Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center and NIOSH post reviews of 6 incidents

The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center has posted reviews of five incidents:

1. Safety Review of the Schultz Fire on the Coconino National Forest in Arizona, June, 2010, which burned 15,075 acres.
2. Facilitated Learning Analysis of the escape of the Breaks One, Unit Four prescribed fire on the Salmon-Challis National Forest in Idaho, September, 2010, which burned 100 acres of USFS land outside the burn unit.
3. Facilitated Learning Analysis of the escape of the Fletcher prescribed fire on the Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas, April, 2010, which burned 212 acres of private land.
4. Review of the escape of the Lava Point prescribed fire in Zion National Park, October, 2009.
5. Accident Prevention Analysis of the tree felling accident at Crandall Ranger Station on the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming, September 2010. A 2-minute 3-D animation of the accident is HERE no longer available.

And speaking of reports, NIOSH released their analysis of the June 23, 2010 accident that killed Chet Bauermeister, chief of the Franklin Fire District 4 in Basin City, Washington, when his snow cat that had been converted to a fire apparatus rolled about 100 feet down a hill while he was working on a vegetation fire. Wildfire Today covered that accident HERE.