Conflagration/Mobilization Incident Reporting

Conflagration Reporting Assistance

The following information should be used anytime your agency responds to a conflagration:

• Actions Taken (Actions and Tactics): The actions and/or tactics taken by the entity at the scene of the incident.  
  
  
  Below are actions that may be most relevant for your incident report. Please select one or more actions taken, as applicable.
  
• Suppression - Outside Fire Suppression - Backburn. The act of setting a fire along the inner edge of a fireline to consume the fuel in the path of a wildfire, or to change the direction of force of the fire's convection column.
  
• Suppression - Outside Fire Suppression - Establish Fire Lines. The act of establishing a linear barrier generally less than ten (10) feet wide, that is dug or scraped down to bare mineral soil to prevent the spread of wildfires. This includes removal of lower ladder fuels (generally less than eight (8) feet in height), as well as the occasional removal of trees.
  
• Suppression - Outside Fire Suppression - Confinement. The act of limiting fire spread within a predetermined area principally by use of natural or preconstructed barriers or environmental conditions. Suppression actions may be minimal and limited to surveillance under appropriate conditions.
• Suppression - Outside Fire Suppression - Structure Protection. Protecting a structure from damage due to wildfires/outside fires by both preparation (e.g. removal of combustible materials, clearing vegetation, and shutting down utilities) and defense (e.g. protecting against flying embers and ash, applying of fire retardants by ground personnel, and application of water when available.)
• Suppression - Outside Fire Suppression - Fire Control / Extinguishment. The complete extinguishment and elimination of all identified threats from combustion occurring in an exterior environment utilizing water, retardant, and/or other methods. This action includes, but is not limited to, wildland or grass fires, dumpster/trash fires, and transportation-related fires outside of a structure.
• Suppression - Outside Fire Suppression - Hand Crew Fuel Break. The use of hand crews (firefighters, engine drivers, sawyers, etc.) to create a strip or block of land greater than twenty (20) feet wide on which the vegetation (including ladder fuels), debris and detritus have been eliminated, reduced and/or modified to control or diminish the risk of the spread of fire crossing the strip or block of land. 
• Location Use: The specific purpose, intention, or function of the primary structure.
• There can only be one Location Use type selected for this field. Because most crews likely worked across multiple Location Use types while deployed, utilize the Outdoor – Forest/Grasslands/Woodland/Wildland Area type for consistency. If your crew only worked on a single Location Use type while deployed, please indicate what that was under Secondary Use type.

• Timestamps:
  
• Dispatch Call Arrival Date Time: The date/time your agency was asked or ordered to provide resources by your county defense board chief.
• Dispatch Center Answered Time: The date/time your agency was asked or ordered to provide resources by your county defense board chief.
• Dispatch Incident Created Time: The date/time your agency was asked or ordered to provide resources by your county defense board chief.

• Dispatch Unit Response:
• Dispatch Unit Dispatch Time: The date/time your agency was asked or ordered to provide resources by your county defense board chief.
• Dispatch Unit Enroute to Scene Time: The date/time the resource was en route to the incident. This should NOT be the time resources departed to the task force/strike team rally point. This should be the time the AOC was notified that the resource was actually en route to the incident.
• Dispatch Unit on Scene Time: The date/time of the resource's arrival at the incident staging area.
• Dispatch Unit Incident Clear Time: The date/time the resource demobilized from the incident and headed home. 
• Dispatch In Service Date Time: The date/time when the resource was back in service from this response.
• Fire Service Casualty: If any fire service personnel are injured requiring medical treatment and/or resulting in time lost (e.g., heat stroke, insect stings/bites, exposures to poisonous plants) it must be reported in the incident report for the corresponding incident.
  

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