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WHAT IS INCIWEB?

• An interagency website that provides “one stop shopping” for incident information to internal and external audiences.

• Primarily used for wildfires and prescribed fires, but can be used for other types of incidents.

• Sponsored by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and available for use by federal, state and local wildfire agencies at no cost.

InciWebPast, Present and Future

http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/

A LITTLE HISTORY

• InciWeb was developed in 2003 by U.S. Forest Service Information Technology staff in California.

• InciWeb generates high levels of interest and high volumes of traffic, resulting in failures.

• Management of InciWeb transferred to U.S. Forest Service Washington Office Fire and Aviation Management Information Technology staff in 2009.

• Operation, maintenance, and continued development of InciWeb contracted to IBM in 2009.

• Interagency InciWeb Steering Committee established in 2010 to guide operations, maintenance, and continued development of the site.

• Reengineered InciWeb administrative site launched in 2013.


INCIWEB GOVERNANCESponsored by the NWCG Communication, Education, and Prevention Committee

The InciWeb Team

U.S. Forest Service, Washington Office, Fire and Aviation Management, Information Technology, Project Manager

Lani Williams

U.S. Forest Service, Washington Office, Fire and Aviation Management, Business Leads

Christine Schuldheisz, Jennifer Jones

IBM Project Manager

Debra Kannapien

IBM Developer

Stu Bedoll

Interagency InciWeb Steering Committee

Michelle Fidler, National Park Service

Yvonne Jones & Robyn Broyles, Bureau of Indian Affairs

Jennifer Myslivy, Bureau of Land Management

Eric Mosley, Georgia Forestry Commission

Romeo Gervais, Boise Fire Department


WHO LOOKS AT INCIWEB?


12,000 +

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June 1, 2013 - September 30 , 2013:

HOW CAN I GET PERMISSION TO USE INCIWEB?• Designed to enable units (i.e. National Forests, BLM

Districts, National Parks, State Forestry Divisions, etc.) to maintain long term control over incident information.

• Accounts must be established by units. PIOs and IMTs must request access to a unit’s InciWeb account through a designated superuser.

• Unit accounts are established based on their NWCG identifier.

• Additional information is available on the NIFC PIO Bulletin Board at (URL) http://www.nifc.gov/PIO_bb/inciweb.html in the “InciWeb Log In Accounts and Access” document


http://www.nifc.gov/PIO_bb/inciweb.html


INCIWEB TRAINING

Live webinars will be offered three times this spring on:March 19April 16May 14

A recorded webinar, a tutorial, a manual, and other training materials are already, or soon will be, available on the NIFC PIO Bulletin Board at http://www.nifc.gov/PIO_bb/inciweb.html

Training materials are currently being developed that will enable field public affairs staff and PIOs to present InciWeb trainings (similar to S-203 and S-403)



WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH INCIWEB NEXT?

2014 InciWeb priorities

• Complete transition to new InciWeb URL by March 1, 2013 http://inciweb.nwcg.gov

• Complete performance testing to identify areas for improvement

• Revise the 209 screen to reflect adoption of NIMS 209

• Address issues associated with use of Google maps on incident homepages

• Improve video feature by adding an embedded video converter

Beyond 2014

• Development of application for tablets and mobile devices

• Reengineering of the InciWeb Public Site – the place where audiences view incident information on the internet - will soon be underway.


http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Christine Schuldheisz

U.S. Forest Service, Washington Office

Fire and Aviation Management

National Interagency Fire Center

(208) 387-5145

[email protected]


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