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The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) was formed in the United States as a result of the aftermath of a major wildfire season in 1970, including the Laguna Fire. The 1970 fire season underscored the need for a national set of training and equipment standards which would be standardized across the different agencies.
Training manuals for these courses are published by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. There are also more advanced and specialized courses not covered in the basic wildland fire training. The work capacity test ("pack test") is also usually given during the course. Passing S-130/190 and the pack test are both required to fight wildfires.
In the United States, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group operates a nationwide, web-based database system for managing wildland firefighting resources.The system, called National Interagency Resource Ordering and Status System or Resource Ordering and Status System, (or simply ROSS), improves efficiency of borrowing and sending home of fire equipment in a large, campaign-type fire.
The scene had all the trappings of a wildfire — water hoses, fire engines, people in flame-resistant outfits. ... the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group urged "extreme caution" in ...
Islands close to a control line may flare up later and start spot fires across the control line, according to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. A backburn is a prescribed burning technique ...
May 5—Two years after the most destructive fire in New Mexico history, the U.S. Forest Service has changed the planning process for prescribed fires and created new training for fighting fires ...
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group definition, which was developed and approved by the Wildland Urban Interface Mitigation Committee, is "A human community consisting of informed and prepared citizens collaboratively planning and taking action to safely co-exist with wildland fire." [2]
The National Park Service implemented a parkwide fire ban in an effort to reduce the risk of starting a wildfire amid weather that is ... according to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. ...