The Southern California Coordination Center in Riverside County is a joint operation between Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service. The team helps dispatch…
"It's not only a quicker response, but it's enabled us to meet our goal, which is to keep 95% of fires at 10 acres or less," the southern region chief staff of operations saidThursday marked the first official day of summer, but it's also a time of the year when we move into peak wildfire season.
"From Sacramento to the Mexican border, north-south, from the ocean to the Arizona, Nevada border," Ricci said.The center is divided into multiple categories, sending resources from all over the state to current or emerging incidents. At the aircraft floor, it's a mix of old and new technology. Computers, a board of a map and markers are the tools of the trade.
During a wildfire, immediate response is pertinent and relies on organization. Ricci showed and described to NBC 7 on Thursday how the dozers, strike team and other resources with wheels are kept track of. The system for keeping track of these resources previously relied on index cards, but recently, they switched to a computerized system."It’s really easy for us to get that snapshot of the kind, the type, the agency supporting this," Ricci said.
"This has assisted us in getting resources to the fire long before we even receive a 911 call, and there have been times where this has detected a legitimate fire, we’ve started a response, those responding units have been able to get there, mitigate and a 911 call has never generated," Ricci said.
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