Region 3 is spooling up!
ojo feliz fire ripping: (link to video)
http://images.ibsys.com/2006/0413/8657304_240X180.jpg
Who's doing what where this season?
I'm still getting my own situation worked out but I'll post 'r up when I do.
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Region 3 is spooling up!
ojo feliz fire ripping: (link to video)
http://images.ibsys.com/2006/0413/8657304_240X180.jpg
Who's doing what where this season?
I'm still getting my own situation worked out but I'll post 'r up when I do.
horray for hotshots!!!!!
Good to see R3 is starting to pop, can't stand another season not starting to roll until june. Start date is in three weeks or so, I'm pretty sure my ass is going to be kicked. I'll be doing another season on a shot crew in Norcal.
I'm taking this season off, and all the rest of the seasons. Just retired after 32 fire seasons, and sadly this one looks like the same-o same-o here in the southwest. I'm going to go climbing and fishing and have the summer to myself for the first time since 1974.
But be safe, and remember there's nothing out there worth getting hurt over. The most important things is to come home in one piece to the people that care about you. It's likely to get way ugly in the southwest this year.
I'm stayin' local & hopefully there won't be much action around here (Upper Ark). Eatin' smoke SUCKS! Tho I did ski through a lot of BC this year that could use a little fire... Dog hair thick.
How does someone get a job doing this?
You've heard of Google? But just this one time:Quote:
Originally Posted by jtran10
http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/people/employment/index.html
http://www.firejobs.doi.gov/
http://www.wildlandfire.com/jobs.htm
How much do you guys generally pull down in a summer? And just how dangerous is it? Have you guys had friends die?
It depends on the weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samwich
It depends on the weather.Quote:
And just how dangerous is it?
Have you? Don't be a dick.Quote:
Have you guys had friends die?
staying local this summer - our 1st baby is due July 4th, so I don't want to go off-Forest this season if I can avoid it
Congrats man, hella hard job I'm sure. I've got a few hotshot friends, stout mutherfuckers. All you guy's be safe and thanks. Cheers.:yourock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
props to those that fight fire.
ever use/come accross "redzone software?"
I expect to stay local in WA/OR as a TFL/STL as usual.
Just got my training class notices as a vendor.
I'm a driver w/vehicle, doing pick ups and deliveries on the line and to town. The pay is kill and it's the easiest job on a fire. I took the last couple summers off, but might do this one. Easiest 3K a week I've ever made.
how does one get that job splat?
This looks like a good way to spend the summer.
Shooting at Smokey?
I'm back on the Panhandle shots. Critical starts on Monday...I love critical. Yeah two-a-days. I'm pretty worried we'll be stuck in CDA on call for a month or two. Maybe things'll be different this year and we'll go to the SW early. The past 3 seasons our first dispatch has been the middle of June.
Not like Coeur d'Alene is a paritcularly crappy place to be trapped during the summer...
(I grew up there)
soul skier - You have to get signed up with the Forest Circus or BLM, have a 4X4 and do some bs training.
Sherpa - Panhandle shots??? Ask them if they know who Freefall Hall is. He was a Panhandle Shot who did his first jump after forgetting to hook onto the static line.
Yep, back for year 4. Freefall Hall, huh? When was he on the crew? I'll get the story. I'm surprised I haven't heard it already.Quote:
Originally Posted by splat
Back in the 70's. Dann Hall. Still lives in Sandpoint.Quote:
Originally Posted by SherpaStyle
He got a chapter in a book about hotshots.
I think the 40 year reunion is this year, maybe I'll get to here the story from the source.
Yes, and hopefully some of these types of activites as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by RootSkier
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My personal favorite, eating the vomit of one of your close friends.
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i'm going to start asking for change on the line, bound to hit sometime.
If I go off-Forest, I'll be sure and keep 5 pennies in my pocket (or pack) at all times.
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I don't think the Tongass is a bad place to be "stuck" Mike.
Not at all - hell, we even get a few rippers here in Southeast once in a while. Still, I'll miss the off-Forest squadie assignments in the Interior, Montana, etc.......
Don't let MT fool you boys, that mofo's flyin a desk this year. REMF.
It's starting to look more and more like another season of dispatch.
Unless I hear from one of the engine jobs I applied for.. I start in 2 weeks.
I'm already having nightmares: the other night I was on my way to go skiing and stopped by to say hi and drop off some paperwork and they made me stay for some initial attack. I was wearing my ski clothes with my helmet and ski boots... and I was all hot in there but it was so busy I couldn't even put the phone down to take my ski clothes off. I had no idea what the hell was going on I just started answering phone calls. That was not a happy dream.
Dispatch eh, well if you ever want to name request a crew......
Redding, Lassen, Plumas, Tahoe, El Dorado, Diamond Mountain, Klamath, Mendocino or Modoc?Quote:
Originally Posted by VC
Diamond
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Thanks for the years you put in, congrats on the retirement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
And thanks to all you wildland fire peeps, thats some hard mf'ing work!
I'm going to be curled up in a ball rocking back and forth sobbing and drooling in a corner of NIFC for the next week.
pray for me maggots, for I am entering the belly of the beast
Ha ha, better you than me! Go downtown and hoist a few at Bitter Creek - it might help.Quote:
Originally Posted by YetiMan
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I'd put money on the fact that you or someone else has lost that radio in the woods before.
Nope, not me - that's why I did that, though.
things are not going well for me so far this season.
My supervisor is after me, I'm scared I may lose my job and not be able to pay the bills. Job/house/skiing, all of this is in the balance. Can't get another fire job when I have a supervisor spreading vicious lies about me, can't get other jobs because most of my adult life has been in fire or skiing. I'm waiting to hear from WA-OLF but that's going to take time...
Heartburn, stress, endlessly planning some sort of financial/career/life escape route waiting for any of the small things that go wrong in my job to be blown way way out of proportion they way they've been. I think if I don't get this engine job I may not last the season here. :nonono2: I may have to sell the house and motorcycle and skis and/or move to another town to scrape by. Won't know until it happens though.