Fire

I got my first fire here in Alaska.

on Friday I went out and flew a detection flight, which is where someone goes up in the airplane looking for fires. we had a report from a comercial airplane that they had seen a fire. so I go up and fly around looking for fires and we found 2 of them.

the airplane then dropped me off at a village's airport and then the helicopter came and picked me up and we went to the fire.

it wasn't to much of a fire but I got to experience having wet feet in alaksa...the minute I stepped off the helicopter I was up to my knees in water. it looked like a solid place to land but it was a floating bog..

I was on the fire for 3 days and then back here to Galena

the best part was that I got to work my weekend and that is always a good thing.

It is back to being cold and rainy here well today is a little bit nicer.

The best thing is that I was one of only a few firefighters here who have actually been on a fire this summer. The other fire that we had a bunch of jumpers jumped it. I wish I could have seen them jumping that would have been pretty cool.

I will try to post some pictures later of the fire... I just have to download them from my camera first