This is a call to action for all wildland firefighters, their friends, family, and the communities they serve. Please sign the petition to tell the legislators time is running out!
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#TrafficAlert in @CountyElDorado: 🚨Westbound & eastbound U.S. Highway 50 CLOSED🚧 @ Echo Summit due to rock slide.⚠️US-50 is scheduled to be CLOSED for the rest of the day (3/3). No ETO. Use Interstate 80 or State Routes 89, 88 & 49. #KnowBeforeYouGo@CHP_Truckee@CaltransDist10
A black bear known as Hank the Tank has broken into more than two dozen California homes since July, officials say. Paintballs, bean bags, sirens and Tasers cannot keep the 500-pound animal from seeking leftover pizza and other food. https://t.co/um5y7p2B1L
Robby Burns is a hotshot snowboarder...literally. The @ShastaTrinityNF hotshot competes in tonight's parallel giant slalom at the winter #Olympics. Watch for him at 7 p.m. PST. https://t.co/BNTfn9FdxB 📷 Steve Kornreich/U.S. Ski & Snowboard, Amy Sussman/Getty Images, USFS.
In this episode, the second of a two-part series, we continue our conversation with the Eldorado Hotshots. Learn how a longer, more intense wildfire season can impact wildland firefighters as they protect communities and natural resources from high-intensity wildfire.
check out my supt explaining what we do when we go to fires. Not a lot of people know what a Hotshot is or what we do, but here’s one of the best definitions. So proud to be apart of the Eldorado Hotshots.
In this episode, the first of a two-part series, we catch up with the Eldorado Hotshots to learn what a Hotshot crew is and how they protect communities and natural resources from high-intensity wildfire.
During this I burn I watched a photographer trip over hose into a dozer berm, dig his elbow into the dirt and then play it off and keep taking pictures😂 I respect it
Hotshots Ryan Almond (center) and Sam Unterbach (left) use drip torches to fight the #CaldorFire with fire.
They're with the El Dorado Hotshots, one of several crews who lit the unburned forest behind homes in Meyers on Tuesday after the fire jumped 89.
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Hotshots Ryan Almond (center) and Sam Unterbach (left) use drip torches to fight the #CaldorFire with fire.
They're with the El Dorado Hotshots, one of several crews who lit the unburned forest behind homes in Meyers on Tuesday after the fire jumped 89.
More photos👇