Monday, June 12, 2006

Spring Gulch Fire - Three acres. Spent three days working on this fire doing a variety of duties. First job was filling blivets for the heli-tech crew. The blivet water bags are 55 gallons and way around 400 pounds when full. The helicopter was designed for the Nepalese army in the 70's and is allowed to carry 800 pounds when at full capacity. It can operate at extremely high altitudes. We also watched as it took several bucket drops. The next two days I spent mopping up on the fire, Also we did a fire check on the Gold Hill Fire. Fire checks are doing a final walk through a fire to call it out after mop up operations.

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