ECHS just returned home from a 14 day assignment on the Indians Fire located about 20 miles west of Kings City on the Los Padres National Forest. On this assignment the crew was assigned to many different parts of the fire where we did everything from line construction( not too much) to structure protection and then assigned to the "Burn Group" where we did a lot of firing operations with hand held firing devices and the use of the heli-torch. There was very steep terrain, and lots of poison oak!! We had a few guys get oak shots and had a few minor hand injuries, but over all it was a pretty good assignment. The new guys think the Hotshots are all fun and games, just wait. We will have 2 days of R&R (thrs/fri) and most likely get reassigned to another fire in the nor cal area.
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