Dragging the line

Local Support

This was a slow fire as fare as flames go. That's not to say that we weren't busy. We were doing a variety of things. We patrolled the fire line, did a few days of mop up. We did some rehab work and in the pictures below you will see the other assignment we were given.

Unfortunately these pictures don't do it justice. In places it is really steep.

Dragging out the hose

There was two engine crews assigned to do this job. We dropped off four of our crew and they walked the line down pulling the hose with them. We took the two engines down to the other end of the fire line. Down to where it tied into the main road.

Each hose is an inch and a half size around and is 100" long. We pulled out over 4000' of hose in just a couple of hours. The crew did really well.

After we had it all down we butterflied each hose and loaded it into our trucks and transported it to a pickup location. Buterflying a hose is a different way of rolling up the hose. Hard to explain what it looks like but it is a quick way of rolling it up. In the end the hose looks like a figure 8.

In my next post I will show you the preparation we did for a burn.There is maps and some planning involved.