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S A F E N E T
Wildland Fire Safety & Health Reporting Network
Report unsafe situations in all wildland fire operations. |
ID # 4YZRXTSAFE |
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Date Reported : |
07/26/2001 |
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Agency/Organization : |
BLM |
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Event Date : |
07/25/2001 |
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Local Time : |
08:30PM |
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Incident Name : |
BUCK LAKE |
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Incident Number : |
G347 |
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Jurisdiction : |
BLM |
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Local Unit : |
ID073 |
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Incident Activity : |
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Stage of Incident : |
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All Risk |
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Transport to/from |
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Position Title : |
Firefighter |
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Task : |
Highway Driving |
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Management Level : |
5 |
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Resources Involved : |
Type 6 Engine 698 |
| Brief description of concern/condition or potential issue: |
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Retread on front tires is a safety hazard |
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Contributing Factors : |
Equipment |
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The front tires on engine 698 were retreads. They had been put on the vehicle only a week ago. |
| Describe: (Weather, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Terrain, Footing, Road Conditions, etc.) |
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Road conditions were good on the highway. |
| Describe in detail what happened including the concern or potential issue, the environment (weather, terrain, fire behavior, etc), and the resulting safety/health issue. |
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While driving engine 698 from Hailey to the Shoshone BLM yard, the retread on the tire came off and caused a blowout. The sparks from the rim of the wheel caused a wildland fire on the side of the road. Retread tires should not be used as front tires. When the tire blew, steering became very difficult. The tire that blew was on the passenger side. If it had been on the driver’s side and there was oncoming traffic, the vehicle could have swerved into that oncoming traffic and could have caused injuries. The blowout also knocked the fuse for the pump out of wack and we were unable to start the pump. If this had happened on a fire, and the fire was heading towards us, we would have no water support to defend ourselves. |
| Reporting Individual: please list anything that, if changed, would prevent this safety issue in the future: |
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I feel that if the front tire had not been a retread, the blow-out would not have happened |
SUGGESTED CORRECTIVE ACTION |
| Reporting Individual : Please list anything that, if changed, would prevent this safety issue in the future. |
| Please document how you tried to resolve the problem and list anything that, if changed, would prevent this safety issue in the future. |
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Retreaded tires should not be used on front tires for emergency vehicles |
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