Red Ridge Fire. We've arrived on the Red Ridge fire, which is a part of the East Zone Complex. When a large number of fires get in a small geographical area they get named a complex. This complex is a type 1 incident, which means it is the largest and most complex type of fire. So far two hotshot crews are on scene including us. The fire size is approximately 800 acres but no one has GPS'ed the fires edge. Most all fires in the mountains of Idaho burn "dirty". In this case it mean a fire makes a crown run up a slope burning everything for a relatively small area. That initial burn will send embers up to a 1/4 mile or more starting hundreds of small spot fires. Today we started put line around these small fires. A daunting task that is seemingly never ending.