6 Minutes for Safety

Mission Statement

The 6 Minutes for Safety Subcommittee (6MFS) provides national leadership and oversight of the 6MFS program. The Subcommittee is responsible for the development, maintenance, and distribution of the 6MFS platform, which delivers the daily topics, This Day in History, and the Wildland Firefighter Week of Remembrance.

Primary Objectives

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Provide daily topics to help firefighting personnel to actively troubleshoot known high risk situations encountered on the fireline.
Promote a vigilant fire safety culture by supporting the daily use of 6MFS by every firefighter and every fire program.
Develop critical thinking skills and awareness by creating meaningful learning opportunities for firefighters.
Proactively seek and sustain vibrant and collaborative relationships with other wildland fire partners such as the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center, the Hazard Tree Subcommittee, the Wildland Fire annual refresher group, National Technology and Development Program, the Wildland Fire Leadership Committee, and all field personnel.

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View today's Incident Management Situation Report.

May 2024
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
28 Hazard Tree - Situational Awareness	29 Take 5@2 PPE	30 Constructing Line Without a Safe Anchor Point	1 Leading Up	2 Vehicle Entrapment	3 Aircraft and Pilot Carding	4 Avoiding Fuel Geysering
5 Communication	6 Helicopter Landing Zone Selection	7 Extreme Fire Behavior – II	8 Chainsaw Safety	9 Bees and Wasps	10 Ash Pit Hazards	11 Driving Safety
12 Downhill Fireline Construction Checklist	13 Aviation Communications	14 Entrapment Avoidance	15 Fire Not Scouted and Sized Up	16 Frequent Spot Fires Across the Line	17 Making Sound and Timely Decisions	18 Falling Snags
19 Extended Attack	20 Fight Fire Aggressively But Provide for Safety First	21 Avoiding Fuel Geysering	22 Instructions and Assignments Not Clear	23 Escape Routes 1	24 Escape Routes 2	25 Escape Routes 3
26 Effects of Smoke Exposure	27 Managing Vehicle Traffic in Smoke	28 Fire Shelter Deployment	29 Aviation Mishap Response	30 Hazard Tree - No Work Zones	31 NFDRS PocketCards

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Aviation

Felling Safety

Fire Communication

Firefighter Health First Aid

Leadership

Misc Fireline Hazards

Operational Engagement

This Day in History

Vehicles Roads

Weather Fire Behavior

Week of Remembrance

In the same Committee as 6MFS

Chair: Benjamin Evans

NWCG Coordinator: Katy O'Hara

Parent Committee: Risk Management Committee

Meeting Schedule: TBD

Page Last Modified or Reviewed: 05/08/2024

NWCG Latest Announcements

2024 Week of Remembrance

Date: June 27, 2024
Contact: 6 Minutes for Safety Subcommittee

As we approach the 2024 Week of Remembrance (WOR), June 30 to July 6, we dedicate this time to thoughtfully reviewing and recognizing the events of the 2018 Mendocino Complex. As such, this year’s theme of “Learning From the Mendocino Complex” embodies a longstanding hallmark of WOR, honoring through learning.

Throughout the week, our energy will be directed toward fostering generative conversations in briefing rooms and at tailgates.

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6 Minutes for Safety - 2024 Week of Remembrance

Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center

Updated NWCG Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment, PMS 236

Date: June 24, 2024
Contact: Incident and Position Standards Committee

The June 2024 update of the NWCG Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment, PMS 236, is now available to meet the current needs for incident management typing.

The NWCG Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment should be used to evaluate firefighter safety issues, assess risk, and identify the appropriate incident management organization based on incident complexity. Assessing risk, determining incident complexity, and identifying an appropriate incident management organization is a subjective process based on examining a combination of indicators or factors, which can change over time.

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NWCG Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment, PMS 236

Operations Branch Director (OPBD) Next Gen PTB Available

Date: June 10, 2024
Contact: NWCG Feedback

The NWCG Position Task Book for Operations Branch Director (OPBD), PMS 311-109 is now available for use within the OPBD position qualification pathway. As part of the transition to Complex Incident Management (CIM), the OPBD Next Gen PTB was developed and the position qualification pathway updated.

More information about the Next Gen PTB format can be found on the NWCG Position Task Book webpage.

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Operations Branch Director Position Page

Operations Branch Director Next Gen PTB

NWCG Position Task Books

Updated NWCG Standards for Interagency Incident Business Management, PMS 902

Date: June 5, 2024
Contact: NWCG Incident Business Committee

The 2024 revision of the NWCG Standards for Interagency Incident Business Management, PMS 902 is now available. The uniform application of interagency incident business management standards is critical to interagency fire operations. PMS 902 assists NWCG agencies in constructively working together to provide effective execution of each agency's incident business management program.

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PMS 902

National Wildfire Coordinating Group

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