gordo07

Made it home from a 34 hr shift on a fire, it doesn't help that our division chief forgot we were out there all night and thought we slept. Then had us sleep in a 110* campground while all other crews that worked overnight slept in hotels. This changes my opinion on fires that all personel and equipment on big wildfires should be federal agency...
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Was on a wildfire and was released last week from it, the same day had an LODD (line of duty death) on the fire. An engine crew we had interacted with prior. Later that same day from the chief that we were to be in the group to escort him home. Rushed to get the engine washed and detailed that night so it'd be ready...
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About halfway thru with this assignment, amd it looks like we'll be here the full 2 weeks, unless we get sucked into the big fire outside Prescott. Otherwise, things are slow, not much flying. On a nice note, I had some people at the restaurant I went to dinner for buy me dinner for being what I am. It was very nice of them, it's...
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Greetings all, I'm coming to you via a hotel room in Payson AZ. currently out here working a fire that got kicking yesterday. Don't know how long it will lat, hopefully the full tour of two weeks, definitely could use the money. Well that's all I have for now, days are long and sunny.

The original by a master:

this cover isn't too bad either

then theres this song

and also these songs that gets stuck in my head on the way to a fire



anyway, been on a few fires, things are getting busy that way, hopefully more so soon.

So today at work. First I go for a run, which was nice, I needed that, I actually find peace in a good run. Then, it was downtown-ish to the interagency fire office for the annual incident commander meeting. This lasted all day long.
Mostly doom and gloom. One of the big topics was the seasonal hiring, by mandate of way above us, like the...
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watch out, two blogs one night, and this is what happens when I drink Texas beer, I revert back to days of my past growing up.






...I need to go dancing

its a sad night for cable tv when the only interesting thing is porn, granted while porn is always interesting, one cannot watch it 24/7 other wise you start watching weird shit like my boss