Richard Wisehart, a spokesman with the NIFC, the Boise, Idaho support center for fighting wildland fires, said the number of experienced supervisors available is just about exhausted. The first concern is for the safety of the firefighter, Wisehart said.
Experienced supervisors keep firefighters out of harms way.
If the wildfire problem increases in scope, the solution according to Wisehart is the management and prioritizing of each fire. These are in total wilderness areas with no population or structures. If we had 10 new fires tomorrow and one threatened a populated area, that's where our people would go, he said. Each crew normally numbers 20. But we are just about at the end of our rope to put any new crews in the field.