Friday, April 21, 2006

Mock fire. Our day was designed to be a fire situation simulation. The forest service took us to an isolated area of the Arapahoe/Roosevelt National Forest. After being briefed we set out to dig a fire line to contain the fire. They used simulated water drops and fire behavior (CO has 2 million dollars for air support this year). We did about six hours of fire line. Normally it will be an initial attack of 16 hours. As for the land it is going to be a controlled burn later this season. So the line we dug will be used at some point.

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