Toothbrush Party

So every year we have two planned parties on the crew. One after our first fire and one before the last day of the season. Anyway we tend to have a good time at these parties and this time I remebered to take some pictures here are a few for you viewing pleasure

Me and Clint (he works on the park engine) We have been friends for a long time. He lives up in the park housing so i go up and visit him when I need a break from life at the station

Paul and Jesse having a good time (it was jesse B-day)

Jesse becoming the gym teacher and making all the rookies do push ups. Yes he has his shirt tucked in and also has a whistle!!!!

Clint and I again later in the evening

Oscar and I
Oscar is one of the seasonals on the engine. I think we took this picture like 20 times. Clint kept making them blurry and oscar kept getting mad at him and making him take the picture over and over again.

No such luck

Well I am posting so that means that I am not on a fire. Yep that is right we didn't end up going ot Arizona. We left thursday morning drove an hour down the road and got a phone call saying that we were cancelled. The burn ended up being a no go....it was to dry and the helicopter that was needed ended up not being available. So yep I am sitting here waiting again. But the good news is that we had our annual toothbrush party on thurs night. I will post some pictures of the fun later.

Sitting waiting...but maybe not for long

So yes we are still here sitting and waiting for a fire dispatch....but the good news is that we may have on soon. It isn't to often that we find out a head of time that we might get a dispatch but we found out today that Saurgo NP in Arizona wants us to come to their park to help them do a prescribed fire.....yes I know it isn't a wildfire but right now we will take whatever we get. We are not 100% sure that we are going yet....we have to wait to see if a helicopter can commit to the burn and if they do we will leave Thursday morning for AZ.

Prescribed burns can be lots of fun and lots of work...sometimes they are more work than actual wildfire...like this one is a 10mile hike into it. Oh well. if we go we will be out of state and could even get sent to a fire on our drive to AZ

In other news I have a countdown here at work. We have a plaque in our training room that has the names of everyone on the crew that has gotten 50, 100, 150, 200 & 250 fires while on arrowhead. Well there aren't a ton of names on there(for it to count as a fire a bunch of stuff has to happen) and only one other girl so needless to say I really want to get my name on there.
Per scribed fires dont count so even though I would love to go do this burn I really want a wildfires because I am only 4 away from 50. So send good thoughts my way so I can get my 50.

oh yeah if you want to see some pictures of me at work go to my friend maura's blog (in the links)

Sitting waiting...but maybe not for long

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