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18 Watchout Situations

By Garrett Jones

3. Safety zones and escape routes not identified

2. In country not seen in daylight

  • Wind Shift
  • Time of day
  • Emergency evacuation
  • Must be a top priority
  • Deployment Zone
  • Unfamiliar roads
  • Sink holes
  • Wildlife

4. Unfamiliar with weather and local factors infuencing fire behavior

  • Humitity, wind direction, temperature, lightning
  • Fuel types
  • Homes
  • Yarnell hill fire

1. Fire Not Scouted or Sized-up

  • Boxed Canyons
  • Unfamilar Territory
  • Changing Topography
  • Size

5. Uninformed on strategy, tactics, and hazards

  • Debriefing
  • Multiple agencies performing the same task
  • Airdrop locations
  • Main objectives

6. Instructions and assignments unclear

  • Causing more work
  • Not completing tasks
  • Freelancing

7.No communication link with crewmembers or supervisor

  • Radio
  • Repeating orders down the line
  • Uninformed on division orders

8. Constructing line without a safe anchor point

9. Building fireline downhill with fire below

  • Wind shift
  • Radiant heat
  • fuel types
  • spot fires

10. Attempting frontal assault on fire

  • Fire finger
  • Rate of growth
  • Topography

Incorrect

Correct

10. Unburned fuel between you and the fire

  • Speaks for itself

12. Cannot see main fire; not in contact with someone who can

  • Lookouts
  • Mann Gulch Fire
  • Yarnell Hill Fire

13. On hillside where rolling material can ignite fuel below

  • monitor fire activity closely
  • Cut trenches to catch the material

14. Weather becoming hotter and drier

  • Measure the humidity
  • Be aware of fine fuels

Watchout Situations History

15. The wind is increasing or changing direction

  • Fire creating its own conditions
  • Unpredictable

16. Getting frequent spotfires across line

18. Taking a nap near fireline

  • Reevaluate location
  • Abandon plan and create a secondary control line
  • Unburned fuels
  • Rekindling
  • Tractors/Bulldozers
  • Communicate with crew

17. Terrain and fuels make escape to safety zones difficult

  • Safety issue
  • Create a new safety zone
  • Divert fire line to a safer area

Before the 18 Watchout situations were made, The original ten Standard Firefighting orders were developed in 1957 by a task force lead by the USDA-Forest Service Chief Richard E. Mcardle.

  • Records of 16 tradegy fires in 1937 to 1956.

Shorty after the 10 Standard Firefighting Orders were created, the 18 Situations That Shout Watch Out were introduced.

  • More specific
  • Reduce Death
  • Survival Checklist
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