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SAFENET ID:

20180918-0001        [Corrective Actions]

Event Start Date:

09/07/2018 1000

Event Stop Date:

 

Incident Name:

Noland Fire

Fire Number:

P3L4ZV 0306 

State:

New Mexico

Jurisdiction:

USFS

Local Unit:

Gila NF, Glenwood RD

Incident Type:

Wildland

Incident Activity:

Support

Stage of Incident:

Initial Attack, Extended Attack

Position Title:

Duty Officer/Fire Management Officer(Acting) 

Task:

 

Management Level:

4

Resources Involved:

Handcrews, Type 6 Engines, IHC 

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.

Ongoing communication issues with primary Repeaters for the fire area. Crews can Transmit on Bearwallow repeater, dispatch's transmission on Bearwallow continually cuts out. Dispatch can Transmit on SF Divide Repeater but crews cannot receive clearly and cannot transmit on SF Divide. This situation made communication with dispatch extremely difficult, sometimes taking 20-30 minutes of trying before they could get the spot weather through.

Immediate Action Taken

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

To mitigate crews coordinated with dispatch where they would transmit on Bearwallow and dispatch would transmit on SF Divide. This was not ideal but it was functional.

Agency Response

20180918-0001-CA001

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