What happened?

The creek fire.... Almost 400,000 acres... 380,000... Ha 100 acres!

100 acres? 😅

Thanks for the briefing. I am always thinking what if. Where is safety? What is the risk? How intense can it burn? How much do I know of the situation? Always maintain board situational awareness, if you loose it go back to safety and rebuild your situational awareness. Never watch a video like this and think it can't happen to you. Some of the most experienced people in the world of fire have died when they have lost that situational awareness.

California does one thing really well 100% of the time.....trains completely reliable fire fighters who always communicate everything you have to know in 5 seconds or less.

9:47 My thoughts exactly. Whoever suggested turning around made a critical error.

I was on this fire

Rotating plume! Very dangerous

They should have never been there in the first. This was a sad, sad story. A lack of situation awareness by the IMT put these folks in harms way to do a task that was later going to be done by heavy equipment anyway. I have walked walk more canyon and seen the crosses. It will break your heart. It was an transition day for the IMT and nobody was paying attention to the fire behaviour. There were indicators that this was going to happen and the only person who picked up on it was Paul Gleason who pulled his crew out. He was unaware there was anyone else in there.

How many women or are there any women on these crews who are not the pilot?

People need to see this. Most don't understand the violence, intense heat of a wind blown bushfire/wildfire. People cant comprehend that this much heat creates its own weather. Stay safe all firefighters. 🔥❤❤❤

Air attack sounds like a douche

I thought there was a can in the garage on that wire shelf🤷🏻‍♂️

Does anyone know the owner of this channel?

Does anyone know the owner of this channel? Facebook and site links not working.

I couldn't tell from the video, but the right side of the column looked like one half of a counter-rotating vortex. Which means extreme fire behavior. Already obvious by the flame length.

Did the green type 3 get out? Looked like it hadn't moved yet??

The lady looks like linda Hamilton termanater 2 thats cool.... great video 👍👍👍

Bullshi

Thoses dangerous STIHL caps should be banned ,I’ve had petrol & oil down my leg many times

They just bad design

I hate those caps too

21:39,..Oboe playing indicates something ominous, something BAD is about to happen….

Scary situation to be in but glad they have made it through. Props to the dozer operator for operating till he couldn't no more.

As a Navy Corpman among a group of Corpsmen our praactice was, when we failed to start an IV or draw blood with two tries we would turn the task over to another Corpsman. Two strikes & out. DOUG out

This is merely a USFS sponsored feel-good video. The Perryville Crew fatalities were due to their Crew Boss leaving the Crew without proper supervision during a critical period. And we could have easily saved Zane Grey Cabin if allowed to continue our firing operation. Zane Grey Cabin burned from the top down due to embers based on the unburned trees left behind. The IMT lied about us foaming it down! We moved to the Tonto Creek Fish Hatchery and successfully fired that out with minimal structure loss.

I remember watching this as a stupid kid in the notorious 'California Conservation Corps' 🐻 and when they showed the white, glowing hand tools, I was like hooooly crap this shit is electricccc!! 🔥🌲🪓

Maybe not for this event, but from my little student's chair it looks like Firefighters need their own hand signals to communicate when all they can do is see their target. Radio out, Locomotive fire sound, across the gorge/draw/ etc. [Not fine hand configurations ... but arm and hand signals. Military Special ops have theirs for close in contact ... Look at the Indian Sign Language and the sign language for the deaf as a start point ... but get set signals to communicate standard messages in deployment situations.

I hope the fire shelters now have versions that keep their structural integrity in water and wave action. I wonder if some sort of chain mail material made of { ?] might keep things together

It seems like 9 out of 10 times a line of vehicles gets stuck like this because vehicles in the front of the convoy take their gd time. You'd think "moving with a sense of urgency" when the fire is coming wouldn't necessarily need to be taught, but apparently it does.

That’s crazy. I was literally in Kohl’s Ranch when that happened. We were woken up and had to evacuate into Payson. Raining ash was exactly what I saw too. 9:03

It was only one strike that started the fire. I literally watched it happen from diamond hill. We were with the wildlife department working on a fire line for a planned future controlled burn.

That sound of fire. Making a run. Like a frieght train.

website dead it seems, too bad!

as a burn survivor of a house fire when I was a baby, I have always respected all firefighters of all types. from the pilots and dozer operators all the way to the smokejumpers and line peeps. thank you all.

why does this all sound like a Hollywood movie? people don't really write or talk like this, do they?

Amazing story. Your training certainly saved your lives. You said: " I never knew anyone who survived in a shelter." Well Sir, you do now ;)

One of the lessons must be to block new build property development in wildland areas. The houses they died protecting are recently built. Did the property developers think about the fire risk? Have they made a donation to the families of the fallen and injured?

Like being a burger on the grill. What a terrifying situation.

Allison, is hands down one of the best Fire people I have ever had the opportunity to work with.

It looks like they waited too long to deploy their shelters. Panic? On another video I noticed they were having problems with the yellow strap while trying to deploy. It seems we need more research for shelters so they can be deployed quicker and they don't delaminate. One of the things that helped a crew member on the other fire was that he dug a hole for his face and rested his chin on his pile of dirt.

That was unacceptable from a safety standpoint. How you let firefighters be on the fire line with even the remote possibility of such dynamic weather… The instability that had to been present should’ve been a clear warning not to have firefighters on line. Did we learn a thing from Yarnell Hill or any of the other countless times we’ve lost multiple firefighters because of weather related disaster on the fireline. Be it burn over, falling snags from strait line winds, or nearly in this case a tornado… Glad to see everyone made it out okay but that was only by blind luck.

So the guy worked himself so hard his muscles failed, dumping CPK in mass… that’s saying something in and of itself

Tommy’s shelter wasn’t going to take much more… Glad you are all here with us.

The man that's talking when it starts looks mad ..😊

It’s nice people helping out but the guy stays behind with his wife to fight a fire with a couple 5 gallon buckets is really stupid. If you live in that area then invest in some actual equipment. If not then evacuate and don’t become a liability for firefighters having to come save your ass. Putting others peoples lives at risk for things that can be rebuilt.

What an amazing and brave young woman.

Um, NO. Just DO NOT GET OUT OF YOUR TRUCK if there are ANY communication snafus or inadequacies. Those are what get firefighters killed.

In these remote area fires who cares just let em burn out if no life or structure etc are in danger...makes no sense to me!