{"id":17741,"date":"2022-02-13T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/?p=17741"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:36:00","slug":"cifac-quesnel-cariboo-initial-fire-attack-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/cifac-quesnel-cariboo-initial-fire-attack-crews\/","title":{"rendered":"CIFAC Quesnel &#8211; Cariboo Fire Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Location <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> Quesnel <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Established <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Crew Photo <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/Current-Crew-Photo-2024-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/Current-Crew-Photo-2024-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/Current-Crew-Photo-2024-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/Current-Crew-Photo-2024-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/Current-Crew-Photo-2024-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/Current-Crew-Photo-2024-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crew History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to 2021, all Cariboo Initial Attack crews were based in Williams Lake and serviced the entire Cariboo Fire Centre. Quesnel decentralized in 2021 and started their very own initial attack (IA) program. Four initial attack crews are now based in Quesnel with a junior program, one crew supervisor and one assistant crew supervisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"17778\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2023-Crew-Photo-4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"17 people posing in two rows in front of the Quesnel welcome sign. Eight people are standing in the back row while nine people are kneeling in the front row. Everyone has their arms crossed.\" class=\"wp-image-17778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2023-Crew-Photo-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2023-Crew-Photo-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2023-Crew-Photo-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2023-Crew-Photo-4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2023-Crew-Photo-4-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"17783\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2022-Crew-Photo-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"17 people posing in two rows in front of a lake. Nine people are standing in the back row while eight people are standing in the front row.\" class=\"wp-image-17783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2022-Crew-Photo-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2022-Crew-Photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2022-Crew-Photo-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2022-Crew-Photo-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/2022-Crew-Photo-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Patches<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/CIFC-Q-White-Heli-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/CIFC-Q-White-Heli-1.png 616w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/CIFC-Q-White-Heli-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/CIFC-Q-White-Heli-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"237\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/CIFC-Q-Navy-Heli-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17803\" style=\"width:375px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"440\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/CIFC-Q-Navy-Buck.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17808\" style=\"width:350px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/CIFC-Q-Navy-Buck.png 440w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/CIFC-Q-Navy-Buck-217x300.png 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crew Supervisors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>K. Galbraith: 2021 &#8211; Current<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>For updates to this page please contact fireinfo@gov.bc.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location Quesnel Established 2021 Current Crew Photo Crew History Prior to 2021, all Cariboo Initial Attack crews were based in Williams Lake and serviced the entire Cariboo Fire Centre. Quesnel decentralized in 2021 and started their very own initial attack (IA) program. Four initial attack crews are now based in Quesnel with a junior program, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/cifac-quesnel-cariboo-initial-fire-attack-crews\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7033,"featured_media":17753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[77,632],"class_list":["post-17741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-cafc","tag-crew-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions\/25657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}