MY FIRST FIRE!!!

Today was a day of excitement for me- my first fire... we got the call at 5pm that someone was reporting a smoke. We drove there, all in our NOMEX gear and our equipment in the truck.

We were driving down the lane way and some lady in her truck met us in her truck yelling "i'm the culprit! i'm the culprit!" and she was exclaiming that she didn't know she wasn't supposed to be burning and her neighbour came over and told her and she was putting it out now.

So much for my excitement! Hahaha. We rolled up to the cabin and there was a guy there with a garden hose putting out the fire. It was a decent sized pit though, 5 metres in diameter. So my crew boss took the garden hose and put it out. I kicked around some stumps and branches to mix up the ashes. We were there for like 30 mins, soaked the fire with the garden hose and then left.

My exciting first fire under my belt! Less exciting than I thought but still cool.

And more exciting news! :) I'm going to Pickle Lake tomorrow until Wednesday. A lot of the base is going to a course so my crew is going there to cover the alerts. It's super dry up north too so I'm hoping we'll get on another fire!!! I think we're staying in a motel in Pickle Lake (well THE motel). We're driving there tomorrow, apparently it's 6 hours from here. It'll be awesome to see another base and maybe get on a fire!

All in all, great day for me today! And it was gorggggggggeeeeous! 22 degrees and SUNNY! Awesome :)

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