RAWLINS INTERAGENCY DISPATCH CENTER 2013 ANNUAL REPORT January 2, 2014 Prepared by Scott Russell, Center Manager Introduction to the Center Rawlins Interagency Dispatch Center is hosted by Bureau of Land Management’s High Desert District. The center is located in Rawlins, WY. Rawlins is a town of 9,700 people located off Interstate 80 in the middle part of the lower half of Wyoming. We provide services for seven counties, four BLM Field Offices, BLM Wyoming State Office, Wyoming State Forestry, the National Park Service, and the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Our includes one Center Manager, one Assistant Center Manager, one career-seasonal Initial Attack Dispatcher, and one career-seasonal Logistics Dispatcher. During the summer months we hire one to three seasonal dispatchers. This year we had three seasonal dispatchers. The dispatch zone covers approximately 21 million acres in the state of Wyoming. 48% of this land is owned by the Federal Government (approximately 10 million acres). A large percent of the High Desert District is checkerboard due to the Union Pacific Railroad that runs through Southern Wyoming. This type of land ownership is cause for a multiple agency response to incidents throughout the District. Center Funding Rawlins Dispatch Center is funded predominantly by the Bureau of Land Management through the High Desert District. This includes facility costs for the center as well as labor costs
RAWLINS INTERAGENCY DISPATCH CENTER 2013 ANNUAL REPORT January 2, 2014 Prepared by Scott Russell, Center Manager Introduction to the Center Rawlins Interagency Dispatch Center is hosted by Bureau of Land Management’s High Desert District. The center is located in Rawlins, WY. Rawlins is a town of 9,700 people located off Interstate 80 in the middle part of the lower half of Wyoming. We provide services for seven counties, four BLM Field Offices, BLM Wyoming State Office, Wyoming State Forestry, the National Park Service, and the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Our includes one Center Manager, one Assistant Center Manager, one career-seasonal Initial Attack Dispatcher, and one career-seasonal Logistics Dispatcher. During the summer months we hire one to three seasonal dispatchers. This year we had three seasonal dispatchers. The dispatch zone covers approximately 21 million acres in the state of Wyoming. 48% of this land is owned by the Federal Government (approximately 10 million acres). A large percent of the High Desert District is checkerboard due to the Union Pacific Railroad that runs through Southern Wyoming. This type of land ownership is cause for a multiple agency response to incidents throughout the District. Center Funding Rawlins Dispatch Center is funded predominantly by the Bureau of Land Management through the High Desert District. This includes facility costs for the center as well as labor costs
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