Goodbye Route Complex

After three weeks we were demobed from the Route Complex. That was my first 21 day run, and whew, I hope we don't do that anytime soon. We did fine but we were mentally tired and we were ready for a break.

It took two days to get home. We had our own layover in Bend and hit the hot tub and the Beer and Pizza! 

Neighboring fire making a run.

 These next two pictures are....well how can I say this....We came back to camp and weren't allowed to park where we had been for almost three weeks. We were moved to another parking lot......A half mile away. As you see the cars in the lot are overhead. Need I say any more? I'll Shut up now.

off into the sunset

After we made it home we had two days rest, and then..................

Green on Fire?

As we move around with a new Division supervisor and also some new ground we get the opportunity  to see something new. And remember we are in northern California. On this day they wanted us to check a few homes that had fire around them. What we saw is self explanatory. And for those of you who guessed it was Mary-J-U-Wanna, you were right.

Greenhouse full of plants

Empty greenhouses

Large water tanks

Harvested crop

Harvested

Solar power.

We were noticing how there was a number of civilian trucks that had water tanks in the back. We  wondered how they were blowing past the road closed signs. As you see we found out. They needed to water the plants.The danger level isn't as high for us as it used to be.Now many of the farmers were legal. So different from just a few years ago. Also not something we see every day on a wildfire.