Utah - 2000

Above is a satellite picture of the wetsern U.S.  The brown and orange clouds are smoke.  The white clouds are the thunderstorms that started the fires.

Never sleep while on the fire line.  You never know what will happen.

While constructing fire line, we saw the spotter helicopter, but he didn't see us.  This is what followed him over ridge.

We backfired from our handline to widen the fireline should the fire make a run at us.

Even with sparse fuel, fire burns quite well in low humidity.

As we begin backfiring, the head of the fire comes over the ridge.

This is the westard view atop the west flank of the Manti La Sal fire.

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