[GRANT BEEBE] Think about your typical fire that we have in the West now, almost always spreads across jurisdictional boundaries, it'll move from the Forest Service to the Bureau of Land Management, to Fish and Wildlife Service to the state, to the county, to some private landowners land.

So, really, the NIFC concept is that, since fire doesn't respect borders, the fire response organization should also kind of not respect borders.

So so we're the national, the national folks who send it to the local folks who are making the on-the-ground decisions.

But the local folks will be calling us saying, “we need help.” [SHERI ASCHERFELD] This is the Great Basin Cache.

It's one of 16 caches throughout the United States.

They support the geographic areas around the country.

But this place has anything from hoses to big, huge 2000 gallon dipping tanks for helicopters, to tents.

And, so really, it has everything that a fire community might need for anywhere from eight to ten thousand people.

{INSPIRING ORCHESTRA} [CLAY STEPHENS] It takes everybody it takes all these different agencies and folks and groups working together.

And the folks that are just delivering supplies, right?

The bottled water and the different things that have to come in to make all this work, the food and the just the, group of people that come out to support these events is it's an incredible undertaking.

We're all helping each other out, right?

That's how I think this is the most successful.

When we don't, have the need here, we try to send as much out as we can.

And last year we had over 50 engine assignments to help other places outside of here.

And trust that if we have that need, we can say, hey, we need two engines and a dozer, and then that system works for us as well.

{INSPIRING ORCHESTRA} [GRANT] It's baffling to people, honestly.

They think, how in the world could this really function?

Like how, you know, people, I think, are, skeptical of governments.

Right?

I think that's a natural impulse.

This is one of those cases where government actually functions incredibly well.

We had to because fire really is a charging force.

So you have to respond to it now.

You can't wait.

You know, even though I've got a logo on my shirt, it's kind of meaningless here.

It's like we are all partners and we all share resources and we offer our input into decision making.

I think part of the reason things succeed here is that we don't have a lot of time to to dither.

Right?

We got to make a decision.

We got to get stuff where it needs to go.

We got to respond to fires.

And so people cooperate amazingly well.

They drop their defenses.

They drop their allegiances to their home organization.

They work as a team regardless of who's paying their salary.

Idaho should be incredibly proud of this place.