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A lesson is truly learned when we modify our behavior to reflect what we now know.
 
Mission Statement
The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center actively promotes a learning culture to enhance and sustain safe and effective work practices in the wildland fire community. The Center provides opportunities and resources to foster collaboration among all fire professionals, facilitates their networks, provides access to state-of-the-art learning tools, and links learning to training. 
 
   
TriData Survey  (Posted 06/19/08) This year marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the TriData Phase 3 study. The SHWT and LLC would like to recognize this landmark study by highlighting significant accomplishments related to TriData, focusing on key recommendations that still need to be worked on to improve the safety culture of the interagency community, and identifying gaps in the TriData study recommendations. (Individual answers will be treated confidentially and only cumulative results will be used to describe responses. If you are unfamiliar with the study, or want to refresh your memory, please search the Lessons Learned Center Library using the keyword "TriData.") Please take this survey by August 1, 2008  Click Here to take survey

Initial Impressions Report - Type 3 Incident Management Organizations 
(486KB pdf posted 5/16/2008)
This initial impressions report describes and documents lessons learned and effective practices pertaining to the success of Type 3 Incident Management Organizations (IMO). This report also documents training and development challenges, as well as unresolved issues of concern that existed at the time it was written. It has become apparent that the wildland fire community will experience a growing need for, and use of, Type 3 IMOs in the coming years. Accordingly, the purpose was to learn from the experience of existing and successful IMOs, so that others starting out may benefit from their experience.
 
The Learning Curve - Issue 13
(901KB pdf posted 5/28/2008)
Lessons Learned and Effective Practices from the 2006 AAR Rollups featuring PUBLIC INFORMATION(Remote Information Post Establishes Rapport, Managing Adjacent Fires, Significance of Town Hall Meetings and Handling Intensive Media Interest), SAFETY(Preventing Dehydration on the Fireline and Providing Water Safety Training), LOGISTICS (Handling Excessive Community Donations)and OPERATIONS (Situational Awareness in Aircraft Operations and LCES and Operational Tactics).
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This special guide for teaching and facilitating High Reliability Organizing (HRO) reflects the presentations that were made at the three-day May 2007 Facilitating HRO in Wildland Fire workshop. By using and following this guide, the HRO teacher will understand the fundamentals of HRO and will be better prepared to facilitate these principles to
                                    others. Author Paul Keller, March 2008.

 
Lessons Learned and Effective Practices from the 2006 AAR Rollups featuring OPERATIONS (Water Conservation with Dust Palliative), PLANNING (Using Local Felling Groups and Contractors), and LOGISTICS (Using Spike Camps Decreases Safety Problems, Streamlining Spike Camp Deliveries, Coyote Camp Deliveries During Red Flag Conditions, Logistical Challenges in the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness and Successful Approach to Recognizing a Potential MRSA Infection.


Firefighter in Brush with Fire
Scratchline Issue 22 - Australasia and U.S. Lessons Learned
(1MB pdf posted 3/13/2008)
Staff members of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center and the Bushfire Cooperative Research Center recently interviewed twelve fire management professionals from the U.S., Australia and New Zealand regarding their experiences on one or more of their major wildfire assignments in these three countries as part of an exchange agreement . Specifically, these men and women shared their successes, challenges, effective practices, safety practices, and training recommendations.
NIFC Situation Report