Why Talk About Entrapments?

In January 2018, as part of work on the 2017 Annual Incident Review Summary, LLC staffers Travis and Alex recorded this discussion about entrapments. Listen to their wide-ranging conversation to find out more about entrapments, what they really are, why we're reluctant to use the term “Entrapment”—and why we should use this term more often.

Link to the 2017 Annual Incident Review Summary.

Link to the Wagon Box incident discussed in the episode

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Wildfire Lessons

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Media Record Details

Jul 16, 2018

Alex Viktora, Travis Dotson

Cataloging Information

Topic(s):
Human Dimensions of Fire Management
Decisionmaking & Sensemaking
Human Factors of Firefighter Safety
Operational
Wildland Firefighter Health

NRFSN number: 29019
Record updated: