{"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":"2026-04-24T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:55:33","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":"Quesnel Initial Attack &#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\/2022\/02\/2025-QIA-crew-Photo-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/2025-QIA-crew-Photo-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/2025-QIA-crew-Photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/2025-QIA-crew-Photo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/2025-QIA-crew-Photo-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/2025-QIA-crew-Photo-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<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-17753\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2025\/02\/Current-Crew-Photo-2024-1024x683.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" 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\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\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<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/Quesnel_CIFAC_Back_of_Shirt-_page-0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28922\" style=\"width:350px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/Quesnel_CIFAC_Back_of_Shirt-_page-0001.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/Quesnel_CIFAC_Back_of_Shirt-_page-0001-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/Quesnel_CIFAC_Back_of_Shirt-_page-0001-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/Quesnel_CIFAC_Back_of_Shirt-_page-0001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/Quesnel_CIFAC_Back_of_Shirt-_page-0001-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2022\/02\/Quesnel_CIFAC_Back_of_Shirt-_page-0001-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crew Supervisors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Will Combaluzier 2025 &#8211; Present<br>K. Galbraith: 2021 &#8211; 2025<\/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":28937,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions\/28937"}],"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}]}}