Re: [californiadisasters] CA Mass Casualty Wildland FF Death Incidents

Ok.  I have a biased opinion (former FF) so I'll toss this out to the group.  At what point does a LODD become a disaster?   Remember that some deaths are health related (in days past, typically heart/lung or poor lifestyle choices and issues).  Is it a number, experience loss or what?

I suspect that since LODD are listed on other sites, that it might be redundant to duplicate it entirely here.   What about loss of life from earthquakes, floods, landslides or other disasters?

Let's discuss this on the discussion group please, cross posted here. 

Rick

Blame the typos on the iPhone. It's awkward to type on one. 

On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:54 AM, sraddigan@aol.com wrote:

 

What about the incident up north in 2008 involving the helicopter?  Of course, I do understand your list may be limited to those who perished because of fire behavior, however that was not clear. I am not sure that the fire community would discount those who lost their lives in 2008 as not incident related deaths and continue to refer to this incident as Line of Duty Death (LODD).

 

/Steve 

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