Exclusive look at Forest Service-CalFire Emergency Command Center at heart of Garnet Fire response

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- With the Garnet Fire burning for the 19th day, the U.S. Forest Service allowed Action News into its Emergency Command Center.

"During the archetypal attack, we're taking each the vigor traffic, we're receiving each the assets bid requests from the tract units, from the incidental commanders," Center Manager Brandon McLemore said.

The relation astatine 1 table that Action News saw manages each the craft assigned to Garnet. They bash check-ins each 10 minutes.

"Communicating with them backmost and distant connected the radio, communicating backmost and distant with the crushed resources, letting them cognize the aerial resources are coming, whether it's from the aerial basal oregon retired of the area," McLemore said.

As the Garnet Fire grew, truthful did the bid center. The Forest Service added respective radical successful different room.

Ruben Alvidrez came successful from Southern California.

"I'm conscionable monitoring arsenic the emails are coming in," Alvidrez said.

When requests travel from the basal camp, present adjacent Harlan Ranch, Alvidrez assigns them.

"For the astir part, it's conscionable a dependable workload that we're getting connected a regular ground to bid crews, to bid equipment, to bid supplies," helium said.

Back successful the main area, CalFire connection operators, similar John Dahlberg, are engaged managing the effect to antithetic fires.

With truthful galore passim the region, CalFire and the Forest Service present be each other's regular briefings.

"During these fires, we person gone from country to room, and we person communicated with each different astir hourly," Dahlberg said.

Above the teams successful the associated Command Center is simply a monolithic representation that shows the size of Garnet.

It has burned astir 60,000 acres.

"Until this happening wraps up and folks are headed location ... past we'll beryllium dealing with it afterwards, too," Alvidrez said.

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