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Fire Reporting & Initial Attack (IA) Scenarios
• Imagine you’re the engineer on the fire train with the person sitting next to you as your crew.
• Take a radio mike and use it for all radio traffic
• Go through the steps for I. A. • Briefly describe what you’d do• Instruct your crew what to do
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 1a
• You’re patrolling westbound from Ballast towards Huckleberry crossing. It’s a clear day with light wind, temperature in the 80’s on a late July afternoon.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 1b
• You spot some wispy smoke about 25’ from the tracks in light fuel.
• Action on your part:• Initial Radio Report• Size-up
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 1c
• Initial Attack • With what• With who• How• Report back to Sumpter Depot with
progress and status
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 1d
•Critique: • What do have?• What are your main concerns?• What are your safety concerns?• How difficult would your
suppression activities be?• How would this situation impact
the railroad?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 2a
• You’re patrolling westbound from Highway 7 towards Ballast. A beautiful warm afternoon in mid-August with a light breeze. You notice some thunder heads building to the west of Sumpter and they appear to be moving your way.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 2b
• Suddenly your crew alerts you to a small column of smoke off to your left in some moderately dense brush
• Action on your part:• Initial Radio Report• Size-up
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 2c
• Initial Attack • With what• With who• How• Radio traffic, if any
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 2d
• As you start attacking the fire, you notice the wind picking up and see flames about three feet high in heavy brush ahead of you.
• Now What?• Size up• Radio Traffic• Your Action
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 2e
•Critique: • What do have?• What are your main concerns?• What are your safety concerns?• How difficult would your
suppression activities be?• How would this situation impact
the railroad?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 3a
• You’re patrolling eastbound between Bad Water crossing and Huckleberry on a hot, muggy summer afternoon with little wind.
• A thunder storm had rolled through the valley the previous night, with rain and numerous downstrikes.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 3b
• You catch a whiff of wood smoke and slow down to investigate
• Suddenly a man pops out of the brush, pointing south, and says There’s a fire over there and your train started it!”
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 3c
• You stand up on the fire car and can just barely see some smoke rising lazily above some heavy brush a hundred yards or more from the track.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 3d
• Action on your part:• Initial Radio Report• Size-up
• Initial Attack • With what• With who• How
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 3e
•Critique: • What do have?• What are your main concerns?• What are your safety concerns?• How difficult would your
suppression activities be?• How would this situation impact
the railroad?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 4a
• You’re sitting on the stub track at South Sumpter on another warm afternoon in mid-August with a light breeze.
• The steam train has just whistled off from the depot at Sumpter to begin the last run of the day back to McEwen.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 4b
• You look down the main line and notice smoke rising from a tie near the Sawmill Gulch crossing.
• What do you do?• Radio traffic• Instructions to the steam train• Fire suppression activities
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 4c
•Critique: • What do have?• What are your main concerns?• What are your safety concerns?• How difficult would your
suppression activities be?• How would this situation impact
the railroad?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 5a
• It’s a hot late August afternoon and you’re patrolling between Hwy. 7 and Ballast westbound.
• There’s a light, erratic wind and thunderheads west of Sumpter.
• The steam train has had firing problems and needed to stop twice to build up steam.
• You’ve waited back for them to get going again.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 5b
• As you get close to Ballast, you see a column of light gray smoke on the right in moderate fuel about ten feet from the track.
• You notice some foot high flames licking at the base of a pine tree.
• Your crew spots another smoke on the left side about twenty feet from the track in light fuel.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 5c
• Action on your part:• Initial Radio Report• Size-up
• Initial Attack • With what• With who• How• Directed at which fire(s)?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 5d
• As you get you start your initial attack on the fire to the right, the wind starts to pick up.
• That fire starts moving up into a pine tree.
• Meanwhile, your ever vigilant crew spots a third smoke on the right, further away and in denser fuel.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 5e
• Action on your part:• Ongoing Size-up • Radio Report
• Concerning Attack on these fire:• With what• With who• How• Directed at which fire(s)?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 5f
•Critique: • What do have?• What are your main concerns?• What are your safety concerns?• How difficult would your
suppression activities be?• How would this situation impact
the railroad?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 6a (variation on #5)
• It’s a hot late August afternoon and you’re patrolling between Hwy. 7 and Ballast westbound.
• There’s a light, erratic wind and thunderheads west of Sumpter.
• The steam train has had firing problems and needed to stop twice to build up steam.
• You’ve waited back for them to get going again.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 6b
• As you get close to Ballast, you see a column of gray smoke on the right in moderate fuel about thirty feet from the track.
• You notice some foot high flames licking at the base of a pine tree.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 6c
• Action on your part:• Initial Radio Report• Size-up
• Initial Attack • With what• With who• How
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 6d
• You decide to pull a 1” hose line for initial attack, fire up the pump and start into the woods with your crew and the hose.
• Your tactic appears to be working! Just as the fire starts up a tree, you hit it with water and the flames calm down.
• Some flame remains on the ground. As you prepare to douse them….
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 6e
• …you discover you are now standing in dense brush… …ALONE.
• You call out to your crew and he doesn’t answer.
• How many problems do you now have?
• Your action at this point is?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 6e
• So, you retrace your steps and find your crew sitting on the motor car, sweating profusely and gasping for breath.
• What’s your Radio Traffic?• What do you do?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 6f
•Critique: • What do have?• What are your main concerns?• What are your safety concerns?• How difficult would your
suppression activities be?• How would this situation impact
the railroad?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 7a
• It’s a very hot early August afternoon and you’re patrolling between Hwy. 7 and Ballast westbound.
• There have been minor problems all day and you’re following Train # 3, which is running an hour late.
• Finally, a light breeze has picked up to cool you off just a bit.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 7b
• As you come through the rock cut, there it is! You and your crew see it at the same time!!
• A fire has started on the right of the tracks in grass and light brush and is burning uphill towards a structure.
• The smoke is light gray and the flames a couple feet long.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 7c
• To top it off, there’s that breeze you were cherishing just minutes ago, encouraging the fire towards a rather nice looking home.
• Action on your part:• Initial Radio Report• Size-up • Exposures threatened.
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 7d
• Initial Attack • With what?• With who?• How?• Directed at what?• What are your priorities?
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 7e
• The fire is in light fuels and not burning terribly hot.
• You decide to deploy a hose line and work one flank.
• Your goal being to work the flank up to the head and be able to protect the structure.
• Action on your part:• Ongoing Sizeup• Initial Attack
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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 7f
• However, the wind is not helping and you’re having trouble on the flank.
• The fire is getting very close to the house and it doesn’t look like you’re going to get there before the fire does.
• Action on your part:• Ongoing Sizeup Report• Your strategy
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Fire Reporting and I A Scenario 7g
• About the time you’re ready to tell Sumpter that the house is about to become involved, a man shows up with a 1” hose drawing water from a small irrigation pump in the river and begins to hose down the area between his house and the fire.
• Action on your part:• Ongoing Sizeup Report• Your strategy
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Fire Reporting and I A Scenario 7h
•Critique: • What do have?• What are your main concerns?• What are your safety concerns?• How difficult would your
suppression activities be?• How would this situation impact
the railroad?