Trailer 1 and Redrock Fire

On July 17th, 2009, Salt Lake 1 and 2 got their first dispatch a full month and a half into the fire season! The Trailer 1 and Red Rock fires were believed to be started at 2:13 p.m. July 15 by a trailer being towed with a flat tire on U.S. 395 along the border of CA and NV. Both crews got 5 days out of the fires, with the fires totaling over 12,000 acres. The big news of the fire was an infection of Norovirus spreading across camp. Believed to be carried in the water, the virus infected 10 members from Crew 2 but Crew 1 managed to get out with no infections. After the crews got home, all personnel on the fires were quarantined for four days.

2009 Annual Training

Another successful two week training period. Nearly all crewmembers made it through red card, saw class, urban interface, land navigation, radios, incident command system, and leadership classes. Only a few overuse injuries (nothing that can't be cured with a little or a lot of ibuprofin and some weekend couch time), no problems passing the state tests, and our red cards arrived in Magna friday afternoon.

So all Wildland Resources will be available nationally on monday morning, June 1st, at 0600. Looks like the "sit report" is slowly starting to come alive but we have an overnight project lined up for next week near Hardware Ranch.

Quadrennial Fire Review

See NIFC website for news and reports on the upcoming fire season. Here are the results of the quadrennial fire review
http://www.nifc.gov/QFR/index.htm

2009 Employment

UFA Wildland Bureau is now accepting applications for the 2009 wildland fire season. An application is available on the Unified Fire Authority website (http://www.unifiedfire.org/) under "opportunities."

The application will also be available soon on our wildland bureau site. We are currently experiencing technical difficulties posting it there.