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Post-wildfire restoration in the 2018 Camp Fire area on the Plumas National Forest

A pile of ashes is left after a prescribed burn.
Editor’s note: Across the West, land managers are working together to accomplish what they cannot do alone — to restore massive areas affected by past wildfire while also strategically planning how to best suppress the next.Forest Service firefighter James Lico, and Julia Sidman, a forestry program manager for the Butte County Resource Conservation District talk about the work that's needed to…
#Campfire, #PrescribedFire, #ControlledBurn, #PileBurning, #Wildfire, #WildfireRiskReduction, #WildfireCrisis, #Fire, #PlumasNationalForest

National Incident Management Organization - Team 4

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div .embed-medium img{display: block; margin: auto;} NIMO is composed of four Type 1 Incident Management Teams. Each team consists of seven members, who are assigned full-time to Command and General Staff positions including: Incident Commander; Safety Officer; Public Information Officer; Planning Section Chief; Operations Section Chief; Logistics Section Chief; and Finance Section Chief.…
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National Incident Management Organization - Team 3

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div .embed-medium img{display: block; margin: auto;} NIMO is composed of four Type 1 Incident Management Teams. Each team consists of seven members, who are assigned full-time to Command and General Staff positions including: Incident Commander; Safety Officer; Public Information Officer; Planning Section Chief; Operations Section Chief; Logistics Section Chief; and Finance Section Chief.…
#Fire, #NationalIncidentManagementOrganization, #NationalIncidentManagementSystem, #FireAndAviationManagement

National Incident Management Organization - Team 2

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div .embed-medium img{display: block; margin: auto;} NIMO is composed of four Type 1 Incident Management Teams. Each team consists of seven members, who are assigned full-time to Command and General Staff positions including: Incident Commander; Safety Officer; Public Information Officer; Planning Section Chief; Operations Section Chief; Logistics Section Chief; and Finance Section Chief.…
#Fire, #NationalIncidentManagementOrganization, #NationalIncidentManagementSystem, #FireAndAviationManagement

National Incident Management Organization - Team 1

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div .embed-medium img{display: block; margin: auto;} NIMO is composed of four Type 1 Incident Management Teams. Each team consists of seven members, who are assigned full-time to Command and General Staff positions including: Incident Commander; Safety Officer; Public Information Officer; Planning Section Chief; Operations Section Chief; Logistics Section Chief; and Finance Section Chief.…
#Fire, #NationalIncidentManagementOrganization, #NationalIncidentManagementSystem, #FireAndAviationManagement

National Incident Management Organization - Programs

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NIMO team members work on incident response approximately 10% of the time, and when mobilized, it is usually under special circumstances such as:Early or late season fires when many resources are not available.Long-term fires, (often at the end of the season). NIMO personnel are available for mobilization full time, year-round, making them an ideal resource for long duration events.Merging with a…
#Fire, #NationalIncidentManagementOrganization, #NationalIncidentManagementSystem, #FireAndAviationManagement, #WildfireRiskReduction