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2023 Incident Review Summary

The full “2023 Incident Review Summary” is out!

2023 Year End Infographic: Tree Strikes

For this last post highlighting the 2023 Year End Infographic, we look at the reports of "hit by tree" incidents we received last year. These incidents included both people and UTVs and getting struck by falling trees or limbs. These incidents resulted in numerous injuries, including serious, life-altering injuries, and one fatality.

2023 Year End Infographic: Entrapments and Burn Injuries

Today we are diving into the next couple of related incident types included in the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center's (LLC) 2023 Year End Infographic: Entrapments and Burn Injuries. How do we decide which incidents should be called entrapments and which are burn injuries?

2023 Infographic: Trouble on Four (or More) Wheels

Continuing our focus on the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center's (LLC) 2023 Year End Infographic, today we are looking at the 10 UTV incidents and 12 vehicle accidents reported to us last calendar year.

2023 Year End Infographic: Wildland Fire Fatalities

The 2023 Year End Infographic is out, distilling common themes and lessons from the nearly 150 incidents the Lessons Learned Center received in 2023. Over the next two weeks this blog will feature sections of the Infographic and provide links to many of the incidents that are referenced in it.

Don't Lose the Dirt

By Travis Dotson AnalystWildland Fire Lessons Learned Center

Wildland Fire Workers in America: The Bigger the Us -- the Stronger We Are

By Erik Apland Field Operations Specialist Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center[This article originally appeared in the 2023 Fall lssue of Two More Chains.]

Reflections on the Selma and Nuttall Staff Rides

The Vast and the Tiny; Progression and Recurrence By Erik Apland, Field Operations Specialist Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center

We Didn't Always Cut Line This Way

The Path from 1910 to Today by Erik Apland, Field Operations Specialist Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center