Adam Warren, the lead aircraft dispatcher at the Grangeville Interagency Dispatch Center, arrives at work at 7 a.m. Warren and his staff go over reports on what aircraft and pieces of aviation equipment are available for the day and what personnel are on the job and then start reviewing orders from firefighting teams around the region to see if any of them have requested assistance from the night before.
“We feel like we’re kind of like playing chess at times,” he said. “We’re moving the pieces around the board — what’s the best piece of equipment for this particular mission, this particular fire or whatever they’re asking for.”
Warren has worked at his job since 2015, which was “a pretty hectic fire season. I didn’t think that anything could really trump that. I kind of feel like this season may. I feel like this is probably one of the busiest seasons that I’ve ever seen here.”
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