En la noche del 29 de diciembre de 1972, el vuelo 401 de Eastern Air Lines, un Lockheed L-1011 procedente de Nueva York, se estrelló en los Everglades, al occidente de Miami. Su tripulación de cabina trabajaba en una luz indicadora del tren de nariz que no se había encendido. [...]
On the night of December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 inbound from New York, flew into the Everglades west of Miami. Its flight crew was working on a nose gear indicator light that had failed to come on. Investigators later found that the airplane was [...]
En la tarde del 5 de agosto de 1949, quince bomberos paracaidistas (smokejumpers) saltaron en paracaídas sobre un incendio en Mann Gulch, una quebrada empinada sobre el río Missouri, en Montana. Esa noche doce de ellos estaban muertos o agonizaban, junto con Jim Harrison, un guardabosques que se... [...]
On the afternoon of August 5, 1949, fifteen smokejumpers parachuted onto a fire in Mann Gulch, a steep drainage above the Missouri River in Montana. By that evening twelve of them were dead or dying, along with Jim Harrison, a forest guard who had joined them. The only survivors were [...]
La mayoría de los socorristas aprende pronto que el Sistema de Comando de Incidentes (Incident Command System, ICS) pide terminología común y lenguaje claro (plain language) por radio, y muchos suponen que la regla llegó completa después de un solo desastre. El registro es menos ordenado. La... [...]
Most responders learn early that ICS calls for common terminology and plain language on the radio, and many assume the rule arrived in one piece after one disaster. The record is less tidy. The clear text convention came out of the FIRESCOPE work in 1970s California and spread through wildland... [...]
Poco después del mediodía del sábado 10 de julio de 1976, un reactor de la planta química ICMESA en Meda, al norte de Milán, se sobrecalentó y descargó una nube con 2,3,7,8-tetraclorodibenzo-p-dioxina, llamada habitualmente TCDD, sobre la vecina población de Seveso. No se atribuyó a la... [...]
Shortly after noon on Saturday, July 10, 1976, a reactor at the ICMESA chemical plant in Meda, north of Milan, overheated and vented a cloud carrying 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, usually called TCDD, over the neighboring town of Seveso. No human deaths in the immediate aftermath were... [...]
En el otoño de 1970 una serie de incendios forestales en el sur de California sacó de sus bases a motobombas, cuadrillas y aeronaves de muchas agencias. Esas agencias usaban palabras distintas para el mismo equipo, operaban con estructuras de mando diferentes y con frecuencia no lograban... [...]
In the fall of 1970 a run of wildfires across Southern California pulled engines, crews and aircraft from many agencies. Those agencies used different words for the same equipment, ran different command structures and often could not reach each other by radio. The FIRESCOPE program that followed... [...]
