Susanville Interagency Fire Center (SIFC) is located in the heart of Susanville and is an Emergency Operations Command Center composed of four cooperating agencies: U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.  CAL FIRE staff includes one battalion chief and three fire captains. 

SIFC dispatches initial attack, extended attack and major/multiple incidents within the combined areas of Lassen Volcanic National Park, Norcal BLM, Lassen National Forest, CAL FIRE Lassen-Modoc-Plumas Unit, and Firenet Lassen Fire protection responsibility area.  Click the following links to view statistics on dispatches from SIFC:

2007 CAL FIRE Responses by Battalion
SIFC Annual Response Totals 1984 to 2007
2007 Statistics by Fire District

Expanded Dispatch Office

When the emergency activity workload at SIFC increases to a certain level, the processing of resource orders is moved from the dispatch floor to an Expanded Dispatch Room.

SIFC also operates using a Lightning Coordination Area structure to organize fire fighting resources and meet the demands of lightning fire situations that develop and change rapidly.