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A member of the Ventana Hotshots works to keep fire out of a tree canopy during backfiring operations on the Monument Fire. In the United States, a Shot Crew, officially known as an Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC), is a team of 20-22 elite wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priority fires across the country and abroad. They ...
The Lolo Hotshots are a specialist Interagency Hotshot Crew [1] [2] based out of the Lolo National Forest in west-central Montana. [3] The crew consists of 21 permanent and seasonal wildland firefighters .
Lone Peak Hotshots crew logo. The Lone Peak Hotshots are an Interagency Hotshot Crew [1] located in Draper, Utah in the United States. The crew consists of 23 firefighters 7 of which are permanent and 16 of which are seasonal. [2] [3] The Lone Peak Hotshots season typically begins in mid April and extends until late October. [4]
That’s why even when a fire is 100% contained, it can still be blackening acres of land, and firefighters can still be battling to keep it from getting out of control.
Feb. 5—What does it take to build a Hotshot firefighting crew from the ground up? How about two of them? New Mexico officials are about to find out. The State Forestry Division, part of the ...
Also referred to as air attack. The use of aircraft in support of ground resources to combat wildfires, often most effective in initial attack in light fuels. air drop The delivery of supplies or fire retardant from the air. Supplies can be dropped by parachute, while retardant is generally released in a single drop of one or more trails, the size of which is determined by the wind and the ...
The Flathead Hotshots were established in 1966, when the Slate Creek IR Crew was relocated from the Nez Perce National Forest to the Flathead National Forest. They were subsequently renamed the Flathead Inter-Regional Fire Suppression Crew.
The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of firefighters within the Prescott Fire Department. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived (Brendan Mcdonough)—he was posted as a lookout on the ...