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SAFENET ID:

20191002-0002        [Corrective Actions]

Event Start Date:

09/30/2019 0930

Event Stop Date:

 

Incident Name:

Santa Clara

Fire Number:

MT6W 

State:

Colorado

Jurisdiction:

Other

Local Unit:

CO-LRX

Incident Type:

Wildland

Incident Activity:

Support

Stage of Incident:

Mop Up

Position Title:

Dispatch Floor Supervisor 

Task:

Track resources monitor staff maintain SA 

Management Level:

5

Resources Involved:

Overhead/AC 

Contributing Factors

Contributing Factors:

Communications, Human Factors

Human Factors:

Decision Making, Situational Awareness  

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.

While a local Incident Commander was checking a fire that had been contained the previous night, Dispatch was contacted via phone by the radio technicians at the mountaintop repeater site that the radios would need to be taken down for @ 45 min-1 hr, this was in relation to an ongoing project CIO has been working on to replace the radio building at the mountaintop site. They would allow us time to broadcast outage, and would begin removing and replacing the circuits when we were done broadcasting. As I informed the floor staff, the Aircraft Dispatcher advised me that the 2 SEATs had begun their reposition and we were flight following them. The radios affected were the North zone national FF and Air guard, as well as north zone repeaters and base.

Immediate Action Taken

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

I shared the information with the floor staff as soon as i was made aware of the situation and the AC dispatcher immediately contacted the radio tech's on the phone and they agreed to delay. The radios are designed to have a backup and we transitioned radio coverage to the back up and checked with IC to ensure commo and another workcenter and commo was ok on the backup. The SZ national FF and Air Guard freq's worked as planned and the NZ FF and Air Guard did not. The Radios went down from 0954 until 1019, so disruption was indeed minimal, however the tming of the event presented an unnecessary challenge to the dispatch center staff as well as the field resources relying on consistent and effective radio coverage. We will work to reinforce the importance of positive communication between our unit and the local CIO unit to prevent something like this in the future. While we each work towards individual unit/team goals, we cannot underestimate the importance of working with all of our partners to plan projects that do not interfere or come at the expense of someone else not being able to accomplish their mission.

Agency Response

20191002-0002-CA001

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