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University of Georgia Marchmester Class on Prescribed Fire at Joseph W. Jones Ecological Center in Baker County, GA.

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Roaring Fork Video

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The Roaring Fork Motor Trail | Great Smoky Mountains NP, TN

Great Smoky Mountains Park post-fire textures.

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Deer visiting firefighters on Chimney Tops 2 Fire on Great Smoky Mountains National Park | Gatlinburg, TN

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Smoky sunset over Fort Hunter Liggett, CA | August 26 2016

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California; the golden state. Carmel Rd, California

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Fire lookout on Chews Ridge wrapped in structure wrap. Soberanes Fire, Los Padres NF

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Crew 77 protecting the Horse Bridge in the Aroyo Seco Gorge on Los Padres NF during the Soberanes Fire

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I took a walk from South Portland to Portland proper with Tristan last night, the light didn’t disappoint.

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The Ridge Pt. 2

“The Burn Out”

After establishing a hand line down the ridge toward the drainage the weather was favorable for a burn out. A squad of 5 firefighters worked with drip torches to burn out fuels along the ridge line from top to bottom. The hope is to develop a wide enough line of burned out fuels that will stop the fire down below from crossing the ridge and growing past our containment line. The going was slow at first because we didn’t want to get too much fire established which then could push the burn out operation on the road above the hand line.

We were able to establish a relatively wide line which in places was over 200 feet wide, but before the entire ridge could be fired out the fire down in the drainage below blew up and made a run at the ridge line and burned over the ridge but then died down on the back side of the ridge. After the fire blew over the ridge crews were able to come back in and put out active parts of the fire that had crossed the ridge and we were still able to use the ridge line as the northeast portion of the control line on the fire.

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The Ridge pt. 1

“So what do you do on a fire?”

Sometimes you have to get way out ahead of the fire and pick an area where topography and fuels give you a fighting chance of catching it. On my last wildfire assignment we were working a wildfire burning in an old wildfire scar that was making runs up out of drainage bottoms when it reached areas of vegetation that wasn’t burned in the Biscuit Fire (2002), or areas where the fire burned at a lower intensity leaving brush and more grass available to the fire.

A plan to take a ridge line that runs from the road down into the wilderness and down to the bottom of the drainage was formulated. Using a ridge top to catch a portion of a fire is a common practice because the vegetation is usually reduced on a ridge top and if you have time to burn out along the ridge top you can use the back side of the ridge to your advantage(fire burns up hill much faster than down.) The work to establish the fire line and took several crews several days and while I was walking the line I took some photos. Here’s the first part of those photos showing the process of establishing a hand line that eventually would be used to burn off from.

Collier Butte Fire, Rogue-Siskiyou NF Oregon 2015

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