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About Us - Fire Center

[Photograph] Fire Retardent plans by Fire Center In the Southwest, an important line of defense against a major wildfire, a natural disaster, or emergency incident is the Prescott Fire Center and Henry Y. H. Kim Aviation Facility. The Center is located on the outskirts of Prescott, Arizona, at Ernest A. Love Field, Prescott's airport. Here, a highly trained, professional staff coordinates, supports, and assists in the management of interagency, multiagency, and international services deployed to major emergencies such as earthquakes, floods, and wildland fires.

To carry out its role in the national emergency response system, this Center combines an Aviation Program, a Zone Incident Coordination and Communication Center (Central West Zone), a National Emergency Incident Supply Center (called the Fire Cache), an Interagency Hotshot Crew, a Helitack Crew, an Air Tanker Base, and a Fire and Emergency Incident Training Program. It is also home to Prescott National Forest's fire operations staff and engines. In addition, the forest lookouts are supervised from this location.

With its aviation, communications and coordination capabilities, the Center can dispatch aircraft, supplies, equipment, and crews to assist with emergency incidents in the United States and around the world.

AVIATION
Supports tactical and logistical aircraft missions.

COORDINATION CENTER
The Coordination Center is a model of cooperative management among agencies dispatching resources across geographic and agency boundaries to specific incidents.

TRAINING CENTER
[Photograph] Employees in meeting National, state and local agencies send their personnel here for comprehensive emergency incident management and support training. The curricula focus on emergency incident tactics and logistics and aviation operations. Classes cover everything from air tanker loading to helicopter rappelling. National experts often teach at the Center.

FIRE CACHE
[Photograph] Emergency items in the cache One of eleven national emergency incident supply centers, the Fire Cache stores enough emergency supplies and equipment to handle the needs of over 2,500 personnel. Firefighting and other emergency materials, such as shovels, firefighting clothing and food, are maintained in a 20,000 square foot area. Cache employees assemble and distribute supplies as needed. As materials are returned from the field, they are checked, cleaned, repaired, recycled or replaced, in preparation for the next incident.

FIRE OPERATIONS
Hot Shot Crew, Helitack Crew, Engines and Lookouts.

USDA Forest Service - Prescott National Forest
Last Modified: Tuesday, 17 October 2006 at 13:12:06 EDT