radio usage for southern california wildfires

radio usage for southern california wildfires

engines are dispatched on the dispatch channel - they respond to the
scene on perhaps a command channel or a wildfire response channel or
maybe even the dispatch channel - arriving on scene they will switch
to a short range tactical channel or a repeaterized tactical channel
or a trunked tactical channel (?verdugo?)

aircraft are dispatched via landline or fixed comm path to the airport
or heliport - aircraft might start on the local aviation channel and
also use a flight following channel - or they might use an airtanker
base channel - or National (168.65) - or a command channel - or a tac
channel - or a dispatch channel - aircraft at scene might use a notam
channel or a air tac channel or a victor channel or an a/g channel -
on return to base they might use National and a airbase channel

hand crews and dozers use the same channels as engines - but onscene
they might jave their own tac nets

USFS has simpler radio channels - they get dispatched and respond on
Forest Net - onscene they use a short range tac channel - or they
might use a LG command channel in some areas (Los Angeles County for
example) - usfs air resources also have federal a/g channels and
federal air tac channels

Cal Fire has - dispatch channels + command channels (for response and
for command) - they also have tac channels and air to ground channels
and air tactics channels

they is just rough info - this is the basic scheme

overall - there are 30K fd or 39k fire jurisdictions in the usa - and
maybe 50% have unique fire radio channel loads - so its kinda hard to
summarize in 5 paragraphs