What made my day today

After working all day getting fire ready today our boss gave us a great suprise. He made PT optional in the morning. yipeee. Most of the time on mondays we run for 1.5 hours and I wasn't really looking forward to it since we hadn't been running much lately because of so many fires. So I won't have to die on a run up a big hill. Instead if I so choose I can run whatever I please. We will see if I decide to get up and run or not.....who know we may have a fire by the time I get up to run.

In other news I can't remeber if I mentioned it on here or not but my little sis passed he Physical therapy boards so that is a huge relief for her. Congrats Laura!!!!! hope the one on sat went as well.

In case you don't hear from me for a bit it means that I am out on a fire hopefully making myself a little money

Winters fire line cutting

here is a video clip of us constructing indirect fire line and then burning out the area. Enjoy. hope this works!!

I was driving the truck you see at the end so I wasn't actually cutting line with everyone else.

Fires o my

Well we have been pretty busy lately. I just hope that it keeps up. Anyway after a run to Nevada where we saw lots of cows, grass, sage brush, jackrabbits and fire oh yeah lots of thunderstorms and even some hail (although that was only at the beginging of the run). we just had three days off. I didn't do to much exciting...drank a couple of beers with some friends that I hadn't seen in awhile, watched me, you and dupree...good flick....I laughed a lot....and went to puppy classes with maura and her puppy lilly. It was a good few days off.

We become available for fires monday morning eventhough we have to work tomorrow we are unavailable so we can get a bunch of stuff done in the office. We are now at preparedness level 5 which is as high as it gets so basically it means that we should go right back out again on a fire becuase resources are limited.

lets see what highlights do I have from the last run....not many that I can think of right now it was a long run and I have forgotten everything in the last couple of days.

oh yea some of you may have heard a about a burnover that occured to some other hotshots. well they are all doing fine. We were on the way to that fire but we got turned around and sent to a new start....so we not involved in the accident, but we did spend the next two days on that fire.

Pictures

here are some pictures from this run to Nevada......I hope you enjoy


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Im back from nevada

Hey all!!! I have made it back from spending 16 days in nevada on a bunch of fires. It was a long run. we were on 4 fires during htat time oh wait I take it back it was five fires. anyway I will write more about all of them later. All I can say is that I saw a lot of sagebrush and grass burn up, and even got hailed on one day.....but hey it is all in a days work. Now I am on days off and not doing to much. I am spending the day today down in fresno I am thinking of seeing a movie but I am not sure which one...either me you and dupree or maybe the new will ferrell movie.

Anyway thats all I got for now I will update more later....heres one picture for now