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SAFENET ID:
20190710-0002        [Corrective Actions]
Event Start Date:
07/10/2019 1000
Event Stop Date:
 
Incident Name:
Miller Fire
Fire Number:
P-3MC0X 
State:
New Mexico
Jurisdiction:
USFS
Local Unit:
Coronado NF, Douglas RD
Incident Type:
Wildland
Incident Activity:
Line
Stage of Incident:
Other
Position Title:
Safety Officer (T2) 
Task:
 
Management Level:
2
Resources Involved:
Line Safety Officer 
Contributing Factors
Contributing Factors:
Equipment
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.
Line Safety Officer driving into ICP from the fire noticed smoke coming from his KNG/BK portable radio charger which he had plugged into a power port in his rental pick up truck. There was no portable radio or battery in the charger.
He threw the charger out of the vehicle, stopped, and when the charger had cooled sufficiently picked up the charger and continued into our ICP and reported the event to me.

The charger was taken to Communications for evaluation. Commo tech's written evaluation is available on request.

I currently have the charger and if necessary will ship it for further inspection/evaluation.
Immediate Action Taken
Reporting Individual : please describe actions you took to correct or mitigate the unsafe/unhealthful event.
Documented the event thru Safenet, retained the charger, asked both the firefighter who had the event happen as well as the radio tech who evaluated the charger to document their actions in wrighting and pprovide their contact information.


Agency Response

20190710-0002-CA001

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