Our Boulder Mountain Wildfire Crews have been out fighting wildfires in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado this summer. They have been dispatched as both Engine Crew and Handcrew firefighters. Pictured here is one of our Handcrew firefighters whose job may be to construct firelines to contain the fire by removing the fuels that wildfires need to spread, burn out the fire or finish by mopping up after fires. In another fire, they received support from an air tankers whose drops of fire retardant were able to reduce the intensity and spread rate. At yet another fire, it was necessary to helicopter in and drop our Handcrew in remote areas with steep slopes to better fight the wildfires, as shown with this crew photo.
