Burn Support

One of our assignments we occasionally get is to support a burn operation. On this day this what we did. The pictures below are some of what we saw that day

Where there is smoke there is fire

Flareup 

You can see the fire bumping the road. Our job is to let it burn but keep it away from the the other side of the road.

After the burn is complete it is time to mop up and put it out.  This can be a lot of work. When there is duff the fire likes to hide. You think you knock it out and then later on patrol you see smoke and sometimes open flame. So back to work we go. It sometimes takes many days of patrol and mop up to get it all out.

Other times it is good to just let it go out by itself.

The evening cool off. Smoke laying like fog

I will have more to come in the coming days. Things are slowing down.....sort of. I should be able to post more often then I have lately. If we get a dispatch I will post it as I have in the past.