Wildland Fire Dozers

[OCR]

APA... Chalk Fire: Engine 56 Rollover

Very interesting reading.

Although good, that one might have been a bit boring... ... LOL


OCR

 

[bear]

Did you by some chance mean that wildfires are nobody's friend?

I know it's been awhile but yep that's what I meant Deas.

 

[JD9545R]

test

 

[D5G]

Although good, that one might have been a bit boring... ... LOL


OCR

I didn't think it was THAT boring, although I would like a redundancy free copy of that report. I have to wonder if they add all the redundant bs just to make the report longer, and look more 'official'? Thanks for posting though, made for an interesting read.

 

[OCR]

Wildland Fire Dozers:

Here's a few more.
This one is 52 pages long.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/rc00257t.pdf

http://www.wildlandfire.com/docs/2009/lessons-learn/dodge-escape-fire-analysis.pdf

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/177024/monster_in_the_woods_the_biscuit_fire/index.html

http://www.wildfirelessons.net/documents/Initial_Impressions_NorCal_2008_Lightning_Siege.pdf

There's a couple more that are interesting and I'll try and find them.
I have some saved on my computer, but I'm not sure how to link them here...Duh...


OCR

 

[OCR]

Wildland Fire Dozers:

Here's another pretty good one, at least I think so.

It's 99 pages long... 2.94 MB... kinda big.

http://www.wildfirelessons.net/documents/Angora_Fire_APA.pdf


OCR

 

[EZ TRBO]

amazing stories. You guys toatally earn your pay on them calls.

Trbo

 

[D5G]

Very interesting stories..in great detail. Very interesting reads, thanks OCR.

 

[OCR]

Thanks to all, and you're more than welcome.


OCR

 

[OCR]

Wildland Fire Dozers:

Those pictures of the fire-dozers are awesome, such an amazing view. What an awesome sight to see.

Hello WesternStar,

I just happened to find, in my opinion, an outstanding wildfire web site a few days ago.

It's not quite set up like a forum, maybe a blog or similar, but you can post comments on the material he puts there... and of course I did... lol

Also, I use OCR, as my name there too... yes, I'll get to the point soon... :tong... lol

3 posts from site:

PS. You have an outstanding web site, very, very well done, I'm glad I found it!

Welcome, OCR, and thanks for the kind words. By the way, I'm assuming that "OCR" does not stand for optical character recognition.

Well Bill, your assumption is correct, and I'll bet that you Googled OCR also. I have. (grin)

Google these key words, if you'd like: wildland fire dozers

Should be the first hit, then scroll, and scroll. You'll understand when you get there; I'm still trying to figure out some stuff about posting here, so I'll explain what "OCR" means a little later.

So I just now went through all the many posts on that thread... and I find:

Those pictures of the fire-dozers are awesome, such an amazing view. What an awesome sight to see.

I also find... nobody ever said, "thank you, WesternStar".

So, I'll fix that... "Thanks, WesternStar", from every one who posted a picture you liked... :thumbsup :thumbsup


OCR...

 

[OCR]

Wildland Fire Dozers:

Well, I guess they could be... but they do look just a bit different than the ones I'm used to seeing... lol


http://www.inciweb.org/incident/pictures/large/1856/8/



http://www.inciweb.org/incident/pictures/large/1856/9/




This is the link to the main site though, and it's good for coverage of current incidents:

http://www.inciweb.org/



OCR...

 

[alan627b]

Found this pic surfing on Ebay..thought it would be acceptable here..old school fire dozer.
Alan

 

[chevota84]

A 527 i worked with a couple years ago.

Two feller bunchers

 

[DIRTROAD]

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Found this pic surfing on Ebay..thought it would be acceptable here..old school fire dozer.
Alan

That's not old school. They took that pic of me just the other week!

 

[VjjR]

I'm not an operator... I was looking to get into it, I was on a hotshot crew 3 seasons and an engine before that. Just pictures I took while I was on fires, thought people would like to see. I haven't been on this forum in a long time, was really surprised to see this thread on top.

 

[RangerJake72]

Hi all, just joined up, I work as a tractor plow (as we call them in the South) operator here in Florida

 

[OCR]

Fatal Florida tractor plow incident:

From: http://wildfiretoday.com/2011/07/09/report-released-on-fatal-florida-tractor-plow-incident/

Complete 44 page pdf report:

http://wildfiretoday.com/documents/FL_fatality_Report_07-08-11.pdf


A tragic occurrence... may they Rest In Peace.

http://www.fl-dof.com/wildfire/memorial.html



OCR

 

[willie59]

Sounds like the firefighters, sadly, got caught in a tough spot. The report said that neither firefighter/operator deployed a fire shelter, what type of shelter is that referring to?

 

[OCR]

what type of shelter is that referring to?

This, Willie...

http://www.nwcg.gov/pms/pubs/newshelt72.pdf

And yes, it's sometimes called a "shake and bake".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuimX5rlZlY




OCR

 

[AT&SW]

Thank you to all puplic servants that put their lives on the line. RIP