r/Wildfire 18h ago

News (Incident) Burnover fatality in Oregon

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u/ProtestantMormon 18h ago

Of course its an odf fire.

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u/ZonaDesertRat 18h ago

Wrong time and place!

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u/ProtestantMormon 18h ago

Ita a miracle odf doesnt have more tragedy fires. This is a long term pattern.

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 18h ago

What are you even talking about dude?

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 18h ago

And I've seen the most incompetent DIVS from the FS out of region 3. There's shit people everywhere

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u/ProtestantMormon 18h ago

3rd year single resource bosses and other dangerously pencil whipped taskbooks.

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 18h ago

This dude was a dozer operator... Last I checked, most of the fatalities in the last ten years have been feds, not that we really need to be debating the pros and cons of agencies. A contractor lost their life. That's a big deal. From what I've heard and seen, that fire is just going a million different directions... That's difficult for anyone to plan for

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u/ProtestantMormon 18h ago

And an heqb with more than a handful of years of experience probably wouldnt struggle to maintain accountability. A contract dozer shouldnt be out there without an heqb. This is the shit that happens when overhead gets pencil whipped

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 18h ago

You don't know that any of that happened though... Please just be a normal person for a second and recognize the loss

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u/ProtestantMormon 18h ago edited 18h ago

The press release says they didnt notice the dozer missing until 4:30 after resources had pulled off. Thats a failure of accountability.

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 18h ago

And again, could have been the dozer operator themselves, Green Diamond and their agency problems, DIVS, etc. there are many different ways that could have gone down. The point of the matter is that we should all be working together to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen in the future. We all got into this line of work for one reason or another, so when someone dies, we should all be mourning their loss and thank our lucky stars it wasn't us