Goldedge Fire

I have just gotten back from our first fire of the season. We weren't there to long but we did our job and got the fire under control. The fire was located in the Sequoia N.F which is the forest next to our park. But it was on the south end of the forest so it wasa actually like 4 hrs away. It was a good first fire assingment. We put handline in the first day and then it go to a point where it was to steep to go any farther so we just had to wait and see what the fire decided to do. and well it made a run but we held our line no problem and it ran itself up into some really steep country and then pretty much ran out of fuel since it was all rocks.

The down side was that we held our line on a creek and well lets just say I saw some of the biggest posion oak plants that I have ever seen. I have gotten the oak but not nearly as bad as a lot of the guys on the crew. I lucked out and wasn't in there cutting line the first day. Sometimes we don't have a good place to park the trucks so we leave drivers with them. and I was one of the drivers this time. My job was to watch the fire and if it started coming towards where our trucks were to drive the trucks out so they didn't burn up. It was a boring job but it saved me from getting the oak as badly as I normally do.

Sorry no picture hopefully later I forgot to bring my camera up with me

now its back to the station and time to wait for the next one....hopefully it is soon. I need money