The Alaska Type 1 Incident Management Team, two Alaska hotshot crews and more than a dozen Alaska Smokejumpers have been mobilized to the Lower 48 to assist with wildland fire management in the western United States.
The Alaska IMT, which consists of approximately 70 highly trained wildland firefighting personnel from multiple Alaska state and federal agencies, flew out on a chartered jet from the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) on Tuesday. The Team will be prepositioned in Boise, Idaho, home to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), to await an assignment.
Members of the Pioneer Peak Interagency Hotshot Crew board a jet from the National Interagency Coordination Center at Ted Stevens International Airport on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 for the flight to Boise, Idaho. Kale Casey/Alaska Incident Management Team