Originally Posted by
big john
Today I went for a short ride near yesterday's small-ish brush fire. Crews were mopping up hot spots but I saw no open flame, just some smoldering. At one point the fire jumped the freeway and the parallel 4 lane highway and lit up a group of oak trees. There were at least 30 men there working to cut apart these old oaks to extinguish them. Once the fire gets into the trees it can burn into the roots and flare up days later.
I was a fire fighter, for a season, in Plumas National Forest. We were developing a brand new camp, which had some buildings but was out there and unfinished. I was the only one of the crew who was openly happy we didn't get called up. We once got called to the camp of a crew that did get called up. That was some steep terrain we were working in. Nastiness if there was a fire. I found something else to do the following season. 78 or 79.