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Ernest & Rodney, Inmate Crew, Day 13-2009 Shasta Complex Fire, California

Ernest & Rodney, Inmate Crew, Day 13-2009 Shasta Complex Fire, California

Inmate crews work alongside wildland firefighters often performing the same 16 hour shifts expected of their counterparts. The Chalk Fire spread through a remote area near Mount Shasta that caused the evacuation of a number of small communities outside of Burney. I was granted media access through CalFire and couldn’t believe the weight of the camera equipment’s effect on sliding through ash in 100-degree heat in the same orange NOMEX suit as the personnel.

2008 Angel Island Fire, San Francisco Bay, California 2000 Cerro Grande Fire, Los Alamos, New Mexico-9 years later Keith Satterfield, Wildland Firefighter, Site of 2009 Lake Entiat Fire, Wenatchee, Washington 2008 Royce Butte Fire, Crescent Lake Junction, Oregon-4 months later 2011 Norton Point Fire, Bear Creek, Wyoming 2008 Tea Fire, Montecito, California-8 days later 2008 Tea Fire, Montecito, California-8 days later 2009 Pacheco Fire, West of Los Banos, California 2002 Biscuit Fire, Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Oregon-7 years later Ernest & Rodney, Inmate Crew, Day 13-2009 Shasta Complex Fire, California 2011 Motor Fire, Sonora Pass, Sierra Nevada, California American River, California 2009 Arnica Fire, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming-2 Years Later 2002 Rodeo-Chediski Fire, Show Low, Arizona-6 years later Jim Paxon, Chief Information Officer on Rodeo-Chediski Fire, Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico 1998 Oso Complex Fire, Vicinity of Los Alamos, New Mexico-11 Years Later 1902 Yacolt Burn, Washington-107 years later Yosemite National Park, California Wildfire near Cloudcroft, New Mexico after which the unitentional arsonist eventually took his own life 2003 B & B Complex Fire, Central Cascades, Oregon-6 years later Bill Smith, Wildland Firefighter, Site of 2008 Double Day Fire, Oregon-4 months later 2008 Martin Fire, Bonny Doon, California-1 year later 2009 49er Fire, Auburn, California-3 days later Flagstaff, Arizona 2008 Summit Fire, Santa Cruz Mountains, California-3 months later 2009 Picacho Fire, Vicinity of Dunken, New Mexico-2 weeks later 2011 Wildfire-Vicinity of Comanche National Grassland, Colorado Los Angeles, California Art Arias, Incident Command, Site of 2008 Kincaid Fire, Outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico-9 months later From the Lookout Tower, Old Fire in Wenatchee National Forest, Washington 1933-51 Tillamook Burn, Oregon-58 years after last fire