Fire Chat Friday Session 25: 2025 National Wildland Fire Agency Administrator Workshop

Bureau of Land Management / National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) · April 2, 2025

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Opening remarks and charge to agency administrators

Announcement

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Senior leadership (identified later in the call as John Ravey) opened the webinar, thanked staff for service, emphasized the importance of supporting employee participation in fire assignments, and asked agency administrators to give personnel latitude to accept IMT assignments during the fire season.

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BLM/NIFC webinar reviewing wildfire-season readiness: interagency incident management teams (IMTs) staffing and pay updates, deployment of WFDSS NextGen as the authoritative decision system, prescribed-fire policy and declaration thresholds, fire-safety and behavioral-health resources, and the BLM UAS/aviation transition including new TFR allowances.

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