Management
This page provides the public and the wildland fire community with information on various fire management program activities.
Aviation Management
The Regional Aviation program maintains the highest of standards in safety, training, certification, operating procedures, equipment and program management in support of the Forest Service mission.
Critical Incident Stress Management
Critical Incident Stress Management is a comprehensive, integrated, systematic, and multi-tactic crisis intervention approach to manage stress after traumatic events.
Fire Safety and Risk Management
The Forest Service risk management program exists to help managers and employees identify and communicate value and objectives, identify risks, evaluate how to mitigate them to the lowest practicable level, and then decide if the value or attempting to achieve the objectives is worth accepting the residual risks.
Fuels Projects and Prescribed Fire
Information about Wildfire Risk Reduction and Prescribed Fires on National Forest System lands.
Project Activity Level (PAL)
PAL is a decision support tool designed to help fire and timber resource managers establish the level of industrial precaution for the following day.
National Fire Danger Rating System
A system that allows fire managers to estimate today's or tomorrow's fire danger for a given area.
Wildland Fire Decision Support Systems (WFDSS)
A system of accepted models for risk-informed decision making in support of wildland fires.
Region 5 Fire and Aviation Management Strategic Plan
Planning document for the Pacific Southwest Region 5, Fire and Aviation Management to operate as Wildland Fire and Aviation Management Leaders, while safely sustaining, protecting and restoring ecosystems.
Incident Command System ICS
The Incident Command System (ICS) is a management system designed to enable effective and efficient domestic incident management by integrating a combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications operating within a common organizational structure.
Incident Management Teams
An incident management team (IMT) is dispatched or mobilized during complex emergency incidents to provide a command-and-control infrastructure in order to manage the operational, logistical, informational, planning, fiscal, community, political, and safety issues associated with complex incidents.
ONCC
The Northern California Geographic Area Coordination Center (ONCC) is the focal point for coordinating the mobilization of resources for wildland fire and other incidents throughout the Geographic Area. Located in Redding, CA, the Center also provides Intelligence and Predictive Services related-products designed to be use by the internal wildland fire community for purposes of wildland fire and incident management decision-making.
OSCC
The Southern California Geographic Area Coordination Center (OSCC) is the focal point for coordinating the mobilization of resources for wildland fire and other incidents throughout the Geographic Area. Located in Riverside, CA, the Center also provides Intelligence and Predictive Services related-products designed to be used by the internal wildland fire community for purposes of wildland fire and incident management decision-making.