State and Federal Agencies Form Coordination Center for Managing Central Oregon
Wildfires
For
Release: July 20, 2014
Contact:
David Morman, Information Officer, 541-233-3215
The Central
Oregon District of the Oregon Department of Forestry, the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs, and the Central Oregon Fire Management Service have opened a
Multi-Agency Coordination Center in Prineville in response to the numerous
wildfires currently burning in Central Oregon.
The Coordination Center will focus its
attention on the following combination of wildfires:
1. The Bridge 99 Complex (Bridge 99 and Bear Butte 2 Fires)
located on the Deschutes National Forest north of Sisters;
2. The Shaniko Fire, Logging Unit Fire, and the portion of
the Bear Butte 2 Fire located on the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation;
3. The Waterman Complex (Bailey Butte, Toney Butte, and
Junction Spring Fires) located on private land and the Ochoco National Forest
west and north of Mitchell;
4. The Pine Creek Complex (Pine Creek, Jack Knife, Black
Rock Fires and Donnybrook Fires) located on Prineville
District of the Bureau of Land Management and private land south of
Fossil and southeast of Grass Valley;
5.
The Ochoco Complex
(Oscar, Lava, Antelope, Broadway, and Fox Fires) located on the Ochoco National
Forest and the Prineville District of the Bureau of Land Management near
Big Summit Prairie southeast of Prineville;
6.
The Sunflower Fire
located on Umatilla National Forest and private land northwest on Monument; and
The principal functions and
responsibilities of the Multi-Agency Coordination Center (will include the
following:
- Ensuring that each agency involved in wildfire
incident management activities is providing appropriate situational
awareness and resource status information;
- Establishing priorities between wildfire incidents
in concert with Incident Commanders;
- Acquiring and allocating resources required by
incident management personnel in concert with the priorities established
by each Incident Commander;
- Anticipating and identifying future resource
requirements;
- Coordinating and resolving policy issues arising
from the wildfires; and
- Providing strategic coordination as required.
Operational management of
on-the-ground fire suppression actions will remain under the control of the
seven Incident Commanders.
The Central Oregon
District of the Oregon Department of Forestry spans ten Oregon counties from
Hood River to Burns and La Pine to Long Creek. The district has fire
protection responsibility for 2.2 million acres of non-federal forest and range
lands.
Central Oregon Fire Management Service
area includes federal lands in the the Deschutes National Forest, the Ochoco
National Forest, the Crooked River National Grassland, and the Prineville
District of the Bureau of Land Management.
For information regarding Multi-Agency
Coordination activities, contact Information Officer, David Morman, at 541-233-3215.
For information on the status of any
of the wildfires being overseen by the Multi-agency Coordination Center, the
public is encouraged to continue to use:
Or, the information phone
numbers established for the complexes:
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