Eastern Idaho Interagency Fire Center (ID)

The Eastern Idaho Interagency Fire Center (EIIFC), located in Idaho Falls, was established in the spring of 1995 after a five year planning effort. Participating agencies include the Forest Service's Caribou-Targhee National Forest, and the Bureau of Land Management's Idaho Falls District.

Current EIIFC Fire Information: [1]
Current Fire Danger Levels: [2]
EIIFC Website: [3]
National Interagency Fire Center Website [4]

EIIFC is responsible for fire coordination of over 7.5 million acres of public lands, encompassing 21 counties within four states, including Southeastern Idaho, Southern Montana, Western Wyoming and Northern Utah.

Cooperating and contract agencies include:

Idaho State Agencies: (Departments of Lands, Fish & Game, and Corrections)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Shoshone Bannock Tribes
Bureau of Reclamation
National Park Service (Yellowstone National Park, Craters of the Moon National *Monument and Grand Teton National Park)
USDA Sheep Experiment Station
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

EIIFC also has 38 Cooperative Agreements with City and Rural fire departments. EIIFC supports 9 ranger stations and 8 BLM guard stations.

Activities include incident and fire preparedness, suppression of wildfires, prescribed fire, aviation tracking and flight following, administrative and natural disaster coordination and support.

On average, EIIFC fights 132 fires a year. Resources include engines, an air attack base, air attack, helicopters, miscellaneous qualified overhead support personnel, hand crews (20 members each), and camp crews (10 members each).

EIIFC STATION/CREW LOCATIONS AND EQUIPMENT

SALMON WORK STATION
- BLM: One Heavy Engine and Two Light Engine
DUBOIS WORK STATION
- BLM: One Heavy Engine; One Light Engine
- FOREST SERVICE: One Light Engine
ATOMIC CITY WORK STATION
- BLM: One Heavy Tatra Engine
ISLAND PARK WORK STATION
- Forest Service: Two Light Engines and One 20 Person Initial Attack Hand Crew (Centennials)
ASHTON WORK STATION
- Forest Service: Two Light Engines
DRIGGS WORK STATION
- Forest Service: One Light Engine
SWAN VALLEY WORK STATION
- Forest Service: One Light Engine and One Helicopter plus crew
IDAHO FALLS WORK STATION
- BLM: Dispatch Center; Fire Cache; Two Heavy Engines; Two Light Engines; One Dozer; One Water Tender; One 20 Person Initial Attack Hand Crew
FORT HALL WORK STATION
- BLM: One Heavy Engine; Two 20 Person Hand Crews
POCATELLO WORK STATION 5
- BLM: Two Heavy Engines(3451, 3453); One Light Engine; One Dozer; One Water Tender; One helicopter; One 20 person hotshot crew; Air Tanker Base
- Forest Service: Two Light Engines
CHUBBUCK WORK STATION
- BLM: One Heavy Engine(3452)
SODA SPRINGS WORK STATION 7
- BLM: One Heavy Engine(3672); One Light Engine(3471)
- Forest Service: One Light Engine
MALAD WORK STATION 8
- BLM: Three Heavy Engines(3481, 3482, 3483)
- Forest Service: One Light Engine
MONTPELIER WORK STATION
- Forest Service: Two Light Engines
BLACKFOOT WORK STATION
- BLM: One Heavy Engine
AMERICAN FALLS WORK STATION 6
- BLM: One Heavy Engine(3461); One Dozer(3263)
GRAYS LAKE WORK STATION
- BLM

East Idaho BLM Maps

BLM and Forest Service Repeaters

BLM Channels

Idaho Falls District

Rx Freq	Tx Freq	Tx Tone	Description
169.7750	163.1500	114.8	Big Southern Butte Repeater
169.7750	163.1500	123.0	Tylor Repeater
169.7750	163.1500	107.2	Garns Repeater
169.7750	163.1500	141.3	Kelly Mountain Repeater
169.7750	163.1500	100.0	Kinport Repeater
169.7750	163.1500	151.4	Malad Repeater
169.7750	163.1500	167.9	Portable Repeater
169.7750	163.1500	162.2	Rockland Repeater
169.7750	163.1500	131.8	Sedgewick Repeater

Forest Service Channels

Caribou-Targhee National Forests

Eastern Idaho Interagency Fire Center (ID)

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Contents

EIIFC STATION/CREW LOCATIONS AND EQUIPMENT

East Idaho BLM Maps

BLM and Forest Service Repeaters

BLM Channels

Forest Service Channels

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