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SAFENET ID:
20210503-0001
Event Start Date:
05/03/2021 0700
Event Stop Date:
 
Incident Name:
Three Rivers Fire
Fire Number:
P3NZN0 
State:
New Mexico
Jurisdiction:
USFS
Local Unit:
Incident Type:
Wildland
Incident Activity:
Support
Stage of Incident:
Extended Attack
Position Title:
Safety Officer 
Task:
Supply 
Management Level:
1
Resources Involved:
All personnel 
Contributing Factors
Contributing Factors:
Other
Human Factors:
 
Other Factors:
Expiration validation of supply battery orders needed 
Narrative
Describe in detail what happened including the concern or potential issue, the environment (weather, terrain, fire behavior, etc), and the resulting health issue.
Following the 0700 Ops briefing on 5/3/21, I had a conversation with the Ops Chief regarding a batch of both expired and currently expiring AA batteries that had been part of the supply order for the Three Rivers Fire. We both inspected a few flats of the said batteries, and validated that there was a significant amount of leaky/corrosive containers within the cases. We found both Rayovac 24 count plastic contained bricks(5/2021 exp. date) as well as, Rayovac cardboard contained sleeves of AA batteries(4/2021 exp. date) were both showing leaky expopsed corrosion. This is purely meant as an inventory reminder for all national cache systems as we start this early season for 2021.

Thank you
Immediate Action Taken
Reporting Individual : please describe actions you took to correct or mitigate the unsafe/unhealthful event.
Spoke with Logistics and ORDM. Sent group text to assigned safety officers to inform ops/field personnel to inspect AA batteries.

Reported info immediately following during C&G.


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