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In the United States, a Shot Crew, officially known as an Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC), is a team of 20-25 elite wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priority fires across the country and abroad. They are assigned to work the most challenging parts of the fire and are considered strategic and tactical wildland fire experts.
Lone Peak Hotshots must be nationally available for dispatch for at least 180 days of the year and seasonal crewmembers may work up to 365 days. [11] Crewmembers are expected to be in excellent physical condition throughout the fire season and work an average of 150-160 days during a 6-month season.
At least four incarcerated firefighters have died on the front lines and, during a five-year period, more than 1,000 needed hospital care, according to the ACLU report. The pathway to becoming a ...
On November 1, 1966, the El Cariso Hotshots, a U.S. Forest Service Interregional Wildland Firefighting Hotshot crew, was trapped by flames as they worked on a steep hillside in Pacoima Canyon on the Angeles National Forest. An unanticipated upslope wind came up in the afternoon and a spot fire was fanned and funneled up the steep canyon.
Of course, as attractive as the Philippines might sound, the country does lie 8,000 miles from the West Coast of the United States. ... learn about more of the best countries to retire in this year.
The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013.On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of firefighters within the Prescott Fire Department.
Prices have increased 3.2% over the last year, according to the July Consumer Price Index (The release of August data is scheduled for Sept. 13). The most expensive and least expensive states vary ...
Last year, Florida opted not to extend YSI’s contract to oversee Thompson Academy, the facility where Jerry Blanton had blown the whistle and lost his job eight years earlier. In a letter to YSI sent in summer 2012 , the state told the company that the contract would end because the DJJ was “moving away from large institutional models ...