State Forestry was in the process of receiving a fire call, the local Prevention unit started a response and arrived on scene with in minutes before dispatch had the information from the caller. during the size up from the Prevention unit and the statment no other resources need the fire was knocked down, the local VFD AST Chief called over the Forestry IA channel inquiring why they had not been notified yet and DEMANDED the Forestry Dispatcher call 911 to notified the VFD. when the AST. Chief arrived on scene and avoided the Forestry IC, the Forestry IC tried to walk over to the AST Chief and he would turn and walk away. The AST Chief then told the Forestry type 6 engine to move and get out of the way, basically telling them to leave. This happened in 2019 when he ordered Forestry to leave a wildfire. Talking with my IC and staff they pulled back from the fire. The VFD with no communication with Forestry started doing their won thing on the wildfire, this fire was 1/2 acre in grass and dead other then a few smoldering spots. if this was a running wildfire there would be safety concerns with no command structure in place and no unified como. with the emergency over the VFDs still had a full code response to the incident. |