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2022 Incident Review Summary

February 28, 2023 / wildfirelessons / Leave a comment

Use these 10 pages to spur discussions during your Annual Fire Refresher.

2022 Year-End Infographic

February 14, 2023 / wildfirelessons / Leave a comment

The 2022 Year-End Infographic is out. Take a look. Ponder. Discuss. Then take action on the lessons.

Tighten Your Chaps & Talk About Rocks

February 3, 2021 / wildfirelessons / 3 Comments

Lessons from 2020 incidents about chainsaw cuts and heavy equipment rollovers.

Unconscious With Agonal Respirations

May 16, 2018October 2, 2019 / wildfirelessons / Leave a comment

This is an excerpt from the 2018 "Chainsaw Training Limbing Accident Green Sheet". The instructor was diagnosed and treated at the trauma center for a concussion, head laceration, pneumothorax, broken ribs, and a C-5 vertebrae fracture. C-Faller field training on April 24, 2018 started at 0830 hours at CAL FIRE Bear Creek Fire Station in … Continue reading Unconscious With Agonal Respirations

Sawyer Down

March 23, 2018October 2, 2019 / wildfirelessons / 2 Comments

The following is an excerpt from this report: Felling Injury and Medical Extraction Incident Minerva 5 Fire. August 4 was the first day the Interagency Hotshot Crew was assigned to Division O. The previous five shifts on the fire had been a combination of direct and indirect fireline construction in steep terrain, heavy fuels, and near … Continue reading Sawyer Down

Lug Nuts, Skid Plates, Gas Tanks, and Dozer Brakes

February 28, 2018November 22, 2019 / wildfirelessons / Leave a comment

Some nitty gritty "get better" lessons from recent incidents.

Sorting the Lumps

February 15, 2018October 17, 2019 / wildfirelessons / 3 Comments

As our work on the 2017 Annual Incident Review Summary continues, we've got some more analysis to share with you.  Read this.  Do the Exercise and give us some feedback.  The final version of the 2017 Annual Incident Review Summary will be out soon! By Travis Dotson There it is - the 2017 season boiled … Continue reading Sorting the Lumps

Smokeless Danger

February 8, 2018October 2, 2019 / wildfirelessons / 12 Comments

At the beginning of each year we summarize and analyze incident reports from the previous year.  Check out these previous summaries.  This year we will post individual topics here as we complete portions of the analysis.  Take a look, engage with the exercises, and give us some feedback.  The complete 2017 Annual Incident Review Summary will be … Continue reading Smokeless Danger

Minor Rhabdo Fatal Burns

January 11, 2018January 9, 2018 / wildfirelessons / 2 Comments

By Travis Dotson Look at this word cloud: I collect very simple notes about the types of injuries listed in the reports submitted to the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center. I took all of the notes from 2017 and used a word cloud generator to make this one. The size of the word is relative … Continue reading Minor Rhabdo Fatal Burns

It’s Going to Happen Again

August 8, 2017October 2, 2019 / wildfirelessons / 8 Comments

By Mike Lewelling - Fire Management Officer - Rocky Mountain National Park The Safety Officer stated that the purpose of our review was to learn from this accident and to ask ourselves: “How could this accident be prevented?” A good goal, and a good question. But, even so, it is a question that bothered me. I recently had the unfortunate job … Continue reading It’s Going to Happen Again

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