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Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS) with TriLeg tower at Ruby Lake Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Elko County, Nevada. The Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) system is a network of automated weather stations run by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and monitored by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), mainly to observe potential wildfire ...
If a wildland fire grows to the point where local personnel and equipment are insufficient, the responsible agency contacts the Geographic Area Coordination Center (GACC) for help. The GACC will dispatch a Type 2 Incident Management Team (IMT) and locate and dispatch additional firefighters and support personnel throughout the geographic area ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. NIFC may refer to: National Interagency Fire Center ...
Logo of the United States National Interagency Fire Center. Source: Extracted from PDF version of the November 2005 NIFC newsletter (direct PDF URL ). Author: U.S. Government: Permission (Reusing this file) Public domain from a copyright standpoint, but other restrictions apply.
The 1970 fire season underscored the need for a national set of training and equipment standards which would be standardized across the different agencies. NWCG included representatives from the United States Forest Service , the Bureau of Land Management , the National Park Service , the Bureau of Indian Affairs , the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
A Wildland fire module (WFM), formerly fire use module (FUM), is a 7–10 person team of firefighting personnel dedicated to planning, monitoring and starting fires. They may be deployed anywhere in the United States for resource benefits (fire use), prescribed fire and hazard fuel reduction projects.
Wildland fire activity is increasing and large fires are occurring in one or more geographic areas. Minimal mobilization of resources from other geographic areas is occurring. There is moderate commitment of national resources with the potential to mobilize additional resources from other geographic areas.
The need for a wildland fire lessons learned center became apparent with the TriData Wildland Firefighter Safety Awareness Study, initiated after 14 wildland firefighters died in Colorado's 1994 South Canyon Fire. TriData recommended that one center be set up for all of the nation's wild land firefighters.