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Daveroo
June 7th, 2012, 19:49
seems it was a very busy day in northern california for wildfires...my area had dispatches all afternoon and we had "foriegen" engines in the unit for cover all after noon,my buddy was here on his day off and got paged to go out,,he is an HFEO,heavy fire equipment operator,,had to drive 35 miles to his station to get his dozer then about a 60 mile trek out to the fire..he was talkin to himself as he walked out the door...lol...had to tankers and an air attack on a fire near lake collins,and two helos..204 and 205,,205 is to return to vina tonight and then will be dispatched back to the fire tomorrow

BurningBeard
June 8th, 2012, 15:53
Gonna be worse tomorrow, we have wind warning starting at 8 am to 10 pm, at least it isn't hot.

Beard