Fire Shelter
Review of Entrapment Avoidance and Fire Shelter fundamentals.
Review of Entrapment Avoidance and Fire Shelter fundamentals.
Our goal is to never need to use a fire shelter.
Constantly updating LCES is necessary.
Entrapment Avoidance is Priority #1 for all firefighting.
Keep one foot in the black.
(Quick access to your Safety Zone)
Always (!) know your route to an area safe from a fire blowup.
Constantly keep processing in your mind:
What is the worst this fire can do?
What would we do to be safe?
What could we be not seeing right now?
Always (!) know your route to an area safe from a fire blowup.
Constantly keep processing in your mind:
What is the worst this fire can do?
What would we do to be safe?
What could we be not seeing right now?
Keep asking yourself: If the fire comes at me ,what do I do?
We need a never ending process of Risk Management.
Last Resort Survival (IRPG grey section last pages 30 and 31)
Escape If You Can...
Find a Survivable Area...
Pick a Fire Shelter Deployment Site...
Expect...
Analysis of Burnovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBstDqna2Ic
Shelter Training and PPE
Link
Site Selection
Link
Panther Fire deployment video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBstDqna2Ic
Shelter Training and PPE
Link
Site Selection
Link
Panther Fire deployment video
30 Mile Fire video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE-aWyxmroA
Practice shelter compared to a real shelter video
Link
Refolding the practice fire shelter video
Link
pdf Link
Practice shelter compared to a real shelter video
Link
Refolding the practice fire shelter video
Link
pdf Link
Fire shelter pamphlet now online
PMS 411- NWCG Standards for the M-2002 Fire Shelters
Fire Shelter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJsY6foLh8o
