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Wyoming fire chiefs propose regional modular crews, recommend EFSA floor and mitigation pot
Summary
Campbell and Sublette County fire wardens and the Wyoming Fire Service proposed creating four regional modular firefighting units (each with seasonal firefighters and supervisors), requested staff support positions, and recommended a policy framework including a minimum EFSA balance and a $10 million mitigation account.
Campbell County Fire Warden JR Fox and Sublette County Fire Warden Shad Cooper presented a Wyoming Fire Service recommendation to the Joint Appropriations Committee proposing four regional “modules” of firefighting capacity, additional state fire management support staff and targeted mitigation funding.
The proposal seeks to add modular capacity available statewide in surge conditions rather than prescribing a single fixed resource type. Each regional module would include seasonal wildland firefighters supervised by crew supervisors and module leaders, with regional leadership and administrative support above them. Presenters said the modular approach allows resources to be combined into larger teams or split into smaller units for engines, hand crew or other assignments as conditions require.
Why it matters: Chiefs argued that increasing state‑level surge capacity and retaining…
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