FOLLOWING THE GUIDANCE AND APPROVAL FROM NWCG & PNWCG Click here for more info.

In a letter dated Mar 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service adopted a Fire Management Board’s (FMB) memo as operational guidance for the 2020 Fire Year. This email is intended to provide implementation guidance to FAM Contract Operations and AQM Fire Contracting Officers working under the I-BPA program. The FMB memo provides […]

CONCERNS, PERSPECTIVES, AND IDEAS FROM THE FIELD This document will discuss the concerns, perspectives, and ideas garnered from the field on how to approach fire season 2020. While the concern is real for the upcoming fire season, COVID-19 has exposed blind spots, pinch points, and weaknesses in the wildland fire system and within the Forest […]

Review and utilize the Center for Disease Control’s “How to Protect Yourself” guidelines. Click here for more info.

Several States have directed that individuals shelter at their place of residence except that they may leave to provide or receive certain essential services or engage in certain essential services and work for essential government services. Click here for more info.

The purpose of this memo is to provide the interagency wildland fire community with guidance on adjustments to wildland fire preparedness activities for the 2020 Fire Year. These activities include: Medical Clearance, Work Capacity Test (WCT), and RT-130, Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher (WFSTAR). The Fire Management Board (FMB) has carefully analyzed the risk […]

As first responders and fire leaders, we need to be strategic in the way we mitigate COVID-19 virus risk by taking practical and effective measures to avoid exposure to the virus in order to keep our workforce healthy and productive. Click here for more info.

Adjustments to wildland fire preparedness activities for the 2020 fire year in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic_Signed