Fire Food: New Policy of "Cheapest Caterer First" Starts to Rear It's Ugly Head.

Was is worth it?

A new dispatch policy recently came out on ordering a caterer for a wildfire. The new policy, which I discussed on this podcast, changed the primary criteria to “cheapest first,” with the second criteria being “closest resource.” Before this policy change, the closest resource was the primary criteria when deciding which caterer would go.

I argued on the…