2. 2007

Yentna River Fire

Our largest fire we worked in Alaska this year was some fifty acres in the woods near Lake Creek on the Yentna River.
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Fried birch trees decorate the cloudy sky during mopup.
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Fried birch trees decorate the cloudy sky during mopup.

AlaskaFirefighting2007

  • Jeremy Mothershead
  • A grid search with the crew holding a line and gridding the black.
  • Fried birch trees decorate the cloudy sky during mopup.
  • Michael Mulcahy downs a tree with a hotspot high off the ground.
  • A makeshift raincoat for Adam Webber, built with assistance from Jeremy Mothershead. The rain helped us put the fire out.
  • Firefighters waiting for demobilization from the fireline: Richard Harrop, Aaron Seaton, Andy Zola, and Cim Smyth.
  • Andy Zola reflected in Richard Harrop's safety glasses.
  • Fire activity skyrocketed while we were out there, so resources were exhausted and the National Guard was called up to ferry firefighters. We got to fly home in Blackhawks.
  • Kalskag fire crew loads up for demobilization.
  • The National Guard blackhawk touches down to load up our crew and take us home.
  • A firefighter watches fascinated from the window of the blackhawk on the flight back to the road system.
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