I've been called out on a forest fire. We have a lightning strike fire close to home and will be gone off an on but I'll try to keep everyone up to date.

Sigh, I sure do miss firefighting...

I'm finally completed both Electronic Site Fire and the Rough Creek Fire. I'm not officially off duty from both fires and now back to normal life again. I'll admit I'm a bit sore and tire not that sitting next to a water tender and filling engines with water was tough job, it's just that long days and short nights tend to eat at you. Glad to be back to a normal life.

For historic reasons... Here is the web information on the fires... Rough Creek http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3512/ Electronic Site Fire - This didn't get listed for some reason but it was a small 6 acre burn with in about 1/4 mile of the Cold Spring Repeater.

Welcome home, Mike. Be at home myself in about a week and a half.

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Welcome home, Mike. Be at home myself in about a week and a half.

good to have ya back mike!

I can't help but think of the old George Jones song called, "The Fireman", when Mike posts these posts!!! What's he really doing out there!!!

It's a dirty job but someone needs to do it. Mike, You may feel that you are not doing much but sitting & waiting but you doing that job frees someone else to be on the front lines. And you know your truck... I think you under estimate your contribution.I'm glad you are home. Job well done.

Actually I do understand really well just the fact we had filled 2 fold-a-tanks with 2,400 gallons of water and the the tender sitting there with 1,200 gallons saves the engine crews the 9 mile round trip down to the creek to draft water. So they only have to roll out about 2 miles round trip and load up from our crew and not even draft we will pump to the fill port or top load if they want. You just start getting punchy by the time the type 2 team leaves and you are back to smaller type 3 that isn't doing much. Last few day they might of taken 600 gallons off the water tender to give you a idea. Even the engine boss was saying we are not empty but figure its slow so we'll top off with water to given everyone something to do.

You guys might want want to smack my Facebook icon and check out a few of the pictures I've posted up.

Oh Mikey, dont send me to Facebook. the next thing I know someone will want me to start twittering.