Nevada Fire Chiefs Articles

On behalf of the Nevada Fire Chiefs Association, we are writing to express urgent concern over the ongoing delay in onboarding and availability of Air Attack platforms within the Great Basin. The failure to timely implement replacement contracts and aircraft following the grounding of the Aero Commander fleet, coupled with a blanket safety rollout, has placed our rural communities and firefighters at increased risk during the heart of the western fire season. As of July 1, more than 50% of the G...

The Nevada Fire Chiefs Association (NFCA), in partnership with the Western Fire Chiefs Association (WFCA), proudly supports the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Mitigation Alignment Project, an initiative uniting fire service leaders, insurance experts, and stakeholders statewide. As wildfire threats intensify in Nevada’s WUI areas, this collaborative effort seeks to identify flexible, community-informed strategies rooted in evidence-based practices like the Insurance Institute for Building and Ho...

You’re likely familiar with Sourcewell when you think about quick and compliant ways to make purchases for fire apparatus and other equipment. Did you know that Sourcewell also has contracts to help you build employee benefit plans? As you know, great service is delivered by great people. Sourcewell has contract options to help you attract...

The Nevada Fire Chiefs Association supports the position and comments of the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) regarding the 4.9 GHz spectrum. This spectrum should remain exclusively for public safety use. The association is against sharing this spectrum with commercial users and decentralizing its management to individual states. They advocate for placing the 4.9 GHz spectrum under the stewardship of the FirstNet Authority. Centralized management is especially crucial in states like Nevada...

Since the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the events surrounding 9/11/2001, most of the nation’s public safety community have been striving, with federal support, to further interoperability with our equipment, within our responses, in how we operate, in how we communicate and more....