It has been a few weeks since I wrote about NWS Incident Meteorologists (IMETs) deployments. These specially trained NWS Meteorologists are deployed to wildfires for up to two weeks, sometimes there is a trainee assigned to the fire working with an experienced IMET. Some of the larger wildfires may have two or more IMETs. They have weather forecasting equipment and provide good service aimed at keeping the wildland firefighters and the ground and in the air safe.
I am listing the IMET deployments since July 15th, I obtained deployment information from the NWS IMET Operations Twitter account with a link to that Twitter account for each deployment. Where available, I include a link on Inciweb for each wildfire. Acreage burned, if available is from Inciweb as of the July 22nd when I am writing this post,
July 15th
- NWS Bay Area IMET deployed to the Washburn Fire (4,856 acres burned) located near Wawona, California
- NWS Alaska IMET deployed to the Bean Complex (193,766 acres burned) 100 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska
- NWS NOC IMET trainee deployed to the Moose Fire (23,620 acres burned) located near Salmon, Idaho.
- NWS Melbourne IMET deployed to the Calf Canyon Fire (341,735 acres burned) located near Las Vegas, Nevada
- NWS Jackson MS IMET deployed to 2022 Initial Attack to support the Texas Forest Service at College Station, Texas.
- NWS Southern IMET deployed to the Chalk Mountain Fire (6,705 acres burned) located near Linden, Texas.
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