{"id":9271,"date":"2023-09-29T11:46:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=9271"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:11","slug":"sawyer-wildland-fire-lessons-swamper-hit-by-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=9271","title":{"rendered":"Sawyer &#8211; Wildland Fire Lessons &#8211; Swamper hit by tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burbridge, Brian &#8211; FS, UT &lt;brian.burbridge@usda.gov&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Good afternoon all, Below is a good RLS where a tree being felled went in an unintended direction and struck a swamper involved in the operation.\u00a0 Thankfully all involved were treated and released from the hospital. This is a good opportunity to have a conversation about the good side\/bad side of the tree and the natural lean of a tree.\u00a0 When things don\u2019t go as planned and the hinge is inadvertently compromised, where will the tree likely fall? Thanks.<a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-29-114351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9273\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-29-114351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"947\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-29-114351.jpg 947w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-29-114351-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-29-114351-768x611.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lessons.wildfire.gov\/incident\/lookout-fire-swamper-hit-by-tree-2023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9272\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-29-114032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-29-114032.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-29-114032-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lookout-Fire-Swamper-Hit-by-Tree-RLS.pdf\">Lookout Fire Swamper Hit by Tree RLS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burbridge, Brian &#8211; FS, UT &lt;brian.burbridge@usda.gov&gt; Good afternoon all, Below is a good RLS where a tree being felled went in an unintended direction and struck a swamper involved in the operation.\u00a0 Thankfully all involved were treated and released from the hospital. This is a good opportunity to have a conversation about the good side\/bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9271","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\/9271","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=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9275,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions\/9275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}