Friday? The days of the week all kind of blend together. Yesterday was another red flag warning day. We started cleaning up another dozer line, this one headed into the fire in preparation for a possible back burn. Watch out situations present during the endeavor include #9: Building fire line downhill with fire below, #11: Unburned fuel between you and the fire, # 14:Weather becoming hotter and drier, #15: Wind increases and/or changes direction, and #17: Terrain and fuels make escape to safety zones difficult. We of course have mitigated these dangers by keeping our situational awareness up. Our squad boss, Jessica is constantly asking us to identify our escape routes, and we are in constant communication with Trish, our lookout, who gives us hourly weather reports and heads ups on the fire behavior. Today we started cleaning up that dozer line, then, shortly after noon we bumped down to the bottom of the hill and started digging hand line, up from the creek until we tied in to the dozer line.
Today Alex was sawing and Brendan was swamping. Clay was taken off the squad to shuttle hotshots to and from their work assignments. Today was just an amazing day! I hiked harder than ever, kept up the whole time, and while swamping, just pushed it! I was sweating hard all day, breathing hard, heart beating just kicking butt! It was so awesome.
We just heard that we might get demobilized and sent home tomorrow. :(
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