Description
Plan, lead, and evaluate a wildland fire management program, overseeing prevention, preparedness, fuels, and suppression operations. Enforce fire regulations, assess hazards, coordinate incident response, manage personnel, equipment, and budgets, monitor weather and fire danger, and advance public education and interagency cooperation.
- • Coordinate emergency communications among dispatch, incident command, crews, and partners.
- • Direct and supervise fire operations and resources under the Incident Command System.
- • Oversee fire size-up, location mapping, behavior assessments, and timely reporting to dispatch or base.
- • Enforce fire and forest-use regulations; issue corrective actions and permits.
- • Authorize initial and extended attack tactics and ensure safe operational practices.
- • Maintain program records, incident documentation, and compliance reports.
- • Audit and inventory engines, PPE, tools, and supplies to ensure readiness.
- • Manage maintenance, repair, and procurement of firefighting equipment.
- • Implement fire restrictions and area closures during critical fire danger periods.
- • Plan and prioritize prevention patrols, hazard surveys, and risk mitigation.
- • Monitor and disseminate fire weather, fuel moisture, and danger indices to staff.
- • Oversee compliance inspections of recreation sites and outreach to visitors.
- • Assess forest and industrial operations for fire hazards; plan fuels treatments and prescribed burns.
- • Develop and deliver wildland fire training, qualifications, and readiness drills.
- • Lead public education, stakeholder engagement, and community wildfire preparedness programs.
- • Develop and manage annual operating plans, budgets, staffing, and resource allocation.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
