By now, most of you (if you’ve been paying attention) have grokked that I am part of the fire militia. Two, three, sometimes four times a year, I get posted for a couple of weeks to a wildland fire (or hurricane (or terrorist attack)). My wife refers to it as ’summer camp.’ Anyway, here are some photos I took last year while at a fire in Idaho.
The smoke in this photo is from a second fire about thirty miles south. I used a brown filter to bring out the colours.
I spent two solid weeks, twelve hours a day, at this road block. You have no idea how many people have a problem understanding what “Road Closed” means.
The fire burned through this area a few days before. Most of the fire was a very healthy mosaic with fully burned, partly burned and unburned areas checkerboarded together.
One of hundreds of spost fires within the fire perimeter. This is in one of unburned or partially burned areas.
A thunderstorm approaching the fire. There was magnificent cloud to ground lightening, half inch hail, and plenty of wind. It did not blow up the fire.
A typical view of fire camp (with a full moon in the background). Sleeping in a tent, using outhouses, eating in a large tent, and working 16 hour days is typical for fire overhead.
All photos were taken with a Fuji Coolpix with a really nice Nikor lense.
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