USDA Forest Service
Washington Office

File Code: 5100 
Date: November 1, 2002
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Subject: Survey: Fire Equipment Needs

To: All Wildland Firefighters

The Fire Equipment Working Team (FEWT) is formed as a working team of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) of the United States Departments of Agriculture and the Interior and the National Association of State Foresters.

The purpose of FEWT is to coordinate fire equipment and chemical needs, development, and implementation between Federal and State agencies. The working team will define specific areas of equipment and chemical needs and priorities which will have the greatest importance to interagency programs.

To help FEWT serve NWCG we would like to request your assistance in updating our national Fire Equipment Development Needs planning information. We are currently gathering information for our third study and are hoping to reach a broad cross section of wildland firefighters nationally.

This questionnaire is a web based form that you can access at this address: http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/7632/fedn.htm. Your responses to all questions will be kept completely confidential. This information is being gathered solely to help the FEWT of the NWCG evaluate fire equipment needs and set priorities for equipment development. Thank you for helping us gather information about fire equipment needs for all wildland firefighters.

Sincerely
/s/ Paul Solarz

Paul Solarz
Chair, Fire Equipment Working Team