Wednesday, June 04, 2008


May 29. Negrito RX. The word of the day was over-head. The majority of fires I've been on this year have been RX fires that got out of hand. Since the fire world is certainly paranoid all the leadership up to the forest ranger came to watch the fire show. I feel our decision to burn was a way of saying that controlled fires are ok during the fire season as long as you have the skill and knowledge to do so. Many see what has been happening on other RX fires as a lack of oversight and experience. Some hotshot crews are even turning down RX fires because they are afraid of letting them get away. Not Gila, we RX burned our base...

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