5 things to know about the new regional firefighting coordination center

Officials on Thursday, June 13, dedicated the new Southern Region Interagency Operations Center — Southern Ops for short — where firefighting resources are being coordinated for large wildfires and other disasters involving multiple agencies from the Sacramento area to the Mexico border.
The 12-acre site just east of March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County replaces an approximately two-acre site on Mulberry Street near downtown Riverside. It has 72,500 square feet of work space on