Northern California

Both Salt Lake 1 and Salt Lake 2 just finished 5 days on the Corn Creek Fire with Edward Arriola as our Division Supervisor Trainee on division B (Bravo). After a couple of days of securing the fireline, mopup, and a bit of monitoring, the fire was declared contained last night and turned back over to the local district for management. All of the new firefighters got a good introduction to desert firefighting with steep, rocky, sandy terrain, rH in the single digits, classic fire camp food, and sleeping next to power generators in camp.

We were both able to put a bunch of miles on the new 4-wheelers scouting old logging roads, moving water to the crews, and escorting BAER (Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation) team members.

Last night we all received resource orders to Operations Northern California. Apparently there are a number of new starts and an incident management team is being assembled to manage resources and suppress the fires. After demobing last night, we are all on the road. Salt Lake 2 will be stopping in Magna to make some personnel arrangements before heading west towards Reno, while Salt Lake 1 has chosen a route through Las Vegas and then north on CA-5.

Engine 301 and 302 have been enroute since yesterday. Both crews anticipate arriving sometime on monday.

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