TFS maintains a joint coordination center with the US Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to coordinate the mobilization, demobilization and tracking of state and federal wildfire resources and personnel. The center receives and maintains personnel qualifications and training records for Texas-based firefighters and resources in the national dispatch system. Additional, TFS personnel maintain the records system and ordering for supply and equipment caches located across the state.
Since 1998, TFS staff working at TICC have mobilized and demobilized the following state and federal resources to support Texas fire suppression and all-hazard operations.
- 40,644 personnel
- 788 dozers
- 943 fire enginesĀ
- 639 aircraft
- 842 handcrews
Visit the Texas Interagency Coordination Center site.