NWS Jackson, KY Incident Meteorologists Support Western Wildfires

NWS Jackson, KY Incident Meteorologists (IMETs) have deployed to wildfires in Colorado, Idaho, Washington, California, and Oregon during 2021 and provided weather support to incident management teams during what has been a very active season. Curious what the role of an IMET is on a wildfire? See the image below or go to https://www.weather.gov/news/imet-article.