In preparing for the 2024 fire year, take a look into these events and revisit the standard risks associated with chainsaw operations.
Lessons
Lessons from 2023: UTV Related Incidents
There were more UTV related incidents reported in 2023 than the past five years combined. The jump from 2022 to 2023 was over 300 percent (from 3 to 13).
2023 Incident Review Summary
Use this 10-page summary to guide your annual refreshers and prepare for the 2024 Fire Year.
2023 Year End Infographic: Tree Strikes
For this last post highlighting the 2023 Year End Infographic, we look at the reports of "hit by tree" incidents we received last year. These incidents included both people and UTVs and getting struck by falling trees or limbs. These incidents resulted in numerous injuries, including serious, life-altering injuries, and one fatality. Just as in … Continue reading 2023 Year End Infographic: Tree Strikes
2023 Year End Infographic: Entrapments and Burn Injuries
Today we are diving into the next couple of related incident types included in the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center's (LLC) 2023 Year End Infographic: Entrapments and Burn Injuries. How do we decide which incidents should be called entrapments and which are burn injuries? Obviously, some entrapments result in burn injuries, but that is not … Continue reading 2023 Year End Infographic: Entrapments and Burn Injuries
2023 Infographic: Trouble on Four (or More) Wheels
Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center 2023 Year End Infographic. This week we look at the 10 UTV incidents and 12 vehicle accidents reported to us last calendar year.
Waters Gulch Rx Helitorch Mishap
While dropping gelled gasoline to ignite the burn, the pilot flying the mission noticed a person in yellow and green below him, inside the ignition unit.
Firing Device Mishaps
Visit the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center Incident Review Database to check out these stories about when firing devices either caught on fire at an unintended time in an unintended location, or when the wrong tool was used for the wrong purpose.
Dutch Flat Entrapment
During the firing operation a fire whirl forms, causing an entrapment with burn injuries.
Fiddlers Island Road Burnout
Located in the Fiddlers Island dip site was an alligator and her four hatchlings. This mother alligator was starting to lose her fear of humans.
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