Night shift

Last night was our first night of night shift. It went good.  We worked in heavy timber. We were doing a few different things.  First we checked the cluster of cabins to see if the pumps had fuel and looked at the hose lay. The cabins all had all the sprinklers set up. The day shift had set them up and then periodically ran the pumps to pre wet everything down.
The idea is that if the fire comes into the cabin area then the pumps get fired up and everyone leaves. Then hopefully the humidity will slow the fire and keep the homes from burning. These cabins are not defensible. In other words they aren't safe for us to stay and try to save should the fire make a big run through the cabin area. I will try to take pictures for you so you. An see what I mean. It's hard to get pictures in the dark.
Then when we checked the cabins we put in 1 1/2" hose along the road. We put down 2000 feet of it. Every 200 feet we put a gated y in and the a 100 foot 1" hose. At the end of it we put a forester nozzle on it. We put it in to be able to hold the Line. That means we want the fire to stay on the one side of the raod. If it jumps then we have fire on the cabin side of the road. Then we have real problems.
We slept...sort of in a fish hatchery.  It is hard to sleep during the day but we do our best. Now we wait for the 1745 briefing and then back up on the line.I will try to get more pictures to show you what we are doing.