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Firefighting { 26 images } Created 4 Jan 2013

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  • Hidden fires move slowly down a canyon as smoke settles in the cool, evening air at the Basin Complex Fire, near Carmel Valley, California.
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  • Smoke from the Rim Fire, a huge wildfire outside Yosemite National Park, forms a huge plume over the land as seen from an airplane window.
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  • A firefighting helicopter flies into thick smoke, a dangerous maneuver without visability in hilly territory, at the La Brea Fire in California. Firefighters are constantly balancing the risks of flying at night, in smoke or high wind, with the benefits of being able to use air support to fight fire.
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  • Turbulent 20-foot flames from burning chaparral bushes race uphill at nighttime controlled burn at the Station Fire near Los Angeles.
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  • A helicopter drops red fire retardant on the advancing fire to slow it while bulldozers finish fire breaks further down the canyon at the La Brea Fire, California.
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  • The Texas Canyon Hotshots hitch a ride from the fire line to their trucks during the evening shift change at the La Brea Fire.
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  • A firefighter of the Texas Canyon Hotshots at the La Brea fire in the Los Padres National Forest, California.
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  • A firefighter of the Texas Canyon Hotshots at the La Brea fire in the Los Padres National Forest, California.
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  • The Groveland Hotshots march in single file toward the safe zone after clearing a fire break in preparation for controlled burning.
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  • A Dalton Hotshot firefighter clears a three foot (90cm) line down to bare soil around an errant fire that has jumped the fire break. Much of the dangerous work is performed by elite ground crews in steep terrain with 55 lb. (25 kg) packs, 25 lb.(11 kg) chainsaws, shovels and rakes, and two gallons (3.78 l) of water for a ten hour shift.
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  • A woman on the Chuchupati Flight Crew 530 uses her "Pulaski" tool to clear a circle around a spot fire that jumped over the fire break at the La Brea Fire.
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  • Embers burn hot even after a helicopter water drop during the La Brea fire in the Los Padres National Forest in California. Chaparral burns hot and fast with 20 foot flame lengths, and a water drop can cool an area enough to allow firefighters on the ground to cut a fire line around fire to stop it.
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  • A helicopter drops water to cool a spot fire so Forest Service Hotshots can put it out by hand.
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  • A fire engine crew member hauls lengths of firehose up a steep hill through the brush to bring water to a spot fire that has jumped the fire break. The water is used to cool the fire so that a ground crew can clearcut line around the blaze and cover the embers with dirt.
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  • Daniel Diaz, a sawyer in the Kern Valley Hotshots, ends the day carrying his 25 lb (12 kg) chainsaw up a hill after clearing heavy brush around a spot fire at the La Brea Fire.
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  • Bryan Rosenow directs a helicopter dropping redardent at the La Brea fire.
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  • Ukonom Hotshot exiting the buggy after a day of work.
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  • Ukonom Hotshots at the end of their day on the La Brea Fire in the Los Padres National Forest.
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  • Ukonom Hotshots at the end of their day on the La Brea Fire in the Los Padres National Forest.
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  • Ukonom Hotshots at the end of their day on the La Brea Fire in the Los Padres National Forest.
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  • Texas Canyon Hotshots firefighters crowd into an available truck for a ride from the fire line to their staging site as they head to camp after the evening shift change.
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  • Joseph Darling of the Kern Valley Hotshots watches the fire line at the end of the day during the La Brea Fire in California.
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  • Glowing smoke fills the sky and sparkling embers dot the hills as night settles on the La Brea Fire in the Los Padres National Forest, California.
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  • Flame from the fire he has just lit chases a Vista Grande Hotshot firefighter uphill to the safe zone during a night burning operation, an attempt to cut off the main fire, at the Station Fire near Los Angeles.
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  • A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 drops a load of retardant on the Station Fire near Los Angeles. The airtanker can carry 12,000 gallons of water or retardant, costs $41,000 per day, looks great on TV, and is best suited for flat terrain, not the steep, hilly canyons of the Station Fire.
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  • Burned forest from the Station Fire forms a backdrop for the storage shed of a water depot in the Angeles National Forest. The demand to protect structures built in forests (the "urban interface") rather than environmental concerns determines a great deal of wildfire management policy.
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