Colorado Sends Fire Engines to Support California Wildfires

Colorado Sends Fire Engines to Support California Wildfires

Lakewood, Colorado – Colorado sent 17 fire engines (Type 3 and 6) to support California wildfire operations. The request was made Tuesday, December 5, 2017, through the National Interagency Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS).

The fire engines will support CalFire and are traveling from Colorado to Chino, California for staging and assignments. DFPC expects a second group of fire engines may also deploy to California later this week. 

The request is coordinated in partnership between the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center and the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control.

The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control are working with CalFire to meet any additional needs.

The agencies left for California on December 6 for a 14-day deployment are from across the state, including:

The National Interagency Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) operates in an estimated 400 interagency dispatch and coordination offices throughout the Nation. The ROSS tracks all tactical, logistical, service and support resources mobilized by the incident dispatch community. 

For more information, visit www.colorado.gov/dfpc

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