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Echo Lake / "Street of Dreams" Fire - March 2008
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Echo Lake/Street of Dreams Deployment
NWIMT was deployed March 3, 2008 to support the overhaul and investigation of a set of fires in several residential structures in what was termed "the Street of Dreams" outside of Woodinville, WA. Eleven team members were deployed, and supported the unified command structure that had already been established. Unified Incident Command consisted of representatives from ATF, FBI, Snohomish County Fire Marshal's Office, and Snohomish County Fire District #7.
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September 2007 - NWIMT assists in management of Broughton Wildland Fire, located in the vicinity of White Salmon, WA.
NWIMT subsequently took command of the Co-Ply Mill fire (shown above) near Stevenson, WA
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August/September 2007 - Black Rock Wildfire Deployment
Nine members of NWIMT were deployed 8 pm Friday 8/31/07 to the Black Rock wildfire, approximately 3500 acres, that threatened the small town of Marlin, WA. We filled the following roles: Deputy IC, IC, Plans, Logistics, PIO, Division Supervisor, and Operations roles. The fire was contained by Sunday around noon, and we facilitated demobilization. We also deployed our communications trailer, which was used to distribute radios, create the IAP's, and print large maps.
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August 2007 - Deployment to Wantoma Fire
Our first official team deployment is completed. On Thursday, August 16 the team and trailer were mobilized to the Wantoma (Wautoma) Fire near Richland. We were requested along with Clark County to augment the Type 3 team members from the local area to fight this rapidly expanding and dynamic fire. Eight members of the team left for deployment at approximately 10:30pm and arrived at the ICP between 2:30 and 3am. We worked through the next night before sleeping, and went through the transition to the Type 2 team, with the expectation that the fire would transition to NWIMT on Sunday for mop up operations.
The fire burned 70,000 acres and prior to transition to the Type 2 team, most of the fire was contained. It was extremely valuable experience for all of us and our trailer is rapidly becoming a precious commodity.
All team members contributed to the successful outcome and should feel really good about our team deployment capabilities in the region.
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