The Southwest Coordination
Center (SWCC) is the interagency focal
point for coordinating the mobilization of resources
between the twelve Federal and State Dispatch
Centers of
the Southwest
Area and, when necessary, the National
Coordination Center in
Boise, ID, for assignment throughout the nation. Located
in Albuquerque, NM, the Center mobilizes resources for
wildland fire, wildland fire use, prescribed fire, and
other all-risk incidents. In addition, the Center provides
Predictive Services and Intelligence related-products
in support of incident management decision-making for
wildland fire managers and on-the-ground wildland firefighters.
There are five primary components to the SWCC website.
The Incident Information component of the website is designed to provide general information on large wildland fires, fire restrictions and closures, and other relevant information to the general public and news media.
The Predictive Services component is designed to be the decision support section of the site providing operational products and links pertaining to (1) Intelligence (i.e. situation, mapping, and firefighting resources), (2) Fire Weather (i.e. current weather conditions, models, and forecasts), (3) Fuels / Fire Danger (i.e. NFDRS, live fuel moisture, WFAS, NDVI), and (4) Outlooks (i.e. daily fire behavior forecasts, and weekly and monthly fire weather / fire danger outlooks) .
The Logistics / Dispatch component is designed to provide specific operational information pertaining to aviation, crews, equipment and supplies, and overhead (to include Incident Management Teams).
The Administrative component of the SWCC website
is designed to assist the wildland fire manager, providing various tools
in incident business, safety, software, and training in order to make fire
management programs work. Under this heading also includes a link to the
Southwest Coordinating Group (SWCG) website and committees.
The Related Links component is for locating other incident related websites within the Southwest Area and nationally.
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