The Alabama Forestry Commission has one dispatch center in Montgomery these days. Conservation Officers are now on AFC with their more routine communications like going in and out of service. Most traffic otherwise for them is through local/county radio systems.
In the morning, AFC units check in with a few instructions for Dispatch.
Readiness Level - on a scale of 1 to 3(?) depending on fire danger. One = Low, Two = Moderate, Three = High.
First Call - Unit to be contacted first for any calls in the county(ies) reporting in.
Those two are off the top of my head. There are others, I'm sure.
Depending on how long you have been away from listening to Forestry, the largest change to my knowledge is abolishing Districts in favor of much larger Areas. Communications have gone from one statewide channel and three or four local repeaters pairs rotated throughout the state to many more repeaters and frequencies in use statewide. Each area has at least two assigned tact channels which, I believe, are used for fire ground communications.
The RR database contains a fairly good listing of the frequencies although some of the listed areas have been adjusted.
Oh, and aircraft that once made extensive use of the former statewide frequency (which was 159.420 MHZ, now a tact) communicate with Dispatch on the local repeater. I assume aircraft also talk direct to ground units on tactical frequencies.
(AFC was my first state agency, 1979-1984.)
