Emergency Medical Committee

Mission Statement

The Emergency Medical Committee (EMC) provides national leadership in incident emergency medical services (EMS) for wildland fire personnel. The EMC establishes NWCG standards that support rapid delivery of high quality emergency medical services on national interagency wildland fire incidents.

⇒ Primary Objectives:

• Establish wildland fire EMS operations, staffing, and equipment standards.
• Establish standards that enable system-wide accountability, including quality assurance, medical direction and oversight, provider credentialing, and records maintenance.
• Facilitate national mobility and availability of wildland fire EMS personnel.
• Establish standardized EMS data collection practices for wildland fire incidents.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders among the federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners in support of wildland fire EMS standardization and improvement efforts.
• Establish and regularly update wildland fire incident position standards related MEDL. This includes an incident position description and position requirements for training, experience, physical fitness, and position currency.
• Establish and regularly update training and performance support materials such as job aids, training courses, and position task books for MEDL.

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