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Douglas Fir's avatar

Thank you for the post and update. We established Watch Out No.19 - Death From Above in 1985. Among other things, it includes overhead, gravity, e.g. rocks, hazard trees, etc., powerlines, aircraft, aerial ignition, aircraft, etc. This incident verifies that hazard trees and such are responsible for FFs and WFs being injured, maimed, or killed EVERY YEAR FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS BY HAZARD TREES. Call them ALL HAZARD TREES!

Moreover, based on the Sequoia-Kings Canyon NP 2004 RX fire fatality from a falling limb. Grant West Case Study involving Arrowhead HS, Daniel Holmes. (https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/grant-west-case-study.htm).

Paraphrasing here; In 2004, on the Sequoia-Kings Canyon NP Grant West RX Burn, an Arrowhead HS (Dan Holmes, RiP) was killed by a falling limb. I recall one of the SAIT formulas as something to the effect of - an object falling 40 feet will hit the ground in seven seconds, travelling 40 miles per hour.

Moreover, I was a SOF2 on the 2016 Strawberry Fire in Great Basin National Park in Nevada when a Lolo HS Justin Bebe (RiP) was killed by a falling hazard tree hung up in a green tree, that he was "stepping down." He basically walked right into the fall zone, crushing his spine, resulting in an internal decapitation. The two EMTs and a Paramedic basically kept him alive with drugs and such until they recovered his body. As usual, the SAIT-SAIR conclusion was established first, then the alleged facts to support it. (https://lessons.wildfire.gov/incident/strawberry-fire-tree-strike-fatality-2016)

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Bob Irvine's avatar

During the morning & night shift briefing safety concerns should be No. 1 priority

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