Aug. 13, 2014, 4:30 p.m. The Alaska Interagency Coordination Center (AICC) has received a request for a third jet load of Alaska Type 2 Emergency Firefighter (EFF) crews. They are scheduled to depart Ladd Field at Fort Wainwright on Friday,… Read More ›
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2nd jet load of Alaska Type 2 crews to Lower 48
August 11, 2014 10:47 a.m. A second jet load of five Emergency Firefighter (EFF) crews was requested for fire assignment in northern California with a scheduled departure of August 12. The crews consist of 20 firefighters each for a total… Read More ›
Alaskan single resource emergency firefighters need to be self sufficient on assignments
Single Resource Self-Sufficiency memorandum Recent mobilizations to the firefighting effort in the Lower 48 and Canada have brought forth issues regarding “self-sufficiency” for single resources, particularly emergency firefighters (EFF). The expectation of self-sufficiency is that a single resource can navigate… Read More ›
Alaska Wildland Fire Information 