Fire Origins
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On Protection of Towns from Fire — Benjamin Franklin, 1735

On Making Official History Honest — Kent Robert Greenfield, 1954

LCES—a Key to Safety in the Wildland Fire Environment — Paul Gleason, 1991

Attitude Check — Bill Fish, 1995

TriData Phase IV, “Developing a Cooperative Approach to Wildfire Protection” — Charles Perrow, 1998

Lessons From Thirtymile: Transition Fires And Fire Orders — Jerry Williams, 2001

Loop Fire Disaster Brief — November, 1966

1967 Task Force Report

• Preface
• Introduction
• Downhill Line Operations and “Chimneys”
• Communications
• Improve Scouting at All Critical Points
• Organization
• Protective Shelters
• Fire Protective Clothing
• Pre-Attack Planning and Construction
• Fuelbreak System
• Fire Behavior and Fire Research
• Appendix

2005 Fire Prevention and Safety grant application

• Synopsis and Budget
• Risk Assessment
• Evaluation
• Implementation Plan
• Justification

“Let others communicate their Thoughts as freely as I have done mine, and perhaps something useful may be drawn from the Whole.”

— Benjamin Franklin, 1735

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"On the actual day of battle naked truths may be picked up for the asking; by the following morning they have already begun to get into their uniforms."

— Sir Ian Hamilton, 1907

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“...we had called the shots as we saw them.”

— Kent Robert Greenfield, 1954

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“There's nothing here worth dying for.” — Don Mackey at the South Canyon Fire, 1994

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“If we have people in fire overhead positions that are more concerned about that trip to the employment office than the lives of their fellow employees, I believe we have some serious problems.”

— IC for 1984 Rainbow Springs Fire, 1997

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“Finally, the bulk of a safety culture is going to reside in responses at the lowest operative level that become almost automatic, unreflective, ‘just the way we do things here.’ ”

— Charles Perrow, TriData Phase IV, 1998

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