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SAFENET ID:

20170729-0001

Event Start Date:

07/29/2017 1100

Event Stop Date:

07/29/2017 1125 

Incident Name:

Bitterroot ABCD Misc

Fire Number:

P1EKS4 (0103) 

State:

Montana

Jurisdiction:

USFS

Local Unit:

Bitterroot National Forest

Incident Type:

Wildland

Incident Activity:

Support

Stage of Incident:

Initial Attack

Position Title:

Dispatch Center Manager 

Task:

Communication Support to multiple Initial attack fires 

Management Level:

N/A

Resources Involved:

Bitterroot Forest Radio System 

Contributing Factors

Contributing Factors:

Equipment

Human Factors:

 

Other Factors:

 

Narrative

Describe in detail what happened including the concern or potential issue, the environment (weather, terrain, fire behavior, etc), and the resulting health issue.

During a time with multiple new initial attack fires our radios malfunctioned leaving us with no communications with fire aircraft and ground resources. This created a dangerous situation where we were unable to receive crucial information about an active fire needing. This has been an ongoing issue, occurring a couple weeks ago during active fire activity and again yesterday when there were no impacts due to low activity. These issues are a total loss of communication on all frequencies on our dispatch radios.

Immediate Action Taken

Reporting Individual : please describe actions you took to correct or mitigate the unsafe/unhealthful event.

Called the individual districts to advise them and ask them if they could monitor radios for any traffic from their incidents. Radios came back on approx. 20-25 minutes after loss of use.

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