National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)

jbjeeps · Post by **jbjeeps** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:29 am

NIFC (formerly Boise Interagency Fire Center BIFC) is located at the Boise airport. It is the nation's headquarter's for wildland fire fighting. Training, strategy, communication, weather info, supplies, equipment and crews are all coordinated through NIFC.

The Wildland Firefighters Monument, maintained by private funds and efforts, is there too.

I joined a group of Boise area emergency incident managers last week and took a tour. Amazing place. During the fire season 500 - 750 people work there.

As always, took lots of photos. Here's a link to the blog if you're interested.

http://mynifctour.blogspot.com/

donthedickens · Post by **donthedickens** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:28 pm

Thanks for the tour. It was interesting to see. You put a lot of work in the the show for us.

RICKG · Post by **RICKG** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:14 am

Thx for the tour, Jack. I really like the chainsaw shop..
quite the promo for Stihl..

jbjeeps · Post by **jbjeeps** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:32 pm

Glad you guys enjoyed the tour.

Yeah Rick, there were sure a bunch of those Stihls there. The guys I talked to there like them. I'll stick with my old Homelites. I'm up to 10 now and always looking for the next good deal on one.

RICKG · Post by **RICKG** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:18 pm

Jack, pm'd ya some old homelite saw photos..