Southern Area Interagency Management Teams

Welcome to the Southern Area Interagency Incident Management Teams web site (SAIMT). This website is designed to provide general information on current assignments, former assignments, fire photos, news releases, plus useful related incident information for the teams on assignment.

The mission of Southern Area Interagency Incident Management Teams is to safely, effectively, and efficiently manage all incidents that we are assigned by maintaining a cadre of skilled and productive team members. During each team callout we will strive to successfully complete each mission and achieve our objectives while creating a positive work environment for all personnel whether or not they are team members or single resources assigned to us.

As Incident Commanders our vision is to maintain the Southern incident management teams as diverse groups that will integrate and maintain the values of Duty, Respect and Integrity into our incident work environment. As Incident Commanders we are dedicated to encouraging team members and assigned personnel to communicate, coordinate, and cooperate with each other, supporting agencies, and all local partners and on each and every assignment.

In order to achieve our vision we encourage formal and experience-based training assignments for primary, alternate, trainee and apprentice members designed to enhance and improve the leadership and technical development of our teams. The implementation of this vision by all assigned incident personnel will ensure the safe and successful completion of team assignments while improving the performance not only of current and future team members but all assigned incident personnel.

It is the wish of all three Incident Commanders that as a team we make each and everyone of us feel that we are all valuable and welcome members of the best incident command teams in the nation.

The SAIIMT consists of two Type 1 teams (Red Team and Blue Team) and one Type 2 team (Southern Area Type 2 Team). Teams are composed of personnel from a broad spectrum of local, state and federal organizations. Team members are experts in finance, logistics, operations, information, safety, and planning and are highly qualified in Wildland firefighting and/or within their respective discipline.

National Incident Management Teams manage "All Hazard" emergency incidents of large scale natural disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes.