The Group provides a formalized system to agree upon standards of training, equipment, aircraft, suppression priorities, and other operational areas. Its goal is to provide more effective execution of each agency’s fire management program. “To establish an operational group designed to coordinate programs of the participating agencies so as to avoid wasteful duplication and to provide a means of constructively working together. The memorandum defined the function and purpose of NWCG as follows:
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) was established in 1976 through a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior. Support the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy goals: to restore and maintain resilient landscapes create fire adapted communities and respond to wildfires safely and effectively.Įstablish information technology (IT) capability requirements for wildland fire.Įnsure that all NWCG activities contribute to safe, effective, and coordinated national interagency wildland fire operations. training courses, job aids) that enable implementation of NWCG standards. Recognize that the decision to adopt standards is made independently by the NWCG members and communicated through their respective directives systems.Įstablish wildland fire position standards, qualifications requirements, and performance support capabilities (e.g. Primary objectives include:Įstablish national interagency wildland fire operations standards. The National Wildfire Coordinating Group provides national leadership to enable interoperable wildland fire operations among federal, state, local, Tribal, and territorial partners.
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