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SAFENET ID:
20200730-0001
Event Start Date:
07/18/2020 0600
Event Stop Date:
07/23/2020 0900 
Incident Name:
Bertschi Road Fire
Fire Number:
pnm9xy 
State:
Washington
Jurisdiction:
State
Local Unit:
south of Glenwood
Incident Type:
Wildland
Incident Activity:
Line
Stage of Incident:
Mop Up
Position Title:
Division  
Task:
Staging  
Management Level:
2
Resources Involved:
overhead  
Contributing Factors
Contributing Factors:
Human Factors
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.
at the staging area for division Zulu on the Bertschi Road fire, division zulu and various other members of overhead did not wear a mask a single day during the fire at the staging area during briefing, and while passing out food. While passing out food they proceeded to open the meals and I observed them cough on the meals, the coughing was not intentional but would have been mitigated if they followed procedure and wore a mask/face covering . This was all taking place as they were standing within 5 feet of a large mask/face covering required in this area sign. Every engine module and hand crew assigned to division zulu followed the procedures for wearing a mask at the staging area and where required.
Immediate Action Taken
Reporting Individual : please describe actions you took to correct or mitigate the unsafe/unhealthful event.
the actions our module took was to ensure we wore our face covering in all required areas and when we were in the staging area. We used alcohol wipes to clean our meal boxes and made sure to sanitize our hands and everything touched after it was given to us.


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