Do you like scouting?  Do you acknowledge the risk involved?  Chances are you take on more exposure than you realize whenever you "go take a look".  Some super dialed-in folks have died scouting:

Link to Sawtooth Rx Entrapment (2003) full page

Link to Devils Den Fatality (2006) full page

Link to Frog Fire Entrapment Fatality (2015) full page

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Wildfire Lessons

The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center is a national, interagency, federally-funded organization with interagency staffing. It is an integral part of the interagency fire program created to facilitate a learning culture on behalf of all agencies with wildland fire responsibilities whether local, state, Tribal, or federal. The center staff strives to enhance safe work performance and organizational learning for all wildland firefighters and is a reflection of the wildland fire community’s commitment to honor through learning. The center hosts the "Wildfire Lessons" podcast to discuss lessons and organizational learning, click to see the Wildfire Lessons homepage for more information.

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Topic(s):
Decisionmaking & Sensemaking
Operational
Wildland Firefighter Health

NRFSN number: 29004
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