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Pike Hotshot crew Archive
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Magical Night Burnout
Posted on August 31, 2010 | 1 CommentWhen I worked as a forest firefighter on the Pike Hotshot Crew, we lit backfires to stop the main fire in its tracks. We often did these “burnouts” during... -
Hotshot Love: a short story about love and fire, Part 2
Posted on February 12, 2010 | 3 CommentsDogCanyon will publish this story serially, in four parts. To read Part 1, click here. That day we fought fire on the Lady’s Professional Golf Association Golf Course. That’s something... -
More Legend Than Man: Luke Austin
Posted on October 13, 2009 | 1 CommentImpossible to talk about my firefighting buddy Luke Austin without sounding like a teller of tall tales. And it must be said that Austin would fit in better... -
Jenny Jackson Won’t You Change Your Mind
Posted on September 24, 2009 | 6 CommentsThe following song tells the mostly true story of an effort to publish my novel, The Gods of Fire, which is based on my experiences as a forest firefighter on... -
Where is Mark O’Shea?: A Forest Firefighter Misses Her Pal
Posted on September 18, 2009 | 4 CommentsJust before my elite, twenty-man Pike Hotshot crew of forest firefighters received a dispatch to the Angeles National Forest in Southern California, Mark O’Shea bought a new pair... -
Bob Schroeder: King of Southern California Fire
Posted on September 13, 2009 | 4 CommentsThe first season I fought forest fires on the elite “type 1” Pike Hotshot crew, my squad boss Bob Schroeder talked about Southern California as if it was...