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SAFENET ID:
20180713-0001        [Corrective Actions]
Event Start Date:
07/13/2018 1457
Event Stop Date:
07/13/2018 1510 
Incident Name:
OR-JEFN-000648
Fire Number:
LZ91 
State:
Oregon
Jurisdiction:
Other
Local Unit:
PRINEVILLE BLM
Incident Type:
Wildland
Incident Activity:
Line
Stage of Incident:
Initial Attack
Position Title:
Assistant Center Manager 
Task:
Dispatch And Initial Attack 
Management Level:
4
Resources Involved:
JEFFERSON COUNTY FIRE RESOURCES PRD E422 AND E625 
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.
During dispatch of IA assist to Jefferson county BLM Grizzly repeater failed to transmit to the field and field response was weak and unreadable. This occurred on multiple transmissions. The decision was made to transfer to a different command frequency mid dispatch to facilitate getting resources dispatched and to the fire.
This has been an ongoing problem with this repeater and several others in the Central Oregon area. There is currently a ticket in with FS CHD about this problem. The request ID is REQ000000887997.

This issue severely impacted COIDC's ability to dispatch resources and increased threat to all resources assigned to the fire.
Immediate Action Taken
Reporting Individual : please describe actions you took to correct or mitigate the unsafe/unhealthful event.
Our immediate response was to switch to a different frequency that covered the area of the fire.


Agency Response

20180713-0001-CA002
20180713-0001-CA001

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