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SAFENET ID:

20180312-0001

Event Start Date:

03/10/2018 1300

Event Stop Date:

03/10/2018 1800 

Incident Name:

SAR - 40 Foot Hole

Fire Number:

 

State:

Oklahoma

Jurisdiction:

FWS

Local Unit:

OK-WMR

Incident Type:

All Hazard

Incident Activity:

Line, Support

Stage of Incident:

Initial Attack

Position Title:

Logistics Coordinator 

Task:

Communication 

Management Level:

4

Resources Involved:

County SAR, DOD, Air Ambulance, FWS, County Dispatch 

Contributing Factors

Contributing Factors:

Communications

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.

On going phone issues at HQ office; unable to use telephone to talk to county dispatcher while attempting to land Air Ambulance in a safe area lead to a landing on a public roadway thus blocking rope rescue crews from accessing the scene. Due to topography there is no cell phone coverage to area. Issue is that the land line phones have been out of service for an extended period of time and are consistently unavailable during SAR, fires and flooding/storm events.

Immediate Action Taken

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

Once again the local phone company will "look at it" to patch a problem.

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