Monday, June 04, 2007

Apache Fire. For several hours dry lighting hit the Gila NF. That lighting set off a bunch of new fires and sleepers (fires that are to small to be noticed). My squad was sent to the helitack base in Reserve to stage for initial attack. While waiting we did thinning around the district office. Before noon we got dispatched to the Apache Fire sizing about 8.7 acres. The other squad would meet us there ASAP. We dug line and bone piled heavy fuels. Before we had a chance to began mop-up we got called to the Joshua Fire. It took us the rest of the daylight hours to drive to the fire. When we arrived the route to the the fire from the road wasn't flagged. So, Dewey used his GPS to guide the night hike. After a long hike up hill Dewey discovered the coordinates were in Min, Sec and he was in Min, Min. Which put us off point more than a quarter mile. When we arrived on the fire it was almost completely lined and we headed back down the hill about an hour later.

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