Road trip suggestions wanted..Oregon
Ok so here is the deal. I have 9 days, two are taken up getting out of and back into California ( I can reach Crater lake with light to spare in one day from home). Cascade Volcano's are high on th...
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While I still work fire line on my local volunteer department, like you, I leave that heavy work to the young men and women that chase fire all summer. I now spend my time making sure that those firefighters get what they need when they come off the line. I now set up and run the large fire camps with a few hundred to over a thousand firefighters in camp.
This is our camp at the Entiat High School in Washington two weeks ago. Columbia River is about a ¼ mile east. My job was to shut down this camp down and return the property back to the school to prepare for classes. I then rebuilt it about 6 miles up the Entiat River at the Entiat National Fish Hatchery. The school is in the background, from left to right, little yellow thing is part of our supply cache, the semi with door is a shower unit, the funny army green tent is where the camp crew prepared up to 1000 sack lunches a day. The circus tents are the eating area with semi’s just right in the distance are refrigerated semis for food and ice. Yellow fly’s in background are the kitchen trailers where breakfast and dinner are prepared and served. Green box in middle is a 100KW generator to power the show. Tents and trailers to right are camp crew and kitchen help. Throw in a few porta potties and hand wash stations and it is just like home. Firefighters slept on the football field behind the trees. The new camp was set up with the idea of it being used until the fall rains or snow come. May be back up that way in a week or two.
While I still work fire line on my local volunteer department, like you, I leave that heavy work to the young men and women that chase fire all summer. I now spend my time making sure that those firefighters get what they need when they come off the line. I now set up and run the large fire camps with a few hundred to over a thousand firefighters in camp.
This is our camp at the Entiat High School in Washington two weeks ago. Columbia River is about a ¼ mile east. My job was to shut down this camp down and return the property back to the school to prepare for classes. I then rebuilt it about 6 miles up the Entiat River at the Entiat National Fish Hatchery. The school is in the background, from left to right, little yellow thing is part of our supply cache, the semi with door is a shower unit, the funny army green tent is where the camp crew prepared up to 1000 sack lunches a day. The circus tents are the eating area with semi’s just right in the distance are refrigerated semis for food and ice. Yellow fly’s in background are the kitchen trailers where breakfast and dinner are prepared and served. Green box in middle is a 100KW generator to power the show. Tents and trailers to right are camp crew and kitchen help. Throw in a few porta potties and hand wash stations and it is just like home. Firefighters slept on the football field behind the trees. The new camp was set up with the idea of it being used until the fall rains or snow come. May be back up that way in a week or two.
