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Crews
The Forest Service Wildfire Management Branch uses two types of crews:
Three-person
initial attack crews
(Firetack, Helitack,
Rapattack
or
Parattack
) respond to the first fire call; and,
20-person
unit crews
are dispatched to larger fires where significant resources may be needed to fight the blaze.
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