Forest Fire Station
Howard Forest covers a 50-mile (80 km) initial attack response area that contains over 2,800,000 acres (11,000 km2) of state land, and over 730,000 acres (3,000 km2) of US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands. Two fire engines respond from Howard Forest station during peak fire season, each staffed with a crew of three (one officer, two firefighters.) Assigned to the facility are three fire captains, three fire apparatus engineers and ten seasonal firefighters.
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