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SAFENET

Wildland Fire Safety & Health Reporting Network

SAFENET Event Information

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SAFENET ID:

20200725-0002

Event Start Date:

07/16/2020 1400

Event Stop Date:

 

Incident Name:

Gate 5 fire

Fire Number:

 

State:

Texas

Jurisdiction:

State

Local Unit:

Incident Type:

Wildland

Incident Activity:

Line

Stage of Incident:

Extended Attack

Position Title:

Engine boss 

Task:

 

Management Level:

N/A

Resources Involved:

 

Contributing Factors

Contributing Factors:

Fire Behavior, Communications, Equipment, Environmental, Human Factors

Human Factors:

Decision Making, Leadership, Risk Assessment, Fatigue, Performance, 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.

Lack of experience by tifmas recourses in burnout ops led to multiple spot fires putting life safety at risk

Immediate Action Taken

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

Removed tifmas from area

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