To Play With Fire
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A lone lookout for a fire crew working in the valley below spins a weather reading in the shade of a tree at the Chimney Complex Fire in Idaho.
Crew foreman Cim Smyth directs the tool squad as we dig a fireline to the very bottom of Hell's Canyon and light it off, leaving a solid black line behind us at the end of the day.
Choppers drop buckets on hotspots during a frenzied effort at stopping a front making a run straight toward camp one evening.
Smoke rises from a heavily forested corner of our dozerline as a skidgine works to clear a tree that fell across into the green.
The heart of a forest fire rages as we stand fast just feet away, holding the line against spot fires and slopover.
Flames loom high overhead as our dwarfed crew stands ready to extinguish spot fires in the green.
Michael Mulcahy takes a knee as the torches are refilled.
A tired and well worked crew walks the fireline back to the road at the end of a day of backburning.