SUPPLEMENTAL CORRECTIVE ACTION |
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Corrective Action taken by : |
Peter Tolosano, Regional Fire Operations Safety Officer |
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Date : |
03/18/2005 |
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Originator Notified by : |
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Email Address : |
ptolosano@fs.fed.us |
| What do you suggest to ensure this does not happen again? |
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Thank you for your concern for firefighter safety. The accusations you make in the SAFENET regarding this incident can not be confirmed at this time.
The investigation team has received and investigated all of these accusations. The actual causal factors of the accident have been investigated and verified in the course of the accident investigation. I am confidant that when the investigation report is made public the issues you raised and others will have been carefully considered by the investigation team. Since the Board of Review for this accident has not been held and your information is not first hand I can not respond to your suppositions.
This fatality was investigated by a joint CDF/USFS investigation team and I can assure you that all aspects of this tragic event including all human behaviors have been investigated in detail. Currently the report is in the final stages of editing and will be brought before a joint CDF/USFS Board of Review in May. Once the investigation process is completed the casual factors will be identified and included in the final report. The final report including the causal factors will then be made public as part of the distribution process.
As for your suggested corrective actions, I can only address item number 4. The CDF Helitack 404 Burnover investigation will be released after it is accepted by the Board of Review. The intent of a Safety Investigation is to learn from what happened so it can be prevented from happening on future Incidents. There will undoubtedly be recommendation made in the report that the agencies will receive and it will be up to each individual agency to act upon those recommendations. As for personnel issues, accountability and remedial training those issues will be dealt with through agency personnel channels if it is determined that there is a need for that to occur. |
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