Earthquake

So last night I wake up at like 12:30 and realize that it seemed like my cabin was kind of vibrating. And then I realize that my bunny ears for my TV are moving and taping the wall. I think wow one of the Sequoia's must have fallen down ( I have heard that they have quite and impact when they hit the ground) The one that I did experience falling down wasn't that big and it shook everything. So I think nothing of it and go back to sleep.

I wake up this morning and think was I dreaming last night. Then at breakfast one of the guys brought it up and I was like sweet I wasn't crazy. So maura our cook got and the internet and sure enough there were a bunch of earthquakes last night. For the most part they were all in the mountains and after a little reasearch it appears that the strongest one was like 4.6 So nothing to exciting

So now I have officially felt an earthquake. I hope this doesn't mean I have to consider my self a californian

yep Im blogging so no new fires for me

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

Available

Good news, we are now available for fire nationally!!!!!!!



That means we now just have to wait til we get a fire call. So if I disappear and you don't hear from me for awhile that means we have been dispatched to a fire. But if you want to check up on me to see where I am go to the arrowhead website

I have had enough time at station so I am hopping that we get our first call soon.

My roommate

So most of you who read this know that I was the only girl on the crew last year so that meant that I had a cabin to myself. Well not this year....they hired another girl. I am pretty excited because it is nice to have another girl around. She is younger 22 I believe but the funny thing is that she just got done going to school at Calvin College in Grand Rapids...

I am not sure what I think of her yet but she seems pretty cool. The only bad thing is that she snores sometimes...but as long as she doesn't go crazy or get super annoying like my last roommate I think that I can handle that.

Some pictures

For those of you who wanted to know what posion oak looks like here ya go. It looks different everytime I get it but here is what the spot on my leg currently looks like.







Last week on of the guys decided that he needed a new hairstyle so we gave him a mullet......yep a mullet and he still has it.











Then finally here is a photo of one of the guys wearing some old saftey glasses that we found. Nothing to exciting but just a few pictures.