The National Interagency Coordination Center’s Situation Report for Saturday includes 250 “active” wildfires in the United States, and 46 of those are large, uncontained fires. The number of hand crews assigned to fires, 680 now, continues to grow. There are 32,255 personnel committed to battling the fires.
At last count there were 46 incident management teams and 3 area command teams assigned or activated. The Situation Report only shows 2 area command teams assigned; one in northeast Washington and another in northwest California. But including one team on “NCF Fire Support/Preposition”, three have been activated. Earlier this year the number of area command teams was reduced from 4 to 3, which was a controversial decision.
