Owyhee Fire continued July 4

As you can see there wasn't much fire action on this fire. We did have some work and some patrol. We did keep busy.

Heavy Equipment Ready for work

Wildland Engines Lined up and Ready

We had camp in Adrian. This is the sunset on the night of the the 3rd.

Tent area at Base camp. It was in the football field.

A Distant T-Storm

Makes you feel kinda small

Check back for more of the season in review. I will have July 5th in my next installment.

2013 Fire Season

Today I am going to start the 2013 season in review. It will mostly be pictures, with captions. You will see how our season went. Here is part one:

Oywhee Fire:

It was exceptionally hot on the way to this fire. On our way it hit 113 degrees.

T-Storm....Fire Starter

Stopped at road construction

Part of the convoy

Up steep and rugged terrain

Amazing views

Desert Beauty

Creeping fire

Retardant Drop

Mopping Up

We supported a hand crew with water

There was over 50,000 acres burned

Smoke whirl

A State Park in a nearby canyon

This was July 3rd. We drove three hours to get to the fire. It was already a dying fire at this point. 

keep a look out for the next post of what happened next In out season. Until then see you soon.

I'm Back!

Good morning to all! I just wanted to let you all know I will be back to blogging. I am sorry I have been away for so long. Sometimes life gets in the way.

I will soon post the 2013 wildfire season in picture review.

Desert Fire

See you soon! :)

Status Update

Hi All! I'mm Sorry there haven't been any posts. We have been moving and moving and moving. We may be moving again in a couple of weeks, However we hope not.

But I wanted all to know the blog will continue. As we get settled in I will continue the blog. I will also have the promised fire season in review as well. Hope to see you there!

Fire Season in Review

With the recent rains to much of the west it appears that the end of the fire season is here. So to that fact I will be having an end of the season review. So stay tuned....

R and R and the Redwoods

Today was then first of our R and R. We had finished 14 days of fire work. We will be back to work on the 28th.
We decided that since we were only an hour and a half from the great Redwoods we just had to go. So we did see them and also we went to the California coast.
Rather then bore you with a bunch of talk I will let you look at the pictures of our day.
Enjoy, we did.

Rain Delay

We are in a rain delay on the fire. We have had some good rain. The fire is mostly out. The plan though the is to burn some of the fire border. It is my thought that they are turning this wildland incident into a controlled fire. They do this to manage the forest resources. Below is some pictures of our rainy fire.