAllOfUs 📸Photo by Cory Manseau, BLM. 2020 Bon Accord Fire near Dillon, MT.
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Introduction to the three tier dispatch system
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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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