This video titled “Firefighter Safety in the Wildland/Urban Interface” covers three actual or near-entrapments on wildland fires, featuring interviews with the firefighters involved.
The incidents include:
- a tractor-plow operator in Florida,
- a CalFire engine crew in northern California that took refuge in a house as their engine burned, and
- a narrow escape in New Mexico that may have been on the Cerro Grande fire in 2000.
The video was produced by the National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Program and the National Fire Protection Association.
I’ve been using this set of videos/DVDs for the past 4-5 years in my RT-130 Refresher classes and they are well-received; there is also a video on Fire Behavior, and another on WUI Tactics. Each are 20 minutes long, and have an accompanying Instructor Guide to lead discussions. And they are FREE from the USFA.