NIFC: 2013 National Interagency Mobilization Guide

Friday, March 15, 2013

NIFC: 2013 National Interagency Mobilization Guide

The National Interagency Mobilization Guide identifies standard procedures which guide the operations of multi-agency logistical support activity throughout the coordination system.

This Guide is intended to facilitate interagency dispatch coordination, ensuring the timeliest and cost effective incident support services available are provided.

It is designed to accommodate amendments as needed and will be retained as current material until amended.

Local Mobilization Guides should be used to supplement the National Interagency Mobilization Guide.

Geographic Areas will provide NICC two (2) copies of their Mobilization Guide and will

provide amendments as issued.

Total Mobility

Positioning and utilizing resources to meet existing and anticipated incident, preparedness,

severity, and wildland and prescribed fire needs regardless of geographic location or agency

affiliation.

Priorities

When competition for wildland fire resources occurs among Geographic Areas, the National

Multi-Agency Coordination Group (NMAC) at NIFC will establish national priorities and

confirm drawdown levels.

NOTE: This guide is organized into sections for your printing convenience. Each file is formatted in pdf and word.

1 NWCG Memo pdf
2 Table of Contents pdf
3 Chapters
10 Objectives, Policy, and Scope of Operation pdf
20 Administrative Procedures pdf
30 Organization pdf
40 Cooperation pdf
50 Directory pdf
60 Overhead/Crews pdf
70 Equipment/Supplies pdf
80 Aircraft pdf
Appendix pdf
4 Index pdf
National Mobilization Guide (full version) pdf

Mission Statement

The principal mission of the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) is the cost effective and timely coordination of land management agency successful emergency response for wildland fire.

As a partner in the National Response Framework (NRF) and as interagency cooperators, we will also meet the requirements of all-hazard incidents as directed by the NRF or Presidential and Secretarial direction. This is accomplished through planning, situation monitoring, and expediting resource orders between the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Areas, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) States, National Association of State Foresters (NASF), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Regions, Forest Service (FS) Regions, National Park Service (NPS) Regions, National Weather Service (NWS) Regions, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Regions through the United States Fire Administration (USFA) and other cooperating agencies.

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How fires get their names

Every year in California thousands of wildfires start throughout the state. In most cases, the dispatch center sending the initial resources to a wildland fire will designate a name for the fire, but the first on scene engine or fire official can also name the incident. Fires are usually named for the area in which they start – a geographical location, local landmark, street, lake, mountain, peak, etc. Quickly naming the fire provides responding fire resources with an additional locater, and allows fire officials to track and prioritize incidents by name. For example during the Southern California Fire Siege of 2003, the largest wildland fire in California history, the Cedar Fire in San Diego County, was named after the Cedar Creek Falls area where it started. The destructive Old Fire, which burned during the same time period in San Bernardino County, was named after the road along which it started - Old Waterman Canyon Road.

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Friday, March 15, 2013