Northern Sacramento Valley Fire

The primary purpose of this feed is to serve initial attack fire coverage across the interior northern Sacramento Valley, providing situational awareness of the big picture of fire activity across the area. Centered in Red Bluff, day-to-day coverage will include CalFire and USFS out of Tehama, Shasta, Trinity, Glenn, Colusa and Plumas counties.

As moderate incidents pop up the feed may focus on that incident over the day-to-day traffic. If the incident goes to a major incident, it will be dedicated solely to that incident if no other feed is appropriately covering it.

Day-to-day coverage:

• TGU (priority 1)
• Red Bluff City Fire
• SHU/cmd (priority 2-3)
• MNF Fire/Admin
• LNF Fire/Admin
• SHF Forest
• National Flight Following
• Air Guard
• Air Tactics IA for TGU, SHU, MNF, SHF, LNF
• Air/Ground IA for TGU, SHU, MNF, SHF, LNF
• CalFire Tacs covering IA for TGU, SHU
• NIFC/USFS R5 ground tacs
• Air AM Victor channels commonly used
• Redding and Chico Air Attack Base
• USFS Smokejumpers 

Moderate incidents: - scanner will shift priorities and scan these channels more often than day-to-day coverage

• Command Net (priority 1)
• Air/Ground (priority 2)
• Dispatch Net for the impacted area (priority 3)
• Incident Air Tactics
• Day-to-Day channels

Major incidents: - scanner will typically only scan the incident

• Appropriate freqs from the Incident Comm Plan, with Command Net and Air/Ground on priorities.