Resource Duty Officer

Revised in 2019, The Navajo County Wildland Resource Group (NCWRG) policy provide direction for managing the NCWRG department rotation and resources requests on extended attack wildfire incidents.

The NCWRG will assign four (4) people to serve as Resource Duty Officers (RDO). The 4 RDOs will rotate as the assigned RDO for a one-week rotation. The RDOs receive text alerts from the Arizona State Dispatch center with resource requests.

The assigned RDO shall adhere to the following NCWRG guidelines;

  1. Maintain and have available a current agency rotation list.
  2. Maintain and have available a master list showing all agency’s available apparatus
  3. Make name and contact number available to NCWRG members when assuming the assigned RDO position through text alerts.
  4. Communicate with off-going RDO to ensure the continuity of responsibility and share current information regarding resource requests for the one-week period.
  5. Act as a contact point between ASF-Flagstaff Division, COMM Center, AIDC and NCWRG members
  6. Establish and maintain a good working relationship with NCWRG member agencies including answering questions while on rotation
  7. Upon receipt of a resource request from the AIDC, rapidly contact and deploy of resources (as requested by the AIDC) following the order established on the rotation list
  8. Update rotation list immediately after each dispatch, to maintain accuracy, and ensure the list is available to NCWRG agencies.