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SAFENET ID:

20250624-0001

Event Start Date:

06/20/2025 1045

Event Stop Date:

 

Incident Name:

MTCGF-357

Fire Number:

PIEKS925/0111 

State:

Montana

Jurisdiction:

USFS

Local Unit:

Bozeman RD

Incident Type:

Wildland

Incident Activity:

Line, Support, Readiness/Preparedness

Stage of Incident:

Initial Attack

Position Title:

Duty Officer 

Task:

Incident Sizeup to Billings Dispatch Center (MTBDC) & Communicatio with Duty Officer at District Office  

Management Level:

5

Resources Involved:

IC/Crew 

Contributing Factors

Contributing Factors:

Communications

Human Factors:

 

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.

Fire located within 1/2 mile of Radio Repeater (line of sight). Intermittent radio on both transmit and receive. Crew unable to communicate with Dispatch Center for fire size-up and fire status throughout the day.

Immediate Action Taken

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

BDC utilized another repeater to communicate with IC/crew (Eaglehead West). However, IC unable to establish communication with Alternate Repeater and required a radio relay near ridgetop. Cell phone communication was also needed to accomplish correct reporting to Dispatch. As stated before, Fire was located within 1/2 mile of repeater in Clear line of Site. Communication issues with Repeater!

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