Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre

Objectives:

The purpose of the Canadian Interagency
Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) is:

• to provide operational fire control services to member agencies;
• to gather, analyze, and disseminate fire management information;
• to ensure cost effective sharing of resources as well as a place, a forum; and
• to create an environment where forest protection agencies can resolve mutual problems and improve fire management policies and practices.

The CIFFC is currently working on developing national standards for fire equipment and considering the development of a National Fire Strategy patterned after the National Forest Strategy. The CIFFC operates under the auspices of a Board of Corporate Trustees (CCFM Deputy Ministers) and a Board of Directors (the provincial and territorial Directors of fire control, the Canadian Forest Service Science Advisor — fire, and the CIFFC Director).

Contact:

Dennis J. Brown, Director, CIFFC
(director@ciffc.ca)

CIFFC Information
(cifinfo@ciffc.ca)

For more information:

• Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre
• Fire Wire Daily online forest fire report service. Full reports of the day's forest fire conditions during the fire season.
• Fire News Daily public news on forest fires during the fire season; not as detailed as the Fire Wire.
• 1997 Directory of Forest Fire Management Personnel Revised annually; guide to personnel in Canadian forest fire business.
• 1997 Glossary of Forest Fire Management Terminology (4th Ed.) Defines terms commonly used in the field of forest fire management in Canada.