Fire!!!

Today we were out chainsawing, and on a ridge about 3000ft above us we saw smoke. Then we heard frantic radio traffic and saw helicopters and a small Helitack crew fly in and start dropping water, then we heard that the Forest Service was calling up the Mill Creek Hotshots, Big Bear Hotshots, Del Rosa Hotshots and the Mojave Greens. Which is a lot of people for a small fire, about 80-100 firefighters for a small fire, but we are having a huge drought so I guess they wanted to hit it hard. We almost thought they were going to call us up since we were in the area, but they didn't which is good. They got the fire out in about an hour which was cool to see, we sat two S.E.A.T's flying in with retardant (Single Engine Attack Tanker) which was pretty cool, and we saw the helicopters drop water quite a bit. It was really cool to see how the crews actually work.