Jackson Hotshots 2021 Fire Season

Some of the highlights captured this season.Be safe and thank you for all the support.
Music:
KALEO - Hot Blood
R.L. Burnside - Someday Baby
Frankie Laine - Rawhide

[@danielstone246]

I'm so freaking proud of these people

[@alexpade648]

FC g non

[@WagonBurner1868]

My first year was a Type2 IA crew and they required bloused trousers ( tucked into the boot) so i did as I was told. during mop up i step in a stump hole ( rookie mistake) super hot but was fine. next season went Hotshot, no blousing requirments, while dripping on a back burn i stepped into a root hole which A. let the team know the back burn was not far enough back. B. blouse my boots ALWAYS... i have scars from that which i remember working the line thru the pain. And i love the reminder that no one gave a shit about their pain or mine we just got it done. Today in my office job people are soo physically and emotionally sensitive it makes me sick. i love my brothers and sisters who know their sibling, the fire, so intamently that they fight and enjoy it at the same time. That is something nobody can take from us. Wildland firefighters no matter your level, once you honestly feel that passion and work ethic when dealing with fire it will never leave you. I still claim it as my best job ever!

[@ryanforster8761]

i want to try this.

[@toxicfire2105]

🤟🏽

[@emmanuelawosusi3276]

Can I use pull on/cowboy style boots, that can be used for wild land firefighting ?

[@WagonBurner1868]

@@emmanuelawosusi3276 zero buddy... but differrnt agencies have different requiments

[@emmanuelawosusi3276]

@@WagonBurner1868 so yes

[@firefighter2202]

I'm a fireman of the wild, from Russia, Siberia

[@romanvermot4924]

Hope the war’s not making your job more difficult !

[@aniquinstark4347]

Thank you for doing your job. Forests give us clean air so we must protect them from fires all around the world.

[@Brian_yeah_that_brian_Strang]

Whoop whoop. Excellent work

[@sir.willthur5428]

Can’t believe I’m saying this… I used to completely hate hot shots. Y’all are mostly mean as fuck at first, but I finally found a good crew worth joining. Shout out to Pioneer Peak hot shots. Only crew so far I see possibly worth joining. Some of the best training I’ve ever had.

[@ryanforster8761]

props.

[@curtisthomas3028]

I’m in

[@jackf1557]

o7

[@firefighter2202]

Я лесной пажарный, из России

[@damiencass8156]

UAP at 6:31-6:33 Edit: I’m aware

[@DavidElzeitsinfill]

The wild fires are made much larger and out of control because everything is so dry. There isn't enough moisture in the soil, there isn't enough moisture in the vegetation. One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it. The natural water cycle can't refill aquifers that were filled thousands of years ago by melting glaciers after the last ice age. Big problems need big solutions. The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions. A better future is possible,

[@danielstone246]

So how we gonna do this?

[@danielstone246]

This will cost billions.

[@DavidElzeitsinfill]

@@danielstone246 Political will is the biggest hurdle to accomplishing big projects. Especially in California and after blowing $100 billion on a high speed train to nowhere. I think it is obvious to most people that something drastic needs to be done to solve the water problem and that conservation only goes so fare. I would propose to fund the tunneling part of this solution with a system similar to the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund is a type of permanent fund called a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). SWFs are typical government funding tools. They consist of investments and assets that the government is not allowed to cash out or deplete. However, while it can't touch the principal, the government normally has the right to spend any revenue these investments generate on appropriate functions and expenses. Each state, California, Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and of course Wyoming could place a small 2% tax on the energy sector and use those funds to invest in Geothermal energy projects and eventually the aqueduct can link up to those projects. There are already over 800 geothermal energy projects in California alone. The equation for my big solution is (ocean water brought inland through large underground aqueducts + combination geothermal and desalination plants = clean water and clean energy).