please correct me if I am wrong hand crew - firefighters who beat wildfires to death with shovels and axes and pulaskis and chainsaws and weedwackers and leaf blowers and rakes and hoes and drip torches
hotshots - cohesive crew of 20 people - this is their primary job for the summer - they travel all around the usa - via plane and via crew carrier trucks type 2 agency crew - fire militia - this is the foresters and forest technicians of the federal and state level natural resources agencies - firefighting is a 2ndary duty for them - they might be fulltime yearrround employees (office jockeys) - but they only serve as firefighting handcrew members when their crew is activated to respond to a major fire - or maybe to a local fire as initial attack forces (on the first day of the fire) type 2 administrative hires - this is a crew of oncall folks - they are not regularly employed on any wildfire agency - possibly many of the Indian crews fall in this category - they only get activated when multi major wildfires are underway across the USA - on the other hand - PA and ME state forestry have oncall firefighters for engine crews iirc - so that is a variation on this theme some prisons have inmate hand crews - but apparently they are being phased out - calfire used to have maybe 50 of them - now maybe there are 20 - nevada and washington also have them iirc - maybe MT also - but these are state level crews - typically they do not go to fires out of state - maybe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKYd5sFnC3t3zmyBZ6ogRYyHSLb2%2BqtF4-f%2Bin%3DhQTbk8A%40mail.gmail.com.
