In order to achieve these goals related to COVID-19, the BCWS will be utilizing a similar application and interview process that was developed last season. The BCWS Recruiting Team remains committed to developing a safe and effective application process for all staff and prospective staff involved. The goals of the BC Wildfire Service related to COVID-19 include keeping staff members and prospective staff members informed, reducing the risk of staff and applicant exposure to COVID-19, maintaining a supportive, healthy and resilient workforce, and adapting our operations and response to risk as necessary. Through public health authority guidance, the organization has implemented appropriate measures to protect employees and prospective employees, while ensuring emergency response preparedness. The BC Wildfire Service continues to adapt to the changing conditions presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Application ProcessĪpplications to become a seasonal dispatcher with the BC Wildfire Service have opened. Dispatchers must be able to work accurately and efficiently under stressful and prolonged circumstances. Attention to detail is very important and the nature of the work requires professionalism and discretion to ensure confidentiality. The work is characterized by multiple demands, interruptions, time critical requests, and changes of pace throughout the day. Taking on other projects and tasks as needed.Multitasking, prioritizing, organizing, and completing workload while remaining flexible to changing conditions.
Working independently at times and also directly with any number of other team members as required.Implement or assist with the implementation of emergency response procedures to downed aircraft or other emergency situations as required.Maintain and record a daily log of wildfire activity.Receive fire updates and fire hazard information, record all required information, and forward it to all relevant personnel.Operating computer equipment and applications to access and track wildfires, fire weather, forecasts, indices, weather station observations, lightning location, aircraft management and advanced fire management.Transmitting, receiving, relaying and documenting communications between various individuals and groups.Monitoring and implementing all safety procedures for personnel, aircraft and equipment.Receiving and responding to initial fire reports.Dispatcher Roles and ResponsibilitiesĪ dispatcher fills a vital and highly technical role that involves:
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Dispatchers must be able to stay calm and focused in emergency situations, know how to multitask effectively, have good written and verbal communication skills, be a team player, and be willing to work extended periods with minimal time off during the summer. Ballentine (1896-1970), aviator and naval officer, deposited in the Manuscript Division by the Naval Historical Foundation.Dispatchers are employed at each of the province’s six fire centres, providing the communication link between the wildfire coordination centres to aircraft and personnel in the field and they implement pre-approved fire control decisions. The dispatch is one of five thousand items in the papers of Adm. This is a copy of the dispatch sent to the Commander in Chief Atlantic (CINCLANT) and received by the USS Ranger, an aircraft carrier that was returning to Norfolk, Virginia, from an ocean patrol when the attack occurred. The first official word of the attack that reached the rest of the United States came in a hurried dispatch from the ranking United States naval officer in Pearl Harbor, the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), sent to all major navy commands and fleet units.
The United States entered World War II on 7 December 1941 when Japanese planes launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Reproduction number: A6 (color slide) LC-MSS-78663-1 (B&W negative) Naval dispatch from the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.
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