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From taking the first phone report of a new fire to mobilizing crews, engines, smokejumpers, caterers, showers and other assets around the country in support of fire suppression, the work our dispatchers do is critical to the mission. Tracking aircraft, deploying smokejumpers, sending initial attack engines and helicopters to a new fire, tracking fire occurrence data, reassigning hand crews from one fire to another, and providing weather and fire behavior forecasts and outlooks all require top-n