Reporting wildfires?

Living out here in the West where fires are a fact of life during late
summer we report a lot of fires. Call the nearest Tower or if you are out
of radio range call AFSS. We have a centralized dispatch center that we
call with fire reports. Give them the fires location as a radial and
distance from a VOR. Don't worry if you're off by a few miles as that isn't
important. Fires can be seen from quite a distance, even the really small
ones, so just getting the Forest Service aircraft in the right vicinity is
more than adequate.



"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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What do you do when you're flying over remote wilderness and see a fire?
If I'm talking to ATC and mention it are they going to report it? Should
I talk to fligh****ch or the nearest FSS? What sort of things would be
useful to note about a fire, besides its location?

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Ben Jackson

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