NWCC SNAFU and FUBAR
Yesterday I telephoned the Northwest Area Interagency Coordination Center [503.808.2763] and asked them why they did not list ongoing fires on their website. They put me on hold and then hung up on me. Then I sent them an email [NWCC_Mail@or.blm.gov] making the same request: please do your job and list all fires.
This morning their “Morning Briefing has been altered twice already as of 10:00am. They now list for the very first time the following 11 WFU fires that have been burning for a week or more:
Bridge Creek WFU Fire
Bridge Creek Wilderness, 8 mi SW Mitchell, OR
Start date: 08/07/2008
547 WFU Fire
18 mi SW Mitchell, OR
Start date: 08/07/2008
Ochoco WFU Fire
10 mi SW Dayville, OR
Start date: 08/07/2008
Whistler WFU Fire
18 mi SW Mitchell, OR
Start date: 08/07/2008
Minam Peak WFU Fire
12 mi SW Joseph, OR
Start date: 08/07/2008
Garwood Creek WFU Fire
20 mi NE La Grande, OR
Start date: 08/09/2008
Foam Creek WFU Fire
Henry O Jackson Wilderness, 40 mi NW of Leavenworth, WA
Start date: 08/09/2008
Boulder Creek WFU Fire
28 mi NW of Leavenworth, WA
Start date: 08/06/2008
Reflection WFU Fire
37 mi NW of Leavenworth, WA
Start date: 08/09/2008
Meander WFU Fire
40 mi NW of Leavenworth, WA
Start date: 08/09/2008
Panther Creek WFU Fire
40 mi NW of Leavenworth, WA
Start date: 08/05/2008
The NWCC Daily Situation Report has not been updated since Wednesday. At least two large suppression fires, the Malott Fire west of Malott, WA and the Jack Creek Fire SW of Leavenworth, WA, have never been mentioned.
The NWCC is doing an exceedingly poor job. The Steering Committee is composed of the following individuals:
Bureau of Land Management
Carl Gossard
PO Box 3623
Portland, OR 97208-3623
Office: 503-808-6461
Cell: 503-702-9773
Fax: 503-808-6799
Email: Carl_Gossard@or.blm.gov Bureau of Indian Affairs
Cory Winnie, Chair
911 NE 11th Ave.
Portland, OR 97232-4169
Office: 503-231-6759
Fax: 503-231-6774
Email: Cory.Winnie@gmail.com US Forest Service
Ken Snell,
PO Box 3623
Portland, OR 97208-3623
Office: 503-808-2145
Cell: 503-804-9786
FAX: 503-808-6799
Email: ksnell@fs.fed.us
National Park Service
Sue Husari
1111 Jackson Street, Suite 700
Oakland, CA 94607
Office: 510-817-1370
Cell: 415-613-7752
Fax: 510-817-1487
e-mail: Sue_Husari@NPS.gov Oregon Department of Forestry
Paul Bell
2600 State Street
Salem, OR 97310
Office: 503-945-7205
Fax: 503-945-7454
Email: pbell@odf.state.or.us Washington Dept. of Natural Resources
Mark Kahley
1111 Washington St., NE.
PO Box 47037
Olympia, WA 98504-7037
Office: 360-902-1011
Cell: 253-686-0130
Fax: 360-902-1781
Email: mark.kahley@wadnr.gov
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Pam Ensley
911 NE 11th Ave.
Portland, OR 97232-4169
Office: 503-231-6174
Cell: 503-781-7978
Fax: 503-231-2364
Email: pam_ensley@fws.gov Washington Fire Service
Bob Anderson, Spokane Co FD #9
3801 E. Farwell Rd.
Mead, WA 99021
Office: 509-466-4602, ext 901
Fax: 509-466-4698
Email: banderson@scfd9.org Oregon Fire Service
Mike Burnett, Hillsboro Fire Dept.
Operations Chief
240 S. 1st Ave
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Office: 503-681-6472
Cell: 503-349-6472
Fax: 503-681-6208
Email: mikebu@ci.hillsboro.or.us
Washington State Fire Marshal’s Office
Mike Matlick, Fire Marshal
Paul Perz, Assistant State Fire Marshal
PO Box 42600
Olympia, WA 98504-2600
Office: 360-596-3902
Fax: 360-753-0398
e-mail: mike.matlick@wsp.state.wa.gov
Paul Perz@wsp.state.wa.gov Oregon State Fire Marshal
Randy Simpson, Vice Chair
4760 Portland Road NE
Salem, OR 97305
Office: 503-373-1540 ext. 216
Fax: 503-373-1825
Email: Randy.Simpson@state.or.us Executive Director
Pat Kelly
PJ Kelly Consulting LLC
4305 NE Davis St
Portland, OR 97213
Office/Cell: 503-235-9999
Email: pjkjgk@earthlink.net
Jan Mathis, notetaker
333 SW First Ave OR-934
Portland, OR 97204
Office: 503-808-6749
e-mail: Jan_Mathis@blm.gov
Please feel free to call or write these obsequious government functionaries and ask them why the NWCC is SNAFU and FUBAR and whether they give a damn. Also ask them how much of the taxpayer’s money they personally jam into their wallets every week, and what in the hell they do for it.
Ask them if there is one shred of justification for whoofoo incinerations, and whether they have any EIS or other documentary evidence indicating that the general public was consulted before they, the obsequious functionaries, cavalierly decided to burn Oregon and Washington forests.
And ask them, very gently and solicitously, if they think criminal activities by obsequious government functionaries should be of any concern to the general public, and if so, what penalties (fines and incarcerations) would be appropriate for felons in the government employ.
