Well i ma sorry about leaving you in the dark. I know that i ended at a bad time but i had to get up in 4 hours to get a flight back to Id with the crew. This tour was a lot more fun then the next one. I left off with prepping the indirest line to burn it out. This is what hotshots call a "burn show" In the fire world everything turns into a show. Not really sure why this is but it just is. So anyway when we gett ready to burn the next day we have to wait until the RH is 20 or lower. So then we know the 10 hour fuels will burn very well. So when we start the burning it starts of pretty shotty. Towards then end of the line it starts to burn really well. I got to be one of the burners. Being one of the first burns that we did we like to switch off burners for all the rookies so every one gets a chance. This again is going to informative for those of you that are in the dark about how my job works.
The burners are people that hold the drip torches. The drip torch is filled with amix of regular and diesel fule. The mix is so it burns a lot easier. So we started with two burners and eventually went to three burners by the time we got to the bottom of the mt. I was one of the last burners and was right next to smoe huge trees torching out and it was amazingly hot. But when we got to the bottom of the Mt we tied it into the road. The burn show went of with out a hitch and some very little spots were found but easly controlled and contained. Afte the burn show we were told to mop up that line for the next fw days. the last day of the mop show we notice a collum in the green. By the time we got reinforcements the spot grew form a 4 x 8 to .10 of an acre. So pretty big. Got
The burners are people that hold the drip torches. The drip torch is filled with amix of regular and diesel fule. The mix is so it burns a lot easier. So we started with two burners and eventually went to three burners by the time we got to the bottom of the mt. I was one of the last burners and was right next to smoe huge trees torching out and it was amazingly hot. But when we got to the bottom of the Mt we tied it into the road. The burn show went of with out a hitch and some very little spots were found but easly controlled and contained. Afte the burn show we were told to mop up that line for the next fw days. the last day of the mop show we notice a collum in the green. By the time we got reinforcements the spot grew form a 4 x 8 to .10 of an acre. So pretty big. Got
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