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A strike team (that's five fire engines) leaves the Butler Fire camp to assist on a new fire near Beaver Creek in Hoopa on Aug. 21. Along with help from helicopters from the Corral Complex, they'll have it out before days' end.
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FireDAWG is a private company that provides printing and copying services at the sites of disasters, like wildfires. Chelsea Quigley works in the trailer at one of the Butler fire camps.
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The Operations yurt is where they decide how to attack the fire. It's full of maps of the fire showing different information.
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Just off of Highway 96, a house is still standing in the wreckage of the extinguished Dance Fire.
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Butler Fire Public Information Officer Joe Mazzeo photographs the damage done to his rental car by a falling rock.
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Every fire camp is equipped with pallets of water and Gatorade, to replenish tired firefighters' electrolytes.
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The food served in fire camp is specially formulated to firefighters' nutritional needs. Firefighters burn between 7,000 and 8,000 calories a day working on the fire, and so the meals are always large.
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Every day at around 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., all personnel gather around the briefing area to receive the latest updates on the fire, the weather and get their tasks for the day.
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Required supplies for going out into the fire zone include: fire resistant shirt and pants, radio, hardhat, gloves and a fire shelter (just in case).
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Fire information staff put regular fire updates around town.
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The supply area, which has taken over the tennis courts in Veterans Park, has just about everything you'd need to fight a fire.
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Medical crews prepare a utility vehicle, so they can navigate the treacherous terrain in case of a medical emergency.
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Fire crews and support personnel sleep in tents scattered around the park and sports field.
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Fire camp is always connected to the outside world. They even have Wi-Fi.
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Shawn Doggar takes a break from supervising Division Whiskey on the fire line.
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High on a ridge above Highway 299, crews clear a line to try to stop the Corral Complex.
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Fire crews cleared a fire line through the new growth that's filled in since the 1999 Megram Fire.
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A 6,000-gallon water tank lies in wait for the fire to rush up the ridge.
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Safety officer Kevin Morris of Roseville, near Sacramento, oversees the safety for Division X-ray.
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Part of the reason the Corral Complex poses such a challenge is because of all the dead standing fuel left by the Megram Fire. These burnt dead trees are also unstable and could fall on fire crews.
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FireDAWG is a private company that provides printing and copying services at the sites of disasters, like wildfires. Chelsea Quigley works in the trailer at one of the Butler fire camps.
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