West Zone Fire Crew, Umpqua Crew 3, Stone Mountain Fire Protection LLC, Wyoming Hotshots
Continue readingFire crews and organizations produce videos summarizing their activities in 2020; Volume 5
Midewin Engine 611, Tribal Fire Crew 42, Golden Eagles Hotshots, & Joe Demers
Continue readingFire crews and organizations produce videos summarizing their activities in 2020; Volume 4
White Earth Reservation, Midewin Hotshots, Iron Mountain Handcrew, Folsom Lake Veterans Crew, & Del Rosa Hotshots
Continue readingFire crews and organizations produce videos summarizing their activities in 2020; Volume 3
Lone Peak Hotshots, Entiat Hotshots, Engine 2401 crew, Diamond Mountain Hotshots, & Snake River Hotshots
Continue readingFire crews and organizations produce videos summarizing their activities in 2020; Volume 2
Mill Creek Hotshots, Idaho City Hotshots, Baker River Hotshots, & Feather River Hotshots
Continue readingFire crews and organizations produce videos summarizing their activities in 2020; Volume 1
NIFC, Fire Photo Girl, Santa Lucia Crew 7, & Country Fire Authority
Continue readingVideos by crews — highlights of the 2017 wildfire season
Above: Screenshot from Zachary Larsen’s video, Utah County Fire, 2017.
(Originally published at 1:45 p.m MT February 28, 2018)
At the end of the wildfire season many fire crews put together a video highlighting some of their year. Here are some examples we ran across.
More videos below — Continue reading
NIFC releases 2016 fire season summary video
Last week the National Interagency Fire Center released a video that they say summarizes the 2016 wildland fire season. The short version is, the season underperformed compared to the early predictions.
The acronym seen in the film, “WFSTAR”, stands for Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher.
Fire season summaries on Wildfire Today are tagged fire season summary.
Wildfire crews create end-of-season video summaries
Above: Crow Peak Fire, south of Spearfish, SD, June 27 2016. Photo by Bill Gabbert
We have found five videos created by Hotshot Crews that show some of the highlights of their 2016 season fighting wildfires.
After you view them, take the poll at the bottom — which do you like best?
The first is from the Geronimo Hotshots.
Next, the Baker River Hotshots:
And, the Midewin Hotshots:
The Mad River Hotshots:
Wyoming Hotshots:
Take the poll
Which video do you like best? Let us know by choosing an answer in the poll below — then click on the hard to see “vote” box below.
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The last day to take the poll will be July 1, 2017.
Video summary of the 2015 wildfire season
The National Interagency Fire Center has released a video summary of the 2015 wildfire season. It is designated as one of the films that are part of the official wildland fire refresher for this year — one of the 11 that we are aware of.