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SAFENET ID:

20190611-0001

Event Start Date:

06/07/2019 0856

Event Stop Date:

06/07/2019 0930 

Incident Name:

Vehicle failure

Fire Number:

 

State:

Washington

Jurisdiction:

USFS

Local Unit:

Wallowa-Whitman NF, Grande Ronde Fire Zone

Incident Type:

Wildland

Incident Activity:

Transport to/from

Stage of Incident:

Initial Attack

Position Title:

IHC Supt 

Task:

Traveling to IA on Fishand Wildlife jutidiction 

Management Level:

3

Resources Involved:

Crew buggy with 8 people  

Contributing Factors

Contributing Factors:

Equipment

Human Factors:

 

Other Factors:

Faulty equipment 

Narrative

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

While driving to an incident on Hwy 395 south a crew buggy lost power. It is a very busy Hwy and the buggy died in the median between the north and south lane. The crew had to cross out of the median on foot in the breaks of traffic. A rental truck then had to tow the buggy off the Hwy also across traffic when a gap presented itself. The concern if not obvious it the continual break down of the international crew buggies in hazardous situations(busy freeways, on the fire line, etc.).

Immediate Action Taken

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

The buggy got towed back to home unit and we are using rental trucks. At this point I’m not comfortable using the assigned crew carriers and plan to continue to use rental to assignments.

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