planes and the buldosers along with the hand crews and base camps . my jr high was used as a base camp extensivly and for staging. got to see the equipment up close .

and got encircled by the fire. It was terrifying, but obviously, I found the way out. My last big fire was in northern CA and the fire line was about a mile away. The smoke was horrifying.

The summer promises to be blazing!

Up close and personal, from initial attack to mop up and everything in between. I've called in air assets and built hotline in the wilderness. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, as we would say. I Knew by the Yellowstone fires of 1988 that it was time to find another line of work

Civil litigation.

are a regular part of our reality now.

I’ve seen wildfire, too close. Well in the lead of firefighters racing up an Idaho mountainside to build a fire line , on foot , I suddenly and unexpectedly came upon another fire crew working in a forested alpine basin at the base of a scree slope. Standing a moment to catch my breath, in the course of maybe two minutes max, the ambient smoke increased exponentially, couldn’t see 50 ft then in the span of moments all the smoke settled around my feet, the forest canopy above the crew in the cirque spontaneously combusted, then ground began to shake and the fabled and hard to believe freight train roar came up the mountain. Holy shit. We all escaped, somehow.