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SAFENET ID:
20200409-0001        [Corrective Actions]
Event Start Date:
04/09/2020 0900
Event Stop Date:
 
Incident Name:
R5 Covid Response
Fire Number:
 
State:
California
Jurisdiction:
USFS
Local Unit:
Incident Type:
All Hazard
Incident Activity:
Readiness/Preparedness
Stage of Incident:
Other
Position Title:
IMO IC 
Task:
 
Management Level:
3
Resources Involved:
All 
Contributing Factors
Contributing Factors:
Equipment, Environmental
Human Factors:
Decision Making, Leadership, Risk Assessment, 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.
As the IMO IC for my forest I learned today on the Regional CERT call that required PPE and cleaning supplies that were ordered through the NIMO team prior and the region and Washington Office were turned down and Washington Office direction was to have the field units locate their own supplies . This is unacceptable for our wild land fire resources . Other agencies have figured this out for their critical infrastructure workers . We are forced to have our field resources look for bleach , ppe, cleaning supplies to make sure that they can start in May . I feel that the region and CERT team want to do everything to help , but the USDA and Forest Service Washington Office is providing poor support to our wild land firefighters who will need to be ready for fire season coming up shortly . Getting us supplies needed for safe and effective wildland fire response and station sanitization needs to be their top priority .
Immediate Action Taken
Reporting Individual : please describe actions you took to correct or mitigate the unsafe/unhealthful event.
Working at trying to shop for critical cleaning supplies and PPE and having very little luck due to nationally back ordered items .


Agency Response

20200409-0001-CA001

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