9/27/08 - Fire Camp tour. Here is an aerial photo I took of the Incident Command Post (ICP) or Fire Camp at the Hood River County Fairgrounds. It becomes a pretty self sufficient city suppling almost everything one needs.




One of the first things you notice when you get into camp are all the tents. It doesn't seem like there are 500 tents in camp but the food trailer makes meals for 500 people.

Here is the heartbeat of camp, all the section trailers. All the operations and admin take place in these trailers. I work the the closest trailer on the right with the Fire Behavior Analyst and the GIS team.

Here is where the crew briefings take place. I have to give briefings to the crew at 6 am and 5pm. I also give briefings to remote Spike camps via radio at 7 am and to the aviation crew at 7:30 am at the helispot a few miles away. There are also planning meetings where I brief the sections chiefs at Noon and 7 pm.

Here is the dining area. The trailer in the back is where breakfast and dinner is prepared and we eat in the tents.

This building is part of the fairgrounds but it is used for the communications section and medical section for the fire camp.

Here is supply where just about anything from fire gear and clothes to office supplies can be picked up. The trailer to the right is where bag lunches are handed out.

There are even portable showers in a trailer. You can see the potable water truck filling up the huge bladders for the showers. I haven't actually showered in this trailer yet. There are permanent restroom facilities with showers as part of the fairgrounds.