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 The South Central Arizona Border Wildfire Group provides the State of Arizona, federal land management and local agencies or other requesting authority a pool of approximately 60 wildland-qualified personnel and staffing along with a  mix of Type 1 ,  Type 3 ,  Type 6 Engines, Tactical or Support Water Tenders, medical & fire UTVs along with Incident Medical Teams .  If called upon, ambulances can respond to an incident.  In most cases, the equipment is staffed with a Paramedic (Advanced Life Support/EMTP) and  EMT qualified personnel.  Many members of the group can also respond to all-hazard incidents utilizing their wildland fire skills to help manage an incident.

For extended incident assignments, the group has set up a rotation list according to qualifications and equipment.  Generally, Arizona Interagency Dispatch Center, AIDC, contacts our Wildland Resource Duty Officer(s) at 520-904-3646,  520-275-8381 or 520-444-4604 via a text  for an assignment.   (See Duty Officer Contact List for additional numbers)

All agencies follow the guidelines of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (http://www.nwcg.gov) (NWCG) and the National Incident Management System or referred to as the Incident Command System (ICS).  Responding equipment meet the minimum standards as per Arizona State Forestry required wildland equipment guide.  Personnel are all red carded and those that are Engine Boss and above have been sanctioned by the Arizona State Red Card Committee and meet PMS 310-1, Incident Qualifications Guideline.  Some of the ICS positions held by personnel include: Task Force Leader, Strike Team Leader, Single Resource Boss, Structure Protection Specialist, Division/Group Supervisor, Incident Commander Type 4 or 3, Operations Section Chief 2 and other functions to name of few.