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Report released on serious injury while suppressing fire aided by ropes
Report released on serious injury while suppressing fire aided by ropes A facilitated learning analysis has been released for a serious injury that occurred while firefighters were taking suppression...
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Video case study – Deer Park Fire serious injury complicated by helicopter...
Video case study – Deer Park Fire serious injury complicated by helicopter incident An injured firefighter is moved using a “conveyor belt” technique on the Deer Park Fire. Screen grab from the video....
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Powerline training for wildland firefighters
Powerline training for wildland firefighters The Salt River Project, an Arizona utility company, collaborated with the Coconino National Forest to produce the training video below that discusses...
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Video: personal protective equipment
Video: personal protective equipment The National Interagency Fire Center has released a video about the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) on a wildland fire. It features Bob Knutson, the...
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OSHA issues citation for firefighter fatality on Steep Corner Fire
OSHA issues citation for firefighter fatality on Steep Corner Fire (Originally posted at 2:00 p.m. MT, Feb. 12, 2013; updated at 5:44 p.m. MT.) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)...
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Report released on prescribed fire burn injury
Report released on prescribed fire burn injury A Lessons Learned report has been released for a serious burn injury that occurred on the Saddle Salvage Natural Fuels burn unit, a prescribed fire...
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Another Fuels and Fire Behavior Advisory — this time, Arizona and New Mexico
One of the Predictive Services offices has issued another Fuels and Fire Behavior Advisory. The last one, issued June 10, was for California. This new one, dated June 16, is for portions of Arizona and...
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Two fuels and fire behavior advisories for Colorado
The Rocky Mountain Geographic Area and the Upper Colorado River Fire Management Unit on the Colorado Western Slope issued two Fuels and Fire Behavior Advisories today. Below are the complete texts of...
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Southern California fuels and fire behavior advisory
One of the Predictive Services offices issued a Fuels and Fire Behavior Advisory for southern California. In this new one, most of Northern California has been temporarily removed due to the...
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A fresh look at the tragic Dude Fire
The front page of The Arizona Republic, June 27, 1990. (click to enlarge) A journalist, who is also an editor at Time, Inc., has taken a fresh look at the Dude Fire, 23 years after 6 firefighters were...
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National firefighter safety stand down, July 3, 2013
The National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group in a July 2 memo asked for a safety stand down, or operational pause, for the morning of July 3, 2013: **** “National Firefighter Operational Safety...
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Weather conditions during the tragedy at Yarnell Hill, and where do we go...
We first wrote about the thunderstorm that may have contributed to the June 30 deaths of the 19 firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire, June 30 at 6:58 MST. But since that information is buried in a...
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CBC: Canadian firefighters do not carry fire shelters
Fire Shelter. NWCG. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation quotes the chair of the fire equipment working group for the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre as saying fire shelters have not been used...
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Medical issues dominate the reports received by the LLC
The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center distilled this information from the 24-hour reports, 72-hour reports, and facilitated learning analysis documents they have received so far this year, about...
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Lessons Learned Review: Rhabdomyolysis leading to heat stroke
Trail on which the PT run was conducted. NPS photo. A Lessons Learned Review (LLR) for an unusual but severe injury has been released. A firefighter working for the National Park Service at Sequoia and...
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Some Montana firefighters no longer obligated to save homes from wildfires
Structure fire in Hot Springs, SD. Photo by Bill Gabbert. The County Commissioners of Lewis and Clark County in Montana recently approved a resolution making it clear that county-level firefighters are...
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Introducing — Safety Matters: A Wildland Firefighter Forum for Change
A group of people who care about firefighters have been looking at the safety and fatality record of wildland firefighters over the last 20 years. They are convinced that more effective steps can be...
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Wildfire briefing, February 6, 2014
Arizona: specialty license plate for honoring wildland firefighters An effort is underway to create a specialty license plate in Arizona to honor fallen wildland firefighters. The cost of the plates...
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Report released on USFS engine rollover in Wyoming
The U.S. Forest Service has released a report on the August 8, 2013 rollover of Engine 492 southwest of Newcastle, Wyoming. In August we provided some information from the 72-hour report. Below is an...
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New communication tool enhances incident management and situational awareness
At least 255 emergency management agencies in California and a few other areas have been experimenting with and in some cases using a new tool that provides enhanced situational awareness for incident...
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