WFTAK Website/General

Your username is the email address you used to setup WFTAK as well as the email address you receive WFTAK system correspondence from.

Only select Federal-beta testers are currently allowed WFTAK accounts. Check back on the News page for when WFTAK will be available nationwide. State, County, and local government as well as contractors will be able to signup after Federal employees, although the date is TBD.

You have a WFTAK account. However, your IRWIN Resource ID (IRWIN RID) has not been paired to your account. Reach out to your local WFTAK administrator first to fix the issue. If your local WFTAK administrator is unable to rectify the issue or you do not know who your administrator is, email dart@firenet.gov for additional assistance.

All BLM fire vehicle locations are captured via satellite devices. The USFS AVL is for fire vehicles with lights and stripping; however, the location system is cellular (LTE)-based. The remaining DOI sub-Agencies are in the process of adopting satellite-location services for their fleet.

Yes. You do need to change your callsign on each device, The default when you start up is ChangeME!! However, you can have the same call sign on multiple devices. We encourage users to only have WFTAK turned on one device at a time, if you are not changing your callsign between devices.

1. For example: if a user has 2 devices an iPad and an iPhone and the user wants to use the iPad on the engine and the iPhone for their person they should set there call signs appropriately
   • Engine: WA-OWF-E633
   • User: jSMITH-WA-OWF-ENGB633

WFTAK-specific training videos are not currently available. Check the News section for training material updates.

Go through your local WFTAK administrator first, but for questions beyond their ability to address email dart@firenet.gov.