Firefighters in the Sequoia National Forest in California conducted their annual fire refresher training February 23 through 27 at the Porterville Air Attack Base. These photos were taken by Raul Contreras.
Sequoia National Forest firefighters’ annual refresher
In that picture. ..there is 450 firefighters.
qualified, crewbosses, class C fallers, fft1,ict5 , fft2
My first impression that’s a lot of Fire Fighters for the Sequoia.
things have changed sense the mid 60’s when I was there.
we probably would have only mustered 20% of that group.
Of course only 1 Engine per district and 4 Helicopters with maybe 3 patrolman per district. We still saw a lot of Fire. I think they have what 4 Hot Shot Crews now. 50 years latter things have changed.
How many folks are we looking at in this photo?
New Wildfire Today contest?
Good points. Anyone feel like counting the folks in this photo? Click on it to see a larger version.
Can any wildland fire organization assemble more firefighters than this in a photo? During peacetime, that is….not at a fire.