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How incident commanders balance human costs

I am a wildfire incident commander and I have to send crews into dangerous terrain knowing some of them might not come back but if we do not go the fire will take the whole subdivision and I wake up every night calculating acceptable losses.

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You have to send people into danger knowing some of them may not come back.

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