Fire Operations & Crews

Our Operations and Crews

Making up one of the most complex fire management programs in the National Park Service, these parks staff various types of modules and crews.

Wildland Fire Engines

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  Grant Grove

  Engine 51

  Engine 51 on a Prescribed Burn

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  Sequoia

  Engine 72

  Engine 72 on a Wildfire Assignment

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  Kings Canyon

  Patrol 41

  Patrol 41 Monitors a Fire in the Parks

Fire Crews

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  Arrowhead

  Interagency Hotshot Crew

  Hotshots Respond to a Fire

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  parks-wide

  Fire Effects

  A Scientist Records a Smoke Observation

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  Kaweah

  Wildland Fire Module

  Firefighters Work on Complex Fire Projects

Parks-wide Resources

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  Ash Mountain

  Helicopter 552

  Helicopter 552 Landing in the Parks

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  Parks-wide

  Structure Fire Engines

  Structure Firefighters Work Together Parks-wide

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  Ash Mountain

  Fire Dispatch

  A firefighter Calls in a Resource Request.

Support Offices

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  Fire Ecology

  Fire Scientists Study the Effects of Fire

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  Fire Information

  Fire Information Officers Provide Timely Updates to the Public

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  Fire Mapping & GIS

  Fire Maps Help Inform Firefighters and the Public