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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.
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.
