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Fire Evacuation Team

The Fire Evacuation Communication Team was established at the request of the United States Forest Service (USFS) District Office. In the event that a fire should threaten the Canyon, the team provides support to the Forest Service's communications team by recording the destination of residents, visitors, or campers in Madera Canyon's Recreation Area. The USFS Fire Incident Commander would call the FOMC team leader and designate the command post, expected to be the Continental School parking lot. The FOMC team would send a team of two members, with cell phones in hand, to the command post. The team would then record where evacuees were headed, along with a contact phone number; these evacuee records would then be compared against a roster of the people living or camping in the Canyon. Thereafter, the American Red Cross would handle referrals on inquiries about the location of evacuees.

 

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