Yesterday afternoon, we were dispatched to what went out as a house fire up near my brother's house. We were already en route
when it was changed from a house fire to a woods fire. That was
when I was really happy that I ended up on the tanker instead of the quint for once. The quint was placed back in service and they headed back to the station. Four of the guys who were on the quint ended up heading back out on one of our brush trucks while another got out our old brush truck.
We got on scene and headed up to the fire by climbing up and riding on the back of the brush units
that were already there. We got lucky and the fire was extinguished before it really took off. There
was probably less than an acre burned in all. It could have been worse
given that the winds were picking up yesterday.
Hopefully, we will not have woods fires today because the winds are pretty nasty outside right now.
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