The Only Way to Fly

Deer Park Wildfire – Chopper Rescue

One of our lookouts got pinned under a 200lb boulder while climbing to a higher position to observe a burnout we were doing. The LifeFlight helicopter that came to airlift our injured personnel landed and tipped backwards onto its tail boom. A second chopper lifted our personnel to safety, but the first was in a tough position which we remedied using a variety of methods: some tree levers, rocks, ropes and good old fashioned dude power.

Fire

Operating a Controlled Burn

Hero Shot

Just another day at work. Flathead Hotshots. This was the Deer Creek fire,  Sawtooth National forest, Sub alpine Fir and Douglas Fir, torching, spotting to 1/4 mile, isolated runs.  Hot as fuck, steep.  There for fourteen days, hiked about 500 miles. Actually lit a lot of stuff on fire on that one.