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The Wyoming Hotshots have been based in the Bighorn National Forest since their inception in 1967. This Type 1 crew consists of 20 firefighters and responds to incidents nation-wide.

The Wildland Fire Module (WFM) program facilitates the use of fire, and other management techniques, involving planned and unplanned wildland fire events. The module specializes in providing an innovative, highly mobile, logistically independent, and versatile fire response.  WFMs are highly skilled and versatile fire crews, which provide technical and ecological based expertise in the areas of prescribed fire and wildfire response such as long-term planning, ignitions, holding, suppression, hazard fuels reduction, and fire effects monitoring; with an emphasis in fire fulfilling its natural or historic role to meet resource and management objectives.  The module is also equipped with unmanned Aerial Systems (drones) and is designated as a regional deployment platform. Since 2008, this 10-person firefighting crew has been responding to local, regional, and nation-wide incidents.

There are three Type 6 engines on the Bighorn National Forest, two on the Tongue Ranger District and one on the Medicine Wheel Ranger District.  These 5-person firefighting crews have been responding to local, regional, and nation-wide incidents since 2001.

This four-person firefighting crew has been accomplishing fuels reduction work in the Bighorn National Forest and responding to local, regional, and nation-wide incidents since 2016.