State's newly formed Initial Management Team responds to four of seven new fire starts Saturday

Sunday's Incident Command Post briefing of the Arizona Initial Management Team    

photo by Mark Hart,  PIO,  AZ Game & Fish

There were seven new fire starts in Arizona Saturday, June 18 and the newly formed Arizona All Hazard Initial Management Team handled the initial attack response on four of them.
The team was mobilized to manage first or intial responses to new fires in the state.
"What we're doing is unprecedented in Arizona - we're breaking new ground," said Tom Bonomo, Sunday's incident commander during a morning briefing to six task forces. "Managing Initial Attack is our highest priority to stop fires."
Each task force is comprised of five engines, up to five firefighters, 20 personnel on Initial Attack hand crews and one water tender that holds up to 3,500 gallons.
The Southwest Region remains the highest priority for national interagency fire resources. More out of state crews arrived in Arizona over night from Idaho and Utah, joining state crews from Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Montana, North Dakota, Washington and Wyoming and federal agencies from Bureau of Land Management and Indian Affairs, Fish and Wildlife Service, and wildland firefighters.
Regardless of their agencies or regions, the teams train under one unified system, The National Wildfire Coordinating Group managed under the National Incident Management System.
The Incident Command Post operates at the Arizona State Forestry Division at 2901 W. Pinnacle Peak Road in Phoenix.