LLC Staff Picks 2020
The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center (LLC) staff reads lots of reports. In the recent Winter Issue of Two More Chains the LLC staff members shared their favorite reports from 2020. Here's what they recommended for you--and why:
The Repeats
[This is Travis Dotson's “Ground Truths” column that appeared in the 2021 Winter Issue of Two More Chains.]By Travis Dotson
Who Studies Fire Shelters? This Guy
[This article originally appeared as the “One of Our Own” feature in the 2021 Winter Issue of Two More Chains.]
Where are the Lessons?
We are the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center. A big part of our job is to collect lessons and share them.How do we do that?Well, sometimes it’s complicated. But not always.Here is the simple version of how it’s done. Lessons typically come to us through some sort of Incident Review. You know, FLA's, RLS's, LLR's, those types of documents. We collect those documents and put them into our Incident Review Database.So, one answer to “Where are the lessons?” is: “In the IRDB”.
Leading the Learning
This post originally appeared on the Wildland Fire Leadership Blog as part of their 20th anniversary campaign.
When Lightning Strikes
Have you heard the story about what happened to the two Helitack crewmembers assigned to their less-than-one-acre Kidney Lake Fire last August?Both firefighters were hit by the same lightning strike.
2020 Incident Review Summary
Cover of the 2020 Incident Review Summary“Action without study is fatal.Study without action is futile.”Mary Ritter Beard