National Interagency Fire Center

There is the National Interagency Coordination Center, a command hub where teams, crews, aircraft, engines, equipment and other resources are mobilized quickly from coast to coast and occasionally to Canada or Australia. There is the radio cache, the largest civilian radio cache in the world, capable of providing communication support to 32,000 firefighters and more than 50 major incidents at one time.

The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), located in Boise, Idaho, is the nation’s support center for wildland firefighting. Eight different agencies and organizations are part of NIFC. Decisions are made using the interagency cooperation concept because NIFC has no single director or manager.