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SAFENET ID:

20210703-0001        [Corrective Actions]

Event Start Date:

07/01/2021 1600

Event Stop Date:

 

Incident Name:

Salt Incident

Fire Number:

P5N39N 

State:

California

Jurisdiction:

USFS

Local Unit:

Unified Command w/ Cal Fire Shasta National Forest

Incident Type:

Wildland

Incident Activity:

Line, Support

Stage of Incident:

Extended Attack, Transfer of Command

Position Title:

Firefighter 

Task:

Line Construction, Road Prep, Structure Pro, Camp Activities  

Management Level:

1

Resources Involved:

All Resources except Cal Fire  

Contributing Factors

Contributing Factors:

Human Factors

Human Factors:

Decision Making, Leadership, Fatigue, Performance  

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.

Lunches were not delivered until 1700 on the 2nd day of extended attack on a whole division. If this was a 1 time occurence, it would be no big deal. However at the end of the 3rd day, there were not enough dinners provided for all the resources on the divison. Most resources didnt even get dinners, again, understandable if it was a 1 time occurence. The last straw was this morning, when crews from the Forest Service & some contractors went to get breakfast & lunch they were told, and I quote "Lunches are for Cal Fire Only"... we are still on the line and we havent recieved lunches, its roughly 1420... we have eaten MREs in between chasing spot fires and bumping up and down the hill based on fire activity, it's over 100 degrees and the least they could do is give all resources a bagged lunch in the morning, not just a single agency. Meanwhile, cal fire was taking breakfast from the "shared" breakfasts. Some of the forest service resources went without breakfast also.

Immediate Action Taken

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

Filed this safe com, not in a position to tell agency admins what to do

Agency Response

20210703-0001-CA001

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