{"id":11809,"date":"2026-06-16T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:31:44","slug":"education-case-study-heat-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11809","title":{"rendered":"Education – Case Study – Heat Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Case Study: Heat Illness on an Early-Season Wildland Fire Assignment – NOLS<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Setting<\/strong><\/p>\n

You are working on a Type 2 initial attack handcrew in the Deschutes National Forest during the early part of fire season. It\u2019s one of the first assignments of the year, and while conditions aren\u2019t extreme yet, temperatures have climbed into the mid-80s\u00b0F with full sun exposure on a south-facing slope.<\/p>\n

The crew has been hiking, digging line, and carrying tools for several hours. Many members are new and this is the crew\u2019s second week together. Smoke from a nearby smoldering section of the fire is intermittently blowing across the line.<\/p>\n

Around mid-afternoon, one of your crewmembers, a 26-year-old female named Taylor, begins to lag behind. You notice she looks flushed and is moving more slowly than earlier in the shift. When you check in, she says she\u2019s feeling \u201coff,\u201d a little dizzy, and nauseated. She also mentions her eyes are irritated from the smoke and that her contact lenses are bothering her.<\/p>\n

You are the crew\u2019s designated Wilderness First Responder (WFR<\/a>). You decide to stop and perform an assessment.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>https:\/\/www.nols.edu\/blog\/case-study-embedded-tick-while-backpacking\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The setting<\/h2>\n

You\u2019re on day 6 of a week-long backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail in New York. The last few days have been beautiful, and you\u2019re so glad to be enjoying this time outside. You and your friends decide it\u2019s time for a break, so you sit down to enjoy some cool water and a snack. All of the sudden, one of your friends says, \u201cHey, I think there is a tick on me.\u201d You wander over and offer to help out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Case Study: Heat Illness on an Early-Season Wildland Fire Assignment – NOLS   The Setting You are working on a Type 2 initial attack handcrew in the Deschutes National Forest during the early part of fire season. It\u2019s one of the first assignments of the year, and while conditions aren\u2019t extreme yet, temperatures have climbed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11814,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions\/11814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}