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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 # 7H2HNCSAFE |
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Date Reported : |
07/30/2008 |
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Agency/Organization : |
USFS |
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Event Date : |
07/04/2008 |
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Local Time : |
10:00 AM |
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Incident Name : |
WHISKYTOWN COMPLEX |
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State : |
CA |
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Jurisdiction : |
NPS |
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Local Unit : |
Whiskytown NRA |
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Stage of Incident : |
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Wildland |
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Line |
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Extended Attack |
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Position Title : |
Crwb(T) |
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Management Level : |
2 |
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Contributing Factors : |
Equipment |
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Human Factors : |
Decision Making |
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| 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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TFLD wanted us to use pink flagging for all sorts of tasks. I believe that there should only be two colors of flagging on the fireline, Orange and Pink. I also believe that the only thing pink flagging should be used for is marking escape routes. when you are hiking through the woods or down the fireline and you see a piece of flagging swaying in the wind 100 feet away you see the color, not what is written on it. |
SUGGESTED CORRECTIVE ACTION |
| Reporting Individual : Please list anything that, if changed, would prevent this safety issue in the future. |
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Upper level leadership should all be on the same page on this and it really needs to work from the top down, not the bottom up. Also supply should only carry orange and pink flagging. None of the Green or blue flagging, just orange and pink. |
| 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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When TFLD asked me to use pink for marking stuff I told him I only had orange, and used that. |
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