Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center
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Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center
Learning in the Wildland Fire Service
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Episode 42 - Outliers
Erik Apland and Travis Dotson explore “outliers” in wildland fire – unusual incidents that highlight less-discussed hazards and how we prepare ourselv...
Episode 41 - Lessons on Structure Protection Operations
Structure Protection Specialist Hunter Bell III discusses his unusual career trajectory into wildland fire, and shares lessons on structure protection...
Episode 40 - Humble Accountability
Crew Captain Ben McLane describes what values-based leadership in the wildland fire service can look like in 2025. Listen in for some tangible tips on...
Episode 39 - The Importance of New Perspectives
Orlando Genao and Erin Hurley discuss their recent multi-month detail experiences at the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center (LLC) with Travis Dotson...
Episode 38 - Lessons from 2024
Erik Apland and Travis Dotson discuss stories and insights collected by the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center in 2024. This episode focuses on the...
Episode 37 - Unplanned Leadership Moments
Travis Dotson, Erik Apland, and Rebecca Sorensen discuss “unplanned leadership moments;” decisions that need to be made when the boss isn’t there.
Episode 36 - 30 Years of Growth: The Wildland Fire Service After 1994
Kelly Woods visits with Larry Sutton, Jim Cook, and Chris Wilcox to capture their reflections on the 30 years that have passed since the watershed 199...
Episode 35 - Mental Health: First Steps to Getting Help
Kelly Woods and Travis Dotson visit with Riva Duncan and Dr. Patty O’Brien about some considerations when deciding to seek therapy, how to find a ther...
Episode 34 - Lessons From 2023
Travis Dotson and Kelly Woods talk about lessons the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center received in learning reviews and reports in 2023. Travis hig...
Episode 33 - Firefighter Cancer and Wellbeing
Erik Apland talks with Erin Phelps and Kat DuBose about wildland fire presumptive illness legislation, some lessons associated with filing a cancer-re...
Episode 32 - Chance, Pain, Healing, and Hope
Kelly Woods visits with Tyler Doggett in a candid conversation about some of the mental health difficulties that often accompany a career in wildland...
Episode 31 - Two More Chains – Fire Workers
Travis Dotson and Erik Apland discuss the most recent issue of the quarterly publication Two More Chains centered on the wildland fire worker. Travis...
Episode 30 - Data Points – Your UTV is on Fire
Kelly Woods and Travis Dotson discuss the latest edition of Data Points that focuses on UTV fires. Data Points is the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Ce...
Episode 29 - Two More Chains – Lessons from Firing Operations
Kelly Woods and Travis Dotson discuss incidents featured in the latest issue of Two More Chains, the quarterly publication produced at the Wildland Fi...
Episode 28 - Lessons from 2022
Kelly Woods and Travis Dotson discuss lessons collected at the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center in 2022. The centerpiece of the conversation is re...
Episode 27 - Learning and Leaving a Legacy
Kelly Woods talks with Sarah Fisher and Chad Fisher about what learning in the wildland fire service means to them. Sarah and Chad describe their diff...
Episode 26 - When Options Run Out: The Human Side of an Entrapment
Travis Dotson talks with Brian Crowley about his experience during the entrapment and fire shelter deployment on the Bridger Foothills Fire in Montana...
Episode 25 - Fireline Lessons - Tangible Take-Aways from Recent Incidents
Kelly Woods talks with Travis Dotson about lessons gathered from wildland fire incidents occurring in the 2021 fire year. This conversation centers ar...
Episode 24 - Family Business – Two Generations Talk Fire and What’s Important Through the Years
Kelly Woods talks with Beth Lund and her daughter Allison Lund about the dynamics of two generations of the same family forging careers in wildland Fi...
Episode 23 - Reading, Reflecting, and Changing Behavior
Kelly Woods talks with Erik Apland about his assignment to read all of the entrapment reports housed in the LLC Incident Review Database. Erik provide...
Episode 22 - An Entrapment Survival Story: Before, During and After
In a conversation with Travis Dotson, Chris Fry shares the powerful story of his entrapment and shelter deployment on the 2006 Mudd Fire. We learn sev...
Episode 21 - Tree Felling Accidents...What The Numbers Say
Travis Dotson and Alex Viktora discuss the Tree Felling Accident Analysis – a report comparing 53 different tree felling accidents.
Topics cove...
Episode 20 - Command Presence
A conversation with Monica Morrison on Command Presence.
What is it?
What does it look and sound like?
How do you get it?
Episode 19 - Transitions
Travis Dotson and Brit Rosso have a great discussion about transitions, both on and off the fireline.
For more on this topic, check out the Fall...
Episode 18 - Slow and Steady: A Conversation Between Travis Dotson and Andrew Addey
Andrew Addey is currently a Forest Training Officer, a position he landed after ten years on the Sawtooth Interagency Hotshot Crew.
Travis and A...
Episode 17 - Entrapments
Why Talk About Entrapments?
In January 2018, as part of work on the 2017 Annual Incident Review Summary, LLC staffers Travis and Alex recorded...
Episode 16 - Bad Apples
In this podcast, Travis Dotson and Brit Rosso introduce the concept of the "Bad Apple" as it applies to the business of wildland fire. To do so, we ta...
Episode 15 - The Importance of Identity
In this podcast, we hear from Travis Dotson--a regular on the podcast--and Brit Rosso, the Director of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center and po...
Episode 14 - Nuttall Fire Series: Thomas Taylor, Flagstaff IHC Sawyer
For the 2017 Week of Remembrance, the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center is focusing on a single shift on a single fire from July 2004, the Nuttall...
Episode 13 - Nuttall Fire Series: Jason Virtue, helicopter crewmember
For the 2017 Week of Remembrance, the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center is focusing on a single shift on a single fire from July 2004, the Nuttall...
Episode 12 - Nuttall Fire Series: Dan and Corey from Flagstaff IHC
For the 2017 Week of Remembrance, the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center is focusing on a single shift on a single fire from July 2004, the Nuttall...
Episode 11 - 2017 Week of Remembrance: Why Talk About Nuttall?
For the 2017 Week of Remembrance, the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center is focusing on a single shift on a single fire from 2004- the Nuttall Fire,...
Episode 10 - How NOT to Catch Your UTV on Fire.
What if your UTV caught on fire? Yeah - it happens. In this mini-episode we get right to the point - why you need to take a real close look at the und...
Episode 9 - Burn Injuries, Why They’re a Big Deal
In this episode Alex and Travis chat about wildland firefighter burn injuries.
On the Blog:
Burn Injuries - Wrong Hurts!
Socks Matt...
Episode 8 - Fuel Geysers: A Conversation with Ralph Gonzales
Unfortunately, when it comes to fuel geysers, there are many popular misconceptions.
True or False:
"Fuel geysers only happen when it's ho...
Episode 7 - Drip Torch Leg Burns
2016 marked the eighth year in a row that the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center has received at least one report of a serious burn injury on the le...
Episode 6 - Scouting...High Risk?
Do you like scouting? Do you acknowledge the risk involved? Chances are you take on more exposure than you realize whenever you "go take a look". S...
Episode 5 - The Bull Fire Entrapment
What is it actually like to "Wag Dodge" it? What does it feel like to realize you are in a bad spot? What are some things you can do to prepare for t...
Episode 4 - Lessons and Data
Where do the lessons live? In this episode we discuss the relationship between lessons and data and why it matters. Along the way we wander through...
Episode 3 - The Contractor’s Dilemma
In this episode we tackle the "Contractor's Dilemma" - the idea that contract fire resources face different pressures that make some conversations abo...