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SAFENET ID:

20180714-0001        [Corrective Actions]

Event Start Date:

07/11/2018 0930

Event Stop Date:

 

Incident Name:

Jalland

Fire Number:

 

State:

Oregon

Jurisdiction:

USFS

Local Unit:

Barlow

Incident Type:

Wildland

Incident Activity:

Line

Stage of Incident:

Initial Attack

Position Title:

Fft1 

Task:

Line Construction 

Management Level:

4

Resources Involved:

Crew 

Contributing Factors

Contributing Factors:

Fire Behavior, Environmental

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 July 11th 2018 myself and 2 other crew members were building hand line on the jalland fire, at around 1300 a type 1 helicopter started to work the fire line and about every five min we had to get back off the fire line to take cover about 30 min into the type 1 helicopter working we got to a point where we were next to a burned out tree, we had eyes on it during are work at that time I heard the helicopter coming back to the fire so yelled to one of the crew member to get off line when I turned my back to get off the line the tree we had eyes on came down hitting my tool out of my hand nearly hitting myself.

Immediate Action Taken

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

So after the tree coming down we reassessed the situation and repositioned to a safe area of the fire for the time being until the trees could be mitigated. During the AAR we talked about what happened and what we would do different.

Agency Response

20180714-0001-CA001

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