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=Wildland Fire Assessment System= The Wildland Fire Assessment System was created by the Fire Behavior unit at the Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana. They have developed a simple, point forecast interface that produces seven day fire danger forecasts from the National Digital Forecast Database. WFAS is currently based on weather observations taken across the U.S. The observations are then entered in to the Weather Information Management System (WIMS). Then NFDRS calculations are done at the National Computer Center at Kansas City (NCC-KC). National WFAS maps are made form fire danger levels using simple inverse distance square interpolation. Satellite "greenness" products are just indicators of fire potential and are only intergrated into the calulations in the experimental projects. =Canadian **Interagency** Forest Fire Centre= = The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre Inc. (CIFFC) was opened on June 2, 1982 with a mandate to provide operational forest fire management services to Member Agencies that will, by agreement, gather, analyse and disseminate fire management information to ensure a cost effective sharing of resources; and actively promote, develop, refine, standardize and provide services to Member Agencies that will improve forest fire management in Canada. = CIFFC operates as a private non-profit corporation with two levels of management which direct the operation:

(1) The Board of Trustees is made up of Assistant Deputy-Ministers responsible for forestry representing each of the Provinces, Territories and Federal Government. This group sets policy, gives direction and approves annual budgets for the Fire Centre

(2) The Council of Directors is made up of the Directors responsible for forest fire management for each of the Provinces, Territories and a representative of the Federal government. This group prepares budgets and policies and controls the operation and expenditures of the Fire Centre.

(3) Fire Centre staff operate and implements programs approved by the Council of Directors and the Board of Trustees. In addition, the Fire Centre coordinates and directs working groups assembled to address specific tasks.

=Alaska Interagency Coordination Center= The Alaska Interagency Coordination Center (AICC) is the Geographic Area Coordination Center for Alaska. AICC serves as the focal point for initial attack resource coordination, logistics support, and predictive services for all state and federal agencies involved in wildland fire management and suppression in Alaska. AICC operates on an interagency basis - cooperators include the Bureau of Land Management, State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, USDA Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Alaska Interagency Coordination Center (AICC) is the Geographic Area Coordination Center for Alaska. AICC serves as the focal point for initial attack resource coordination, logistics support, and predictive services for all state and federal agencies involved in wildland fire management and suppression in Alaska.

In addition, AICC is the focal point for coordinating and providing support for all-hazard emergency response activities for federal landholding agencies in Alaska and for providing support to Alaska BLM for non-emergency resource activities.

=** Fire Incident Disclaimer, and Location Information. (Inciweb.) **= Within the United States there are about sixteen active fires as of February 27, 2013. The Maps and information of these fires are as follows. - The Dugan Fire. This is a wild fire within the State of Montana. It Is currently active and has burned for approximately 10,675 acres of land so far. (updated February 26, 2013.)