For those of you who want to know more about my job or at least what wikpedia say about my job. Most of it is true but some of their definition just cracks me up
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A Hotshot Crew, or Hotshots as they are more colloquially known, is an elite group of highly trained wildland firefighters . They respond to the largest, highest-priority fires. Hotshots are organized not in "teams" but in "crews."
A Hotshot crew is a shared national resource that can respond to any fire emergency. As such, they are organized and funded by different government agencies including the USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service, various Native American tribes, and the states of Alaska and Utah; the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho co-ordinates on the national level. Hotshot Crews began in Southern California in the late 1940s on the Cleveland and Angeles National Forest. The name was in reference to being in the hottest part of fires.
IHC's are often catagorized as arrogant, too often the impression is from a misunderstanding or an isolated incident. As a rule IHC's are some of our nations leading wildfire professionals and the work they perform is often the turning point on a fire.
Their specialty is wildfire suppression, but they are sometimes assigned other jobs, including search and rescue - like the Sacramento Hotshots - and disaster response assistance. Hotshots not busy fighting fire will also work to meet resource goals on their home units through thinning, prescribed fire implementation, habitat improvement or trail construction projects
