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Fire Reporting Initial Attack (IA) Scenarios

• Imagine youre 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 youd do
• Instruct your crew what to do

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Fire Reporting and IA Scenario 1a

• Youre patrolling westbound from Ballast towards
  Huckleberry crossing. Its a clear day with
  light wind, temperature in the 80s 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

• Youre 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

• Youre 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 Theres 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

• Youre 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

• Its a hot late August afternoon and youre
  patrolling between Hwy. 7 and Ballast westbound.
• Theres 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.
• Youve 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)

• Its a hot late August afternoon and youre
  patrolling between Hwy. 7 and Ballast westbound.
• Theres 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.
• Youve 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 doesnt 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.
• Whats 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

• Its a very hot early August afternoon and youre
  patrolling between Hwy. 7 and Ballast westbound.
• There have been minor problems all day and youre
  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, theres 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 youre
  having trouble on the flank.
• The fire is getting very close to the house and
  it doesnt look like youre 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 youre 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?