Wildfires that we respond to typically are handled by our personnel and equipment. Large fires do happen though, such as a very large one in east Tennessee in 2000. When that happens, a federal resource order is requested and crews from all over are called in. Keep your quals up-to-date and your name on the list. We hope that we can handle most situations, and typically we do, but wildfire danger can get very ugly under the right conditions, and we need folks like you to be ready for the call.
In ontario we have vast water supply so our fire ranger crews get deployed with power pumps and back packs of 38mm nylon hose and work up the flanks they usually use the shovels and polaskis for mop up it's interesting to see how other crews operate thanks
Great video. I'm from the UK so we really don't usually have wildfires on the scale of the USA. We do have grass, heath and smaller forest fires. With the recent fatalities at Yarnell (RIP hotshots) it is interesting to see how they would have worked etc.
Solo un comentario, si existe un manual en español, se llama INCENDIOS DE INTERFAZ Manual de Actuación, autores Jose Luis Dice Aragües, Federico Linari Belfort y Carmelo Fernández Vicente. Saludos!!!
I spent part of my summer and fall in R1 as a contract faller. I am from TN and wonder why there's never any calls for fallers down here. If you hear of a need send me a message in youtube!
