Issues on 7.10.25
1. They were self demobing and lied to agency personnel about how it was being done.
2. They were told to stay in camp multiple times and disobeyed direct orders.
3. They coerced the driver into breaking her duty day and the Alaska policy on late night driving policy, 20:00 shut off time.
4. They also broke duty day requirements for themselves, by trying to get to town.
5. They would not give the admin staff their travel arrangements to set time for the return trip home on the OF-288’s.
6. They were repeatedly told not to leave Tok until 10:00 and disobey direct orders.
Concerns
1. Trust is the one thing we all strive to achieve in the fire organizations, mainly the trust that crews will not put themselves in harms way. By requesting that the bus driver break her duty day they endangered every person on the bus. The actual driving time to Fairbanks to Tok would have been 4 plus hours. An additional resource coming to Tok had that time this morning. The bus would not have been there in three hours, more like five hours, putting them into Fairbanks around 02:00. Huge lack of good choices for themselves and others and a giant step back in trust for this crew
Issues on 7.11.25
1. The total disregard for following instructions is evident. The crew got up before anyone else and slinked out of camp. The dispatch was not open at the time, and they woke the duty officer up @ 06:00 to let them know they are inbound to Fairbanks.
2. The bus driver and the crew broke every duty day requirement and work rest ratio policy NWCG and State of Alaska has.
3. Continued failure to communicate during travel, further enhance their disregard of Alaska Policy,
Concerns
1. The crew new that their flight was not on 7.11, it is for 7.12, that can only tell me that they wanted to get to town to party. While I understand the desire to do this, I do not understand the lengths they will go through to disregard safety, at all. |
