{"id":22902,"date":"2021-06-03T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/?p=22902"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:36:01","slug":"south-island-initial-attack-crew-coastal-fire-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/south-island-initial-attack-crew-coastal-fire-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"South Island Initial Attack – Coastal Fire Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Location<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cobble Hill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Current Crew Photo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

No current photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crew History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before 1993, Regional Helitack Services were provided under contract. Regional initial attack crews were based in Campbell River, Nanaimo, Duncan, Pemberton and Hope. In 1994, contracted Helitack Services were cancelled and the ministry incorporated Helitack crews into the region.  Regional Helitack bases were established in Pemberton, Qualicum Beach and Hope. All initial attack (IA) crews were rebranded to Vancouver Initial Fire Attack Crews (VIFAC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crews retained their VIFAC call signs\u2014Romeo and Quebec. By 1997, the VIFAC call signs were phased out, and the fire centre transitioned to the current nomenclature, adopting the “Coast” designation for call signs. Coast Sierra and Coast Yankee were later additions to the IA team. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Crew Supervisors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

J. Humphries: 2021 – Current<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R. Robertson, T. Bottomley: 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M. Melanson: 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. Taudin-Chabot: 2018-2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. Vaisius: 2016-2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P. Brock: 2008-2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For updates to this page please contact fireinfo@gov.bc.ca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Location Cobble Hill Established Current Crew Photo No current photo. Crew History Before 1993, Regional Helitack Services were provided under contract. Regional initial attack crews were based in Campbell River, Nanaimo, Duncan, Pemberton and Hope. In 1994, contracted Helitack Services were cancelled and the ministry incorporated Helitack crews into the region.  Regional Helitack bases were established … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8187,"featured_media":22907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[632],"class_list":["post-22902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-crew-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902","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\/8187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25672,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions\/25672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}