Emergency Medical Committee

• 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.
• Contribute to the standardization of information technology systems (such as FireNet, IROC, etc.) to collect and distribute data, processes, forms, and other operational elements.

Other Policy/Guidance Documents

• Infectious Diseases Guidelines For Wildland Fire Incident Management Teams
• Agency Administrator's Guide to Critical Incident Management, PMS 926
• Interagency Medical Qualifications Standards
• National EMS Scope of Practice Model

• Rhabdomyolysis Flyer
• Wildland Fire Lessons Learned - Rhabdo or Rhabdomyolysis Awareness and Education
• Exertional Heat Illness Flyer
• Heat Illness Flyer
• Heat Illness Basics for Wildland Firefighters
• Heat Stress LLC Rapid Lesson Sharing
• Heat Injury HIP Pocket Guide

The NWCG EMC annually recognizes and honors individuals and/or organizations who have demonstrated outstanding work, actions, or programs in emergency medical service for our nation’s wildland firefighters.  

The five Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Award categories include:  

• Outstanding Wildfire EMS Individual of the Year 
• Outstanding Wildfire EMS Squad/Crew/Team of the Year 
• Outstanding Wildfire EMS Distinguished Service of the Year 
• Excellence in Wildfire Emergency Medical Service/Rescue 
• Janette Peterson Lifetime Achievement in Wildfire Emergency Medical Service 

Read about the 2020 winners

Previous winners:

• 2019 Winners
• 2018 Awards
• 2017 Awards
• 2015 Awards
• 2014 Awards
• 2013 Awards

2021 Emergency Medical Service Award Nominations

Featured Links

• REPLICA - Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate CompAct website
• Model Interstate Compact for EMS Personnel Licensure for State Adoption. This project will initiate a 20-month process to develop a model interstate compact for states’ legislative use to solve the problem associated with day-to-day emergency deployment of EMS personnel across state boundaries. For more information go to the National Association of State EMS Official's website. 2/2013
• Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG), PMS 461
• NASEMSO State Processes for Legal Recognition of EMT's for Wildand Fires

Additional Resources:

• Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations (Red Book)
• NWCG Standards for Interagency Incident BUsiness Management, PMS 902
• NIOSH-Traumatic Incident Stress for Emergency Workers
• Veteran Affairs - National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response

Critical Incident Stress Management(CISM):

• National Wildland Fire and Aviation Critical Incident Stress Management

Line-of-Duty Death (LODD):

• National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
• Wildland Firefighter Foundation