USA - the wildfire dispatch system

[Peteri Szerlagi]

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=19hV6XfuqHrIoCoNvUMk-9L3LTjSNV0Q&usp=sharing

we are starting to plot all the wildfire dispatch centers on a map

trying to sort out who dispatches whom - and how the structural FDs
are intertwined

some of these federal wildfire dispatch centers have very little
connection to structural fire departments - but some of them actually
do dispatch local structural fire departments - maybe not directly -
but they sit next to the person who does dispatch the local FDs - like
Grass Valley CA and Fresno CA and San Diego CA and Susanville CA

bottom line - there are 2 independent nationwide fire dispatch systems
in the USA - structural FDs are tied together via IAFC or IAFF iirc -
the federal and state wildfire agencies are tied together via NIFC /
NICC / IROC

the structural fire department radio systems are basically set up on a
county by county basis - the federal and state wildfire agencies
basically use radio systems that are presently set up on a regional
basis using regional interagency wildfire comms centers

one other note - nearly every structural FD in the USA also has at
least 1 wildfire truck - from Eastport Maine to Westport California -
coast to coast - there are brush trucks and forest fire wagons in
probably 50% of the structural fire stations in the USA - lets see if
we can confirm that

https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/registry/summary#d - fema says they have
52,000 fire stations listed - and that data represents 91% of FDs - so
there might be actually 57,000 fire stations in the USA - so there
might be 40,000 brush trucks operated by structural FDs - thats a wild
guess based on 1 brush truck per suburban and rural fire station